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Glamorganshire. Machiton used to be taken 

 some years ago at Peuclawdd and Lloughor 

 J. T. D. Llewelyn. 



Gloucestershire. Bristol Samouette's" Use- 

 ful Compendium." 



Hampshire. A friend informed me that he 

 possessed two specimens taken in the New 

 Forest G. B. Corbin ; cowslip meadow near 

 Lymington. It has been taken plentifully 

 near the New Forest SamoueUes " Useful 

 Compendium? I saw to-d.iy a specimen of 

 Machaon taken on the 8th July in the New 

 Forest Waller J. Wilkinson. 



Huntingdonshire. Yaxley-fen, Holme-fen, 

 Ac., years ago F. Bond. 



Lancashire. A specimen of this insect was 

 found in this neighbourhood on the turnpike 

 road, and was brought to me alive and in good 

 preservation this day R. J. Shields, 24th 

 July, 1856 "Entomologists' Weekly Intelli- 

 gencer" vol. i., p. 139. 



Norfolk. Horning and other fens C. G. 

 Barrett; once in Aldeby Marshes W. M. 

 Crowfoot ; Norfolk Broads W. II. Draper. 



Middlesex. I have repeatedly found the 

 caterpillar feeding on rue in a garden in the 

 occupation of some friends of the name of 

 Forster on Tottenham Green : this was pro- 

 bably fifty years ago E. Newman. 



Suffolk. The family of a clergyman re- 

 siding near Ipswich told me they had taken 

 Machaon on the banks of the Stour //. H. 

 Crewe ; in 1841 three specimens of Machaon 

 were taken by three different collectors at 

 Haverhill W. Gaze ; on the 25th of August, 

 1870, Mr. Garrett of this town took a fine 

 specimen of Machaon in a clover-field about a 

 mile from Ipswich : it was perfect, with the 

 exception of a small piece out of one wing 

 Edward F. Bisshopp, " Entomologist" voL 

 v., p. 17. 



Surrey. At p. 140 of the first volume of 

 the " Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer," 

 we read as follows : " In the osier beds behind 

 Beaufoy's distillery in Battersea Fields, year 

 after year I have been accustomed to find the 

 caterpillars of Machaon, and have always 

 raised the perfect insect from them, yet, 

 though constantly on the watch, I never once 



there detected it in the winged state " Georye 

 Austin. 



Sussex. A specimen of this butterfly oc- 

 curred this week near Balcombe tunnel ; it 

 was taken in his cap by a man working in the 

 tunuel, and of course spoiled Eli T. Silvester, 

 " Entomologists Weekly Intelligencer" vol. i., 

 p. 197, but without date; Pulborough, Sussex 

 Com in (in Staintorix " Manual." 



Wight, Isle of. Taken in the Isle of Wight 

 by the late Captain Bray J. C. Dale; 

 Madiaon used to occur at Freshwater, but is 

 probably now extinct A I/red Owen ; I never 

 took Machaon myself, but am assured it was 

 taken in this parish years ago James Pristo. 



Yorkshire. At p. 27 of the Preface to 

 Ha worth's " Lepif/optera Britannica " we find 

 the following passage : " I know Machaon, 

 the common swallow-tailed Papilio, breeds 

 near Beverley yet, and my brother-in-law, R. 

 Scales, of Wai worth, near London, possesses a 

 specimen of it which was taken there seve 

 years since." 



Family 11. WHITES (in science Xtendte). 



The caterpillar is cylindrical, transversely 

 wrinkled, and beset with very short hairs. 

 The chrysalis is girted and attached by the 

 tail ; its head is pointed. The butterfly has 

 distinctly clubbed antennae, and rounded hind 

 wings which are never tailed. 



53. WOOD WHITE. Thebody isvery long 

 and slender ; the wings are rather long and 

 narrow, rounded at the tip, and plain round 

 all the margins : the colour of the upper side 

 is white, with a nearly square spot at the tip : 

 in the female this spot is indistinct or absent. 

 On the under side the basal half of the fore 

 wings and the whole of the hind wings are 

 clouded with faint greenish gray ; this colour 

 forms two indistinct and imperfect transverse 

 bands. 



Varieties. There is a pure white variety 

 with a round dusky spot at the tip of the 

 fore wings, which occurs very rarely, and 

 only in the south of England ; it is more 

 common in the south of Europe : the ordinary 

 autumnal specimens are paler and smaller 

 than the vernal ones : the wing-rays also, 



