8o PLATE CCCLV. 



F I G. IV. 



PHAL^NA EVONYMELLA. 

 White Ermine Moth. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 Wings white, with about fifty black points. 



Tinea, with white upper wings and black points ; inferior wings 

 brown. Tinea alis fuperioribus albis : pundtis 

 nigris, inferioribus fufcis. Geoff. Inf. 2. 183. 4. 



Phal^na Evonymella : alis anticis niveis : pun£tis 50 nigris. 

 Lim. SyJ}. Nat. 2. 885. 350. 

 Fn. Sv. 1363. 

 Fab, Ent. Syji. T. 3. p. 2. 289. 12. 



Linnaeus confidercd the two fpecies of Ermine Moths, Padella 

 and Evonymella, fufficiently charadterifed by the number of black 

 fpots on the fuperior wings. To the firft he affigns twenty, and 

 to the latter fifty on each wing. 



Thofe who have attended particularly to thofe fpecies are aware, 

 that the number of fpots are by no means conftant, and may have 

 frequently obferved even more fpots on one wing than the other in 

 the fame individual, as occurs in the fpecimen we have figured. This 

 has occafioned fome confufion between the two fpecies, and we ex- 

 picJTed fome doubts refpeding them in the defcription of one of the 



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