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It is a common butterfly in Southern and Central Europe, North Africa, 

 and West Asia as Persia and the Altai ; and is met with in open places near 

 woods, especially in hilly districts, in May and July. 



It appears to have formerly inhabited England, but is now extinct. 

 (" Kirby's European Butterflies and Moths/') 



Described by Mouffet in 1634. 



In 1710, the "Historia Insectorum," by John Ray, was published in 

 London by Dr. Derham, and in it he writes of Podalirius, " Prope Liburnum 

 Porfcum in Etruria invenimus, atque, ni male memini, etiam in Anglia." 



In 1795, Dr. Berkenhout writes, " Rare, in woods." 



In 1803, Haworth in his " Lepidoptera Britannica " writes, " My friend, 

 the Rev. Dr. Abbott, of Bedford, has informed me that he took in May last, 

 near Clapham Park Wood, in Bedfordshire, a specimen of Papilio Podalirius 

 in the winged state. An ingenious and practical friend, probably Mr Rippon 

 of York, has informed me that he took two sorts of Swallow-tailed Papilios 

 near Beverly, in Yorkshire, five-and-twenty years ago, but no specimens of 

 them are now extant ; a fire which, unhappily, destroyed great part of his 

 property, having consumed them likewise. 



In 1822, the Rev. E. W. Hope captured one in Shropshire. 



In or about the year 1826, one was taken on the wing between Sough and 

 Datchet, Berkshire, by Mr. Rudston Read, when a school-boy at Eton. 



Family PIERID^. 



Celestial messengers are we. — 

 Of nature's soul the wild romances ; 



Like wavelet sparks on western sea, 

 When sunset's gorgeous train advances, 



And o'er the surface, rippling dances. 



Wollaston's Lyra Devoniensis. 



Genus II. APORIA. 

 Hubner. 



Apdria, a figure in rhetoric, when the orator doubts what to do or say. — 

 Cic. Att. 7, 21. 



The antennas are rather long and thick ; and the wings, especially in the 

 female, are semi-transparent. 



APORIA CRATiEGI. 

 Black-veined White. 

 CuatjEGI, Linn. ; Cratse'gi, from the generic name of one of its food-plants 

 — Crataegus oxyacantha (Hawthorn.) 



