Bulletin of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station . Fig. 8 —P(c/i,s Kfyxt. male. Fig. 9.—Pieris rapa, female; 8:> MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. liatches from a minute yellowish, ribbed egg and transforms to a palegreen chrysalis, covered with small black dots, (Fig. 7, f). The adultbutterfly is the common white or yellowish white species, with blackspots, as at Figures 8 and 9, seen flying about cabbage patches. The Cabbage Plusia (F/u-sia brassicce) is also a greencaterpillar Init is larger thanthe preceding and lighter incolor. It is marked withlighter longitudinal stri
Bulletin of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station . Fig. 8 —P(c/i,s Kfyxt. male. Fig. 9.—Pieris rapa, female; 8:> MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. liatches from a minute yellowish, ribbed egg and transforms to a palegreen chrysalis, covered with small black dots, (Fig. 7, f). The adultbutterfly is the common white or yellowish white species, with blackspots, as at Figures 8 and 9, seen flying about cabbage patches. The Cabbage Plusia (F/u-sia brassicce) is also a greencaterpillar Init is larger thanthe preceding and lighter incolor. It is marked withlighter longitudinal stripesand is very soft bodied andtender. It measures 2 inchesin length Avhen fnll-growai,(Fig. 10, a.) The egg from which ithatches is pale greenish yel-low in color, convex in shapeand two-hundredths of f^ninch in diameter. In trans-forming to pupa the caterpil-lar spins a delicate semi-trans-parent Aveb usually partly orqjitirely wrapping itself in a leaf, (Fig. 10, ^.) The adult insect is adark gray moth with a wing spread of al)out 1^ inches and marked witha bright silvery dot an
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