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PIERIDiE. 
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This family includes the Cabbage, the Sulphur and the Terias 
Butterflies so common throughout our State. The Caterpillars are 
finely pubescent, slightly attenuated toward each extremity, and are 
provided with sixteen legs. They feed upon the leaves of plants, 
chiefly Cruciferce (cabbage, turnips, etc.,) and Leguminosce (clover, 
cassia, etc.) They are never clothed with long hairs or spines, and 
are without the tentacles or scent organs. 
Some of the species are very injurious to cultviated vegetables. 
Pieris protodice, Bd. The Southern Cabbage Butterfly. 
Fig. 7. Southern Cabbage Butterfly. Fig. 8. Larva and Pupa. 
The larva of this species, when full-grown, averages 1.15 inches, 
the middle segments being the largest. Predominant color variable 
from green or bluish green to clear, pale blue, and at other times 
deep indigo or purplish blue; six transverse wrinkles on each seg¬ 
ment, the first and fourth being the widest; on these two wrinkles 
are four lpngitudinal yellow lines, equally distant from each other, 
and each interrupted by a pale blue spot; there are traces of two 
additional longitudinal lines immediately below the stomata, one on 
each side; on each transverse wrinkle is a row of shining, black, 
round, slightly-raised piliferous spots, from which proceed stiff, black 
hairs, the spots on the the first and fourth wrinkles being the 
largest, and more regularly situated than the others; venter some¬ 
what speckled with black, and rather lighter than the color above; 
head the same color as the body, covered with black piliferous 
spots, sometimes with a yellow or orange patch on each side; a 
pale blue ring sometimes found around the base of the black spots; 
feeds on cabbage and other allied plants; appears in July, August 
and September. 
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