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THE LARGE WHITE CABBAGE BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Brassica. 
PLATE XLI, 
Papilio Brassicw, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p.759, No.75. Do- 
novan’s Brit. Ins. pl. 446.—Pontia Brassicm, Latreille. 
Tue wings are rounded and entire, of a pale 
yellowish white ; the posterior margins fringed ; the 
upper wings have a large patch of black at their tips, 
and three large black spots, the higher ones being 
near the centre, and the other beneath; the lower 
wings have a single black spot in the centre of their 
anterior edge ; the female marked with two black 
spots ; the body is black above, and yellow under- 
neath. 
The larva is of an ashen-gray above, and cream 
colour beneath, with a central line of yellow down 
its back, the colour of its back and belly being 
divided by a yellow line; the head is black; the 
whole upper surface is thickly speckled with irre- 
gular punctated black dots. 
In dry seasons, favourable to the growth and 
increase of these pernicious insects, the larvee be- 
come very injurious to our gardens, and would be 
infinitely more so, were it not for the number of 
