Pierts obedacea, Bd. The Turnip Butterfly. 
The larvae of this species are pro¬ 
duced from small, yellowish, pear- 
shaped eggs, which are longitudinally 
ribbed. The worms appear in a week 
or ten days after the eggs are laid, 
and attain their full size in about 
three weeks; they are then about an 
inch and a half in length, of a pale 
green color, not easily distinguished 
from the cabbage leaves on which 
they feed. They are found on the 
Fig. 9. Turnip Butterfly and larva. Ulldei Side of the lea"\es, through 
which they eat numerous irregular holes. 
When they are about to transform, they leave the plants on which 
they have been feeding, and seek some sheltered spot under the 
edges of stones or palings where they change into the chrysalis 
stats 
They feed both on Cabbage and Turnip leaves. Found only in 
the northern part of the State. 
P ieris RAPiE, Linn. The European Cabbage Butterfly. 
Fig. 10. European Cabbage Butterfly—Male. Fig. 11. Female. 
As this too well known, introduced species, which does so much 
injury to our cabbages, has been fully described in my Fourth Report 
(9th Report of State Entomologist), and the various remedies tried 
and proposed, there given, only the description of the Caterpillar 
will be given here. 
This, when first hatched, is of a pale, glossy, yel¬ 
low color, and not more than one-tenth of an inch 
long. As it increases in size, it acquires a green 
color. It molts, or changes its skin, three times 
before it reaches its full growth. It is then of a 
uniform, rather pale green color, and from an inch 
to an inch and a quarter in length; the constrictions 
between the segments are not very distinct, the body 
appearing rather to be divided into numerous little 
rings, about six to a segment. It is everywhere cov¬ 
ered with fine, short, whitish hairs; interspersed 
among these are minute, black, conical tubercles, or 
elevated points. By examining with a magnifier, it 
will be seen that these points are arranged in rows 
