. Butterflies and moths at home and abroad [microform]. Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons nocturnes; Moths. If ifi i. Butterflies and Moths vdned White," but the under side hind wings are ahnost entirely invaded by deep dun green—this being of a decidedly darker hue in the spring form, beUidice, Och., than in the summer dapiidice. It need hardly be said that abroad it is not known as the " Bath ; The French call it the " Marbled Green " ; the Germans, the " Mignonette ; PlERIS NAPI. L., THE " GrEEN-VEINED WhITE," like the two followi
. Butterflies and moths at home and abroad [microform]. Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons nocturnes; Moths. If ifi i. Butterflies and Moths vdned White," but the under side hind wings are ahnost entirely invaded by deep dun green—this being of a decidedly darker hue in the spring form, beUidice, Och., than in the summer dapiidice. It need hardly be said that abroad it is not known as the " Bath ; The French call it the " Marbled Green " ; the Germans, the " Mignonette ; PlERIS NAPI. L., THE " GrEEN-VEINED WhITE," like the two following butterflies, is double- sometimes triple- brooded, and is almost as common; while the spring genera- tion is even more markedly different in appearance from that of the summer. In the spring male the black apical tips of the fore wing are small and grey; in the summer, larger and black, with a pronounced black spot in the middle towards the outer margin. In the spring form the nervures are whitish grey; in the summer, with the two spots well developed on the fore wings and an inner marginal blotch. The under side varies considerably. Usually the nervures are dusky green on a white, but sometimes clear yellow, ground, but the summer brood is marked much less decid'^dlj md whtu the dusky nervures are absent, or almost so, this is the var. napeece; the fine motmtain Continental form, of which the whole upper surface of the wings is suffused with dusky scales and dove colour to canary yellow, is called var. bryonice: but it is not taken in Britain, though common enough at low altitudes in Swedish Lapland. The yellowish-green eggs are laid on various Cruciferce, hedge garUc, etc. The larva is glaucous green, Ughter than that of P. rapa, and without the dorsal line of yellow; and the pupa, which in size and appearance resembles that of the " Small White," shows again consider- able variety in colour and marking according to surroundings. The first emergence takes place
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