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resembles, by being without the narrow dorsal line 

 of yellow. 



There is a smaller and darker variety of this 

 kind, the Caterpillar of which is at present unde- 

 scribed, in which the green mottlings of the under 

 sides of the hind-wings are of a much deeper green, 

 nearly approaching a tone of olive-brown. 



But the rarest and most beautiful of the genus 

 Pieris is that rarely-captured prize of the col- 

 lector, Tier is Daplidicce, popularly known as the 

 Bath White, and which is only taken in the vicinity 

 of the sea. The tips of the front or upper-wings are 

 marked with a small patch of bright black, che- 

 quered with squarish blotches of Avhite, and in the 

 centre of the same wings is a largish black mark, 

 divided by a white vein, these marks being green on 

 the under surface. The hind-wings are semi-trans- 

 parent, showing the shadowy form of the bright 

 green markings which decorate their under surface. 

 The Caterpillar is green, with fine stripes of yellow, 

 between which the green is spotted with black. 



In other genera there are also species of " White 

 Butterflies," which the careless observer might 

 confound with the Common Whites of the genus 

 JPieris. For instance, Euchloe Cardimines, the pretty 

 " Orange-tip" — the female of Avhich, being without 



