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PLATE CCCCXLVI. 



PAPILIO BRASSICLE. 



LARGE GARDEN WHITE BUTTERFLY. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER, 

 Antennae terminating in a club : wings erect when at rest. Fly by 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings rounded, entire, white : tip of the upper pair in the male 

 -^lack, and in the female marked with two black fpots. 



Papilio Brassicje : alis anterioribus maculis duabus apicibusque 

 nigris, major. Linn. Fn. Suec. 1035. — Gmel. 

 Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2239. n. 15. 

 Fabr. Ent. Syji. 463. 1 10.— Fab. %?. Ent. S< 

 186. 574.— Spec. Inf. 2. 38. I6h 

 Roef Inf. 2. t. 4. 

 Ejper Schmet. t. 3.f. I. 

 Schaf. Icon. 40. /. 3. 4. and 140. f. 4. 5, 

 Geofr. inf. p. 2. p. 68. n. 40. 

 Wiau Schmetterl. p. 163. D. 2, 



In dry feafons favourable to the growth and increafe of ihefe perni- 

 cious infecls, the larvae become very injurious to our gardens, and 



would 



