Beautiful Butter fixes. 61 



MARBLED WHITE. 



PLATE I. FIG. II. 



BriSSM, 



APILIO, or Hipparchia Galathea, is the Latin 

 name of this species. You will remember 

 what I told you about the genera into which 

 naturalists have divided the members of the animal and 

 vegetable kingdoms. Hipparchia is a genus of Butter- 

 flies including many species, of which this is the largest, 

 and perhaps also the handsomest ; most of the others 

 differ from it greatly in the colours of the wings, which 

 are brown of various shades, sometimes tinged with 

 red, and sometimes with dusky yellow. The Cater- 

 pillars are nearly always green, more or less marked 

 with yellow, and sometimes with red. They feed on 

 different kinds of grasses; that called the cat's-tail 

 grass being the favourite food of the larva of the 

 Marbled White, which obtains its English name from 

 having its wings chequered and veined as we sometimes 

 see marble; these wings, however, are not, strictly 

 speaking, white, but a pale yellow ; in some there is a 

 much greater proportion of black than in others. 



But we have got something more to say about the 

 scientific title. Hipparchus, we find, was the name of 



