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) Reaumur, 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). 



Phalana pectinicornis elinguis ; alis deflexis albidis ; punctis 

 nigris, abdomine ordinibus quinque punctorum. Mas flavis 

 ordine transverso 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) 'Raii Historia Insectorum ' (1710). No. 155, p. 197, 

 Phalcena media ex albido sublutea, alis exterioribus punctis paucis 

 nigris ; oiktok;. This seems to be the var. /3 ; a male. 



No. 40, p. 195, Phalcena punctata. This last reference is only 

 named by Linnaeus 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 English 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) Reaumur, 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 Reaumur 

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

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



