Much interest has recently been excited among British entomologists regarding this butterfly. Some are of opinion that it is not a native of Britain, while others, with a strong shew of reason, contend that it is truly indiginous. The specimens in the British collection formed by our lamented parent, and now in our possession, having been alluded to by both parties, we have been induced to represent them, and to throw some light upon their history. So anxiously did our honored father preserve his cabinet, free from exotic specimens, that knowingly, he never admitted _one_, even as a temporary substitute for a native example. Yet living, in his early days, in constant intercourse with the famous Dutchess of Portland, Dr. Lightfoot, and Mr. Lewin, he received, from these sources, some few insects, which were placed in his cabinet, _under the assurance_ that they were British. Among these are _Pap. Podalirius_, _Daplidice_, and the two specimens of the alleged _Europome_ here figured: the latter being mistaken, _and intermixed_, with three examples of the true _Hyale_. On the other hand, it is incumbent upon us to say, that both these have been mended, before coming into our father's possession, by the heads and antennae of _Gonepteryx Rhamni_! We must also state, that upon closely comparing them with a series of _E. Philodice_, we have failed to discover what appears to us a true specific distinction. The same unsuccess has attended our efforts to detach _Chrysotheme_ from _Edusa_, of which latter we possess specimens from Germany, Genoa, Sicily, Greece, Africa, and several others unlabelled, all varying more or less from each other, and from British examples. * * * * * * [Illustration: MALACONOTUS _Barbarus_. _Barbary Shrike._] MALACONOTUS Barbarus. _Barbary, or yellow-crowned Shrike._ ---- Family Laniadæ. Sub-family Thamnophilinæ. _Nob._ GENERIC CHARACTER. Swains. in Zool. Journ. 3. p. 163. ---- SPECIFIC CHARACTER. _Above glossy black, beneath crimson; crown fulvous yellow: vent and flanks buff._ Lanius barbarus. _Linn._ Icon. _Pl. Enl. 56._ Laniarius barbarus. _Ency. Meth. Orn. p. 755._ Le Gonolek. _Le Vaill. Ois. d'Af. pl. 69._ ----