S-1141001_COMPLETO.pdf

PLATE IX.
GREEN VEINED.
Pontia napi, FABRICIUS. OCHSENHEIMER. CURTIS.
STEPHENS. DUNCAN.
Papilio napi, LINSLEUS. LEWIN. DONOVAN.
" " ALBLN. WILKES.
Pieris napi, SCHRANK. LATREILLE.
" BOISDUVAL. ZETTERSTEDT.
Ganoris napi, DALMAN.
Catophaga napi, HUBNER,
COMPARATIVELY plain as this insect is, yet, looking at it, as
at all others, with the eyes that the entomologist does, he will
always say, "Who can paint like nature?"
The Green-veined White is another of our most common
native species. It occurs about the middle of May, and also
in July, and is found in all situations—gardens, woods, lanes,
and fields.
The caterpillar feeds on different species of Brassica, Reseda,
Raphanus, and other plants.
This species varies greatly in size, some being only about
an inch and a half in width, and others as much as two. A
very small one, captured I believe by myself some years since,
and figured in the plate, is only an inch and a quarter across
the wings.
The wings are white, dusky black at the tips and the base;
and there is o-enerally a black spot not far from the outside
do-e of the fore wings. Some however have no spot whatever,
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or
the very faintest indication of one, which is more visible if
held up against the light. There are some small irregularly-
shaded triangular marks at the end of the nerves at the outside