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LEPIDOPTERA (BUTTERFLIES). 



by a small band of silk as well as a caudal attachment. 

 England all Butterflies are day-iliers. 



In 



The Lanjc White (Pieris brassic(e). 



We may take the Large or Cabbage White (Pieris brassicce) 

 as a type. The fore-wings of this species are creamy-white, 

 with a broad black patch at the tip in the male ; in the female 

 there are also two black spots in the middle of the wings. The 

 undet-side of the front wings of both male and female is white, 

 with two black spots ; the posterior pale yellow with a fine 

 dusting of black. The eggs are laid on the under-surface of 

 cruciferous plants, yellow in colour, and are arranged in clusters 

 of twenty and thirty. The larvae (fig. 94) are greenish at first, 

 becoming bluish-green above, yellowish below, with a yeOow 



Fig. 95. — Green-veined White (Piei-is nnpi). 



1, Imago; 2, ovum; 3, larva; 4, ehvysalis ; 5, Ichneumon Plv (Hcmitchs iiulan- 

 arli's) : 6, natural size. (Curtis.) 



line along the back and at each side, spotted with black and 

 covered with pale hairs. They live especially upon the outer 

 leaves of cabbages. The chrysalis is pale greenish -grey spotted 

 with black, attached by the tail and by a silken cord around 

 the body to some fence, wall, or outhouse. There are two 

 broods, one in the early summer and another in the autumn. 



