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green turf of meadows, is the first joy and the first passion of 
children in the country. 

Fig. 144.—Pieris brassice. 
The caterpillar (Fig. 145) is of a yellowish green, or rather 
greenish yellow, with three yellow longitudinal stripes separated 
by little black points, from each of which 
springs a whitish hair. It lives in groups on 
the cabbages in gardens, and on many other 
Crucifere. It is so voracious that it consumes 
in a day more than double its own weight, and as 
it multiplies very quickly, commits great ravages 
in the vegetable garden. Its pupa (Fig. 145) is 
of an ashy white, spotted with black and yellow. 
The Pzeris rape, or Small white butterfly, 
differs but little from the preceding except in 
size. The caterpillar, which lives on the cab- 
bage, turnip, mignonette, nasturtium, &c., is 
green, with three yellow lines. It does not 
do these much harm. In France it is called 
ae ae le ver du ceur (the heart-worm), because it 
and Ciuysalis of penetrates in between leaves pressed closely to- 
gether. 
The Pieris napi, the Green-veined white, is very like the two 
preceding, but the wings, the lower ones especially, have under- 
neath broad veins or bands of a greenish colour. The Pieris 
callidice, the wings of which are white spotted with black, is 
common in the Alps of France, in Savoy and Switzerland, and 



