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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...strong. The Marbled White is an extremely local butterfly, but sometimes common over a very restricted area. It is not a wood insect, and seems to prefer rough, broken ground, like a chalk or limestone hill-side. It need not be sought on such ground exclusively, for I found a considerable number on one occasion, when the sun was not shining, at rest on the grasses or rushes growing in a swampy spot a few miles from Abingdon in Berkshire. Their position seemed to have been taken up designedly with a view to concealment, for at a short distance it was difficult to distinguish the butterflies from the inflorescence of some of the rushes and grasses. An instance this, probably, of protective resemblance. Galatea occurs locally in all the English counties except nine or ten north-midland and northern ones. It is, however, found in Yorkshire. In July the eggs are laid amongst the grass. They are hatched in about three weeks; but the young larvae hibernate early near the roots of the grass, and begin feeding again about the end of April. They are full-fed about the beginning of June, in which month the chrysalis may be found. The imago comes out in July. The larva (Fig. 137) is about ijin. in length, the head is large, the tail forked, and the body slightly dilated along the sides. The segments are not clearly denned, nor are the sections into which each segment is divided. The ground-colour is dingy ochreous-yellow, sometimes with a dull greenish tinge. There is a rather dark dorsal stripe, and along the spiracular region a band slightly darker than the ground-colour, bounded above and below by a lighter line. The ventral surface, legs, and claspers are dull ochreous-yellow, resembling the ground-colour, and the mouth and spiracles are black....

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