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ORANGE TIPPED.
and the open pathway or riding in the wood; in the sunny
meadow and the cultivated garden.
The caterpillar feeds on the Cardamine impatiens, Turritis
glabra, Brassica campestris, and other plants.
The wings expand to the width of from one inch and three
quarters to two inches. Their ground colour is white; the
upper wings are black at the base, and have a black mark,
varying in shape, near the centre. The whole of the space
between this, and indeed from a little inside it to the tip, is
a lovely orange colour, bordered on the outside corner with
brownish black, irrorated with very minute orange specks, and
indented on the inner side. The hind wings are also black at
the base. Underneath, the fore wings resemble the upper, except
that there is a little dash of very pale yellow near the base,
and the dark mark at the tip is exchanged for dull white, barred
with dull green. The fore edge has a few small black dots.
The hind wings are most elegantly varied with green marks,
and yellowish green; the ground colour being white, and some
of the veins yellowish.
The female is without the orange tip; in other respects she
resembles the male, but the green underneath is darker.
The caterpillar is green, finely dotted with black, and with
a white stripe along the side.
The chrysalis is at first green, which in a few days changes
to dull light yellowish grey; the stripes being brighter.
This insect varies very much in the extent of the wings,
and also in the size and shape of the black spot on the fore
wings. Stephens describes one with the black mark on the
fore wings almost obliterated, and with a black spot on the
upper surface of the hind wings. Haworth mentions one as
having the orange mark on the upper surface of the fore wings
almost invisible; and Boisduval another, a female, which had
an orange spot on the under surface of the fore wings. Mr.
Robert Calvert, of Bishop-Auckland, has written me word of
one he has, which measures only one inch and a quarter
across the wings.