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upon them with pleasure, if not respect. Spotted and marked in a variety of 
ways, black on a red ground, red on a black, black on yellow, with from two 
to almost countless spots, or marked as with Egyptian hieroglyphics in every 
form and shape, they are elegant and pleasing. Stephens has enumerated 
thirty species as natives of Britain, and probably careful research might detect 
many more. 
I must here just allude to another enemy of the Aphides, which shows them no 
mercy, though it acts in a somewhat different way from the Ladybird. This 
is a minute Ichneumon, whose operations are well deserving attention, and I have 
several times observed it. Sometime ago, putting some Rose-leaves covered with 
Aphides under a glass, I found I had enclosed a small Ichneumon, whose 
manoeuvres I therefore inspected. ' He felt about with his antennoe, and the 
Aphides manifested much alarm at his presence by the movements of their 
bodies; at length, approaching one of them, it suddenly bent its abdomen between 
its legs, and immediately protruding its ovipositor, left an egg glued to the body 
of the insect; thus it did with several, and it was very curious to observe the 
proceeding. This egg produces a little white grub, which devours the body of 
the insect to which it is attached, and then seizes upon the Aphides around it, till 
it has arrived at its full growth. 
But we must resume our progress, and lo! the Vanessa C. alburn^ the Butter¬ 
fly of the ground, starts before us, flying where that long streak of rosy purple, 
on the brow of the limestone height, points out the habitat of the beautiful 
Onobrychis sativa ; and, scattered amid the rocky hollows by the side of the 
wood, the bright Pyramidal Orchis f 0. pyramidalis J, both purple and white, 
blooms luxuriantly, while the delicate and sprightly Marbled Butterfly (Hip- 
parchia Galathea) plays about the clustered flowers. Here, for the present, we 
rest upon the mossy turf, fanned by the breeze of the hill, while rocks feathered 
with wood, solitary glens, groves, heaths, and woodlands, rise in view, in long 
succession, terminated in the far distance by the dark, solemn, Cambrian 
mountains. 
PAPILIO PODALIRIUS. 
In the last number of the Naturalist^ I perceive Mr. Allis has recorded 
some observations on the above insect. In a conversation with me a short time 
ago, the point chiefly dwelt upon by Mr. A. was the fact, of the person who sold 
him the specimens having professed herself, at first, unable to tell where they were 
captured. She did not then expect to see him again; but, in the interval before 
the second interview, made the inquiry, the result of which Mr. Allis has stated. 
