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My esteemed friend, J. C. Dale, Esq., the well-known ento- 

 mologist, is also certain that he saw one settled on some rushes 

 near Eltisley, Cambridgeshire, in July, 1818. The wings were 

 half-expanded towards the sun. 



Mr. B. Standish was also certain that he saw this butterfly 

 on or about September 20th., 1829, near Richmond Park. 



A friend of his, who Avas in his company Avhen he saw this 

 one, saw another in 1820. 



Dr. Abbot told Haworth that he had seen 'Podallrlus' two or 

 three times, previous to his capture of it, presently to be stated. 



Mr. Thomas Allis says as follows in "The Naturalist," old 

 series, vol. i., pages 38-9: — "Having noticed a good deal of 

 dissension respecting the genuineness of 'Papilio Podalirlus' as a 

 British insect, I take this opportunity of announcing, through 

 the medium of your journal, that I myself possess a pair which 

 I believe to be British. I met with them under the followlno- 



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circumstances: — Happening to be at Portsmouth the sunnner 

 before last, for the first time, I enquired, as is my usual practice 

 on going to a town before unvisltcd by me, for collectors of 

 Natural History specimens: I soon found one, and among the 

 collection was a pair of the above-named species. The owner 

 assured me they were British, that they were caught by a 

 person she employed in the neighbourhood, and that she set 

 them up herself. As it Avould not have been worth her while 

 to have imposed on nie in this instance, and especially as she 

 did not seem aware of the value of the specimens, I feel no 

 doubt but they were really British. She could not at the time 

 exactly inform me where they were taken, but on my return 

 to Portsmouth about a fortnight afterwards, she told me she 

 had learned, from the captor, that they were obtained in the 

 New Forest. From what I have said, I feel justified in con- 

 sidering myself the fortunate possessor of specimens of British 

 Papilio Podalirius." 



The above relate only to "ocular demonstration;" now then 

 for those "stubborn things" — "facts." First, I have myself seen, 

 in the cabinet of my friend, the Pev. George Pudston Read, 

 Rector of Sutton-upon-Derwent, near Pockllngton, the original 



