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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 143 — BOOK XI. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS.

John Bostock translation

Cuvier observes, that this is a very correct account of the cabbage or radish butterfly, the Papilio brassicæ or Papilio raphani of Linnæus.

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