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Stephens, in his " Illustrations," 1828, writes : " Maohaon is not an uncommon 

 English insect, especially in the fenny counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge, in 

 some parts of which it occurs in the utmost profusion ; it has sometimes been 

 captured also close to London, in Epping Forest, at Stepney, and near Peckham ; 

 and it was formerly abundant at Westerham, in Kent. Mr. Dale has frequently 

 taken it at Glanvilles Wootton, and in other parts of Dorsetshire. It lias also 

 occurred as far north as Beverley, in Yorkshire, and as far west as Redland, near 

 Bristol." 



Machaon also used to occur at Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, where it was 

 taken by Capt. Bray ; and at Tottenham Green, Middlesex, where Mr. E. Newman 

 repeatedly found the caterpillar feeding on rue in a garden, probably in 1820. — 

 Newman's "Butterflies." It was also very abundant at Whittlesea Mere in 1833 ; and 

 the Messrs. Paget records it as being very abundant in meadows at. Oby and Tburne, 

 Norfolk, in May and August, 1834.— " Sketch of Yarmouth." 



Mr. Stainton, in Ent. Trans, for 185S— 61, writes : " Machaon occurs in the 

 fens near Cambridge, and near Norwich, but we know of no other localities, though 

 a few specimens have occurred at Pulborough, in Sussex, and at Heme Bay, in 

 Kent." 



" Dr. Knaggs, in his " Macro-Lep idoptera of Folkestone," 1870, in a foot-note 

 on p. 12, writes : " Machaon has been met with year after year on the East Cliff, 

 Dover, beyond the Castle." Specimens have also been met with at Deal. These 

 are of much darker hue than the East Anglian, and probably flew over from the 

 Continent. 



Mr. Gaze, in the " Entomologist," for 1842, p. 340, records Machaon. as having 

 been several times taken at Haverhill, in Suffolk. It has also been taken near 

 Ipswich, on the banks of the Stour, and near Clare Priory, in 1867 and 1869. 



Mr. Barrett, in his " Lepidoptera of Norfolk," 1874, records it as being found 

 in all the fens of the rivers Yare and Bure, and adds : " There is reason to hope 

 that this splendid species may survive to a very distant date." 



Machaon is still common in Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, but not in Chippen- 

 ham Fen only a few miles away. It used also to occur at Cherry Hinton, Grand- 

 chester, Madingley, and in Burwell Fen, which was drained in 1842. Whittlesea 

 Mere, Huntingdonshire, was drained in 1851. 



Although the foregoing remarks have in part appeared in my " History of 

 British Butterflies," I thought that some readers of this Magazine who have not 

 seen that book might be interested in them. 



Glanvilles Wootton : 



November, 1901. 



Coleoptera , $rc.,in the neighbourhood of Hastings. — Very limited leisure during 

 the last three years has prevented my doing much collecting, but the few excursions 

 I have been able to take have not been altogether unproductive of good things. 



Bexhill has yielded half-a-dozen Ceenopsis fissirostris and two Rhynchites 

 eeneovirens, among other species, the former among roots of heather. In wet ground 

 at Winchelsea 1 have taken a few each of Panagteus crux-major, Codes helopioides, 

 Badister peltatus, and B. unipustulatus ; while amongst some miscellaneous Hydro- 

 pori in one of my boxes I found, this summer, a single specimen of H. marginatum, 



