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PEASE-BLOSSOM MOTH. 
with in Cambridgeshire, and districts W'here that 
plant abounds in a natural state. It is, however, 
probable that this is one of those insects, which, if 
not periodical, appears in very small numbers ; 
which opinion is strengthened by the feet, that it is 
veiy rare upon the Continent, where it fetches very 
high prices ; and we are informed by Mr. Haworth, 
that the great patroness of Natural History, the late 
Dutchess of Portland, possessed only a wing of the 
moth, foxmd in a spider’s W'eb at Bulstrode. In 
Wilkes’ days (1773)5 it was bred, he says, by the 
Honourable Mrs. Walters, and by Nathaniel Old- 
ham, Esq."* 
THE GAMMA-MOTH. 
Plusia Ganuna. 
PLATE XXV. Fig. 2. 
^Phal. Noct. Gamma, Linn. ; Don. viii. PI. 265. fig. 2 — Noc- 
* tua Gamma, Htioner . — Silver Y Moth, Wilkea . — Plusia 
Gamma, Ocisen, Steph. 
Antennse simple in both sexes, of moderate length ; 
palpi longer than the head, the radical joint nearly 
of the same length as the terminal one, the latter 
linear and obtuse at the apex, the intermediate 
joint double the length of the others and tapering 
* Brit. Entom. vol. ii. fol. 76. 
