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MARBLED WHITE. 35
margins, the third from the outer corner not having an eye,
and the eye near the inner corner being a double one. The
black markings are irrorated with buff.
The female is of considerably larger size than the male, and
the under surface of the wings is of a yellower hue.
Varieties occur, both accidental ones, and others that seem
to be permanent; some are quite of a cream yellow on the upper
side; others milk white.
One taken near Dover, recorded by the Rev. W T. Bree, in
the "Magazine of Natural History," vol. v, page 335, and which
is figured in the plate, is described as having the upper wings
nearly black, except a large white spot near the base, and
another divided into three by the veins at the lower edge of
the middle part of the fore wings. Underneath, all the wings
are clouded with black, and almost entirely without the usual
tesselated markings.
In some the black is much suffused over the greater portion
of the wings.
In others the black colour is changed into yellowish brown.
Another local variety has the black markings on the under
side of the hind wings exchanged for a very light buff, so
that the wings appear nearly white, and without the eyes.
The caterpillar is yellowish green, with a darker line down
the back and on each side.
The figures, excepting the one of the variety, are from speci­
mens in my own collection.