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TENANTS OF AN OLD FARM. 



FIG. 28. — death's head moth axi> larva. 



tain district of France, while the people Avere suffering 

 from an epidemic disease, was considered by many per- 

 sons the cause of the visitation. There is a quaint 

 superstition in England that the Death' s-IIead Moth 

 has been very common in Whitehall ever since the 

 ' martyrdom ' of Charles I. 



" The insect is widely distributed. I have seen fine 

 specimens from Germany, Africa, and Asia, in the col- 

 lections of Mr. Titian Peale and the American Ento- 



