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GENUS I. BUTTERFLIES. 



SEC. IV. SR XXXI. SMALL GARDEN WHITE. 



PI. 26. 



Rapse. Linnaus. 



Small Garden White. Harris. 



This infect is likewife a troublefome peft to gardens. The caterpillars 

 fecrete themfelves in the folded leaves in the centre of the cabbage or cauli- 

 flower plants, and being of a pale green colour, are not eafily diftinguifhed. 

 There are two broods of thefe flies in the fummer : the firft appears on the 

 wing the beginning of May, from the chryfalides that have remained through 

 the winter 3 and the fécond is on the wing in July. The caterpillars from 

 thefe are at their full growth, as at fig. 1, the end of September. They then 

 feek a lhelter againll walls, pales, or fuch places; fix themfelves with a band 

 round the middle, and by the tail, in order to their metamorphofis ; and in a 

 day's time the chryfalis is perfect, as at fig. 1. In this ftate they remain all 

 the winter, till the middle of May, when the butterfly comes forth. It is 

 worthy of notice, that the butterflies bred in fummer are but fourteen days in 

 chryfalis, and that the later bred caterpillars lie many months in that ftate, 

 namely, from September till May. The male differs from the female in the 

 fpots on the wings, and is of a purer white colour: fee fig. 3. The female is 

 reprefented at fig. 4; and the under parts are feen at fig. 5. 



