CHAPTER VII. 



BBIEF DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES OF MANY OF OUR MOST 

 CONSPICUOUS SPECIES. 



IT would be beyond the scope of the present volume to 

 attempt to describe all our Lepidoptera : that has 

 already been done, by the aid of many abbreviations and 

 with our utmost powers of condensation, in the two 

 volumes of the 'Manual of British Butterflies and 

 Moths ' ; but even there it extends to 800 pages, and 

 our readers, we imagine, will prefer on the present 

 occasion a more detailed notice of a few species to an 

 attempt to compress by abbreviations, etc,, a larger 

 number into our space, 



BUTTERFLIES. 



FAMILY I. PAPILIONID^E. Subfamily Papilionidi. 



PAPILIO MAGHAON. THE SWALLOW-TAIL 

 BUTTERFLY. 



This beautiful insect is not now generally distributed 

 throughout Britain, and seems confined to the fenny 

 districts in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Huntingdon- 

 shire. I have also received reliable information of its 

 occurrence in Sussex, at Pulborough. Formerly, I 



