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PLATE X.
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CHEQUERED WHITE.
BATH WHITE. SLIGHT GREENISH HALF-MOURNER.
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VERNOUN S GREENISH HALF-MOURNER.
Pontia daplidice, FABEICIUS. OCHSENHEIMEE. CURTIS.
Papilio daplidice, LINN^US. LEWIN. DONOVAN.
Pieris daplidice, SCHRANK. LATREILLE.
" " BOISDUVAL. ZETTERSTEDT.
Mancipium daplidice, STEPHENS. DUNCAN.
Synchloe daplidice, HUBNEE.
EXCEEDED though this lovely insect is by many of brighter
colouring, yet it needs not the additional enhancement of its
great rarity to make the collector exclaim, "Can imagination
boast, amid her gay creation, hues like these?" This is indeed
a prize in his harmless lottery; one which it falls to the lot
of but very few to gain. It must be a singularly fortunate day
in the year that is not a blank one in regard to the capture
of the Chequered White.
The Chequered White, or Bath White, is very common in
many of the southern parts of the continent of Europe, as
well as on the opposite coasts of Africa, in Barbary, and also
in Asia Minor, Cashmere, and no doubt in many other parts of
the Asiatic continent. It is mostly found in dry and sandy
situations.
In this country, as before pointed out, it is very rare. Ray
has recorded that it Avas formerly taken by Vernon, near Cam­
bridge; and Petiver that it was found near Hampstead. Lewin
says that one was taken near Bath—whence one of its names,
and that the fact had been chronicled by a young lady in
needlework, in which the fly was depicted. Haworth states that