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time, the Bev. 0. Kingsley, L.L.D., met with it in great plenty in Cowslip 

 Meadow, near Lymington, and it was also taken at Eedlane, near Bristol, by 

 the Rev. W. Eay, and in Glamorganshire. The Kev. M. Newman also met 

 with it at West Camel, and the Rev. E. Burney, at Eympton, in Somerset- 

 shire. Mr. W. Shrimshire took it in plenty at Wisbeach, in Cambridgeshire, 

 and his brother, Dr. F. Shrimshire, at Peterborough, in Northamptonshire, and 

 it was also taken in great plenty by my father, at Whittlesea Mere, in 1814. 



Mr. J. F. Stephen's, in his " Illustrations of British Entomology," pub- 

 lished in 1828, writes, " Mac7mon\s not an uncommon English insect, es- 

 pecially 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 also 

 occurs as far North as Beverley, in Yorkshire, and West as Eedlane, near 

 Bristol, in Somersetshire." In her " Butterfly Collector's Yade Mecum," 

 published in 1827, Miss Jermyn only gives the following localities for 

 Machaon'. " Fenny places, Acle and Horning, Norfolk; Cherry- Hinton, 

 Madingley, Whittlesea, and Grandchester, Cambridgeshire." 



In 1841, three specimens of Machaon were taken by three different col- 

 lectors at Haverhill, Suffolk. 



In 1856, George Austin writes in the " Entomologists' Weekly Intelli- 

 gencer," : " I have been accustomed to find the larvse of Machaon year after 

 year in the osier beds, behind Beaufroy's distillery in Battersea fields, but 

 never once detected it in the winged state." 



In 1871, Newman, in his " British Butterflies," writes : " I have repeated- 

 ly found the caterpillar feeding on rue in a garden, on Tottenham Green ; 

 this was probably fifty years ago. It can now only be sought for, with any 

 prospect of success, in the counties of Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, 

 Norfolk, and perhaps Suffolk." 



PAPILIO PODALIEIUS. 



Scarce Swallow-tailed Butterfly. 



Podalirius, Linn. Podalirius, brother to Machaon. 



The wings are pale yellow, with black transverse bands, the intermediate 

 ones on the fore wings shorter ; hind wings with a black border marked 

 with several blue crescents. They have also a long tail, and the eye-like spot 

 at the anal angle of the hind wings is orange in front, and black, dusted with 

 blue, behind. They expand from*2f to 3^ inches. 



The caterpillar is thick, shaped somewhat like a woodlouse, and contracted 



