PHAL.ENA (bombyx) lubricipeda 279 



(vi) Albin, ' Natural History of English Insects,' t. 24, f. 36 

 (1720). 



(vii) Frisch. Ins. 3, t. 8 (1721). 



(viii) Eeaumur, De Ins. 2, t. 1, ff. 7-9 (1736). 



(ix) De Geer, Ins. 1, 1. 11, ff. 7-8 (1752). 



(X) Eoesel, Ins. 1, Phal. 2, t. 46 (1746-1761). 



(xi) Wilkes, one hundred and twenty copper-plates of ' British 

 Butterflies and Moths,' pi. 20, t. 3, a-5 (1740-1761). 



Var. (3. 



Goedart, Ins. t. 38; Eoesel, Ins. 1, Phal. 2, t. 47 ; Wilkes, 

 pap. 20, t. 3, a-b. 



This variety /3 is the source of all the confusion of names, 

 and was evidently the male of the buff ermine ; but Linnaeus in 

 all his works only considered it as a sexual difference, and at 

 last treated it only as a variety, and never gave a separate name 

 to it. 



(i) Linn. ' Fauna Suecica,' p. 254, No. 823 (1746). 



Phalcsna pectinicornis elinguis ; alis deflexis albidis ; punctis 

 nigris, abdomine ordinibus quinque punctorum. Mas flavis 

 ordine transverse punctorum nigrorum obliquorum. 



(ii) Goedart, tt. 23, 38 (1662-1639) ; t. 23, a male var. [3 

 (the buff ermine) and larva ; t. 38, a female white ermine and 

 larva. 



(iii) Lister Goedart (1682) ; f. 93, the var. (3, male ; f. 96, 

 type, the white ermine female. This author does not name his 

 insects. 



(iv) 'Eaii Historia Insectorum ' (1710). No. 155, p. 197, 

 Plialcena media ex albido sublutea, alis exterioribus punctis paucis 

 nigris ; oihtok;. This seems to be the var. j3 ; a male. 



No. 40, p. 195, Phalana imnctata. This last reference is only 

 named by Linnseus in Syst. Nat. xii., and seems to be a female 

 white ermine. I do not understand the Greek word at the end 

 of each of these diagnoses. 



(v) ' Merian Maria Sybilla, De Europische Insecten,' i. t. 46, 

 fig. 65. " Un Papillon Nocturne, blanc, raie et tachete de Noir." 

 (French edition, 1730.) White ermine figured. 



(vi) Albin's * Natural History of Enghsh Insects,' t. 24, f. 36 

 (1720). A figure of the white ermine and its larva ; referred to 

 by Linnaeus in his Syst. Nat. x. and xii., and in his ' Fauna 

 Suecica,' ii. (1761). Albin states this is Goedart's No. 96. 



(vii) Frisch. Ins. 3, tab. 8. Lubricipeda female figured ; no 

 name given. 



(viii) Eeaumur, De Ins. 2, p. 61, ff. 7-9 (1736). Mr. Marsham 

 states that he is clearly convinced that it is the mendica of 

 Linnaeus which is here described, and he states that Eeaumur 

 describes the male "as of the colour of a rat," and alludes to 

 the semitransparency of the wings of the female. P. 61, ii. 



