THE 
Itaturalists’Ifluraal 
A Monthly Medium for Collectors and Students of Natural History. 
Address of Office: 369, EUSTON ROAD, LONDON, N.W. 
Vol. II. No. 17. NOVEMBER, 1893. Price 2d. 
A GLIMPSE AT THE CABBAGE AND 
SOME CABBAGE EATERS.* 
By H. Durrant. 
(Continued from page 2 g.) 
Part II. Some Cabbage Eaters. 
“ Lymnocharis, one who loves the lake. 
Crambophagus, cabbage eater.” 
Battle of the Frogs and Mice.— Pope. 
“We be cabbage eaters an’t please you.”— Anon. 
EFORE we commence this section let me remove all 
misapprehension that exists on the score of whether or not 
I intend introducing any member of the multifarious,mul¬ 
tiform and multifid multitude prowling about under the 
disguise of the genus homo. Distinctly and succinctly I aver 
that I do not. All my cabbage eaters will be found in the group 
designated as the Insecta, for when I speak of the cabbage eaters 
I mean predaceous ones that injure and destroy the succulent 
vegetable, before it can be placed at the service of man. 
First on the list of course is Pieris brassicce , the cabbage 
butterfly, to attempt to describe which I feel would be an insult 
to you as an avowed Entomological Society. I refrain. Pieris 
rapa, the small white must be conjuncted with the before men¬ 
tioned. Many remarks on this would also be quite as absurd. 
Again I refrain. 
Hardly so well known as the two preceding, though equally 
destructive are the Halticidon , a group of beetles, several species 
* 
Read before the North Kent Entomological and Natural History Society 
on March 1st, 1893. 
