IN LEAFY JUNE. 1S7 



piration of which time they have gorged suiScient 

 raw cabbage to attain a length of one and a lialf 

 inches. Then they leave the garden and resort to 

 the rocks or the fence, and spin thereon a tuft of silk 

 in wluch they place their hind feet ; a loop is then 

 spun in which they hang by the neck. After eleven 

 or twelve days have elapsed the 

 green worm has become a white 

 butterfly, ready to begin ou 

 the cabbage patch again ! 

 never see a white butter- 

 fly without a picture 

 arising in my mind 

 of a certain indig- 

 nant farmer, who 

 never missed an ojjpor- 

 tunity of flapping at ^^^ 

 one with his old gray Papilio turnus. 



felt hat, which the butterfly always managed to evade. 

 One of our largest and most beautiful butterflies 

 is the pale corn-yellow and rusty black one (the up- 

 per parts of the wings are marked with four descend- 

 ing black bars), with SAvallow-tailed wings, called the 

 tiger swallowtail {Papilio turnus).* Tliis hand- 

 some creature frequently measures four and a half 



* Jasoniades glaucus, Scudder. 



