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PLATE DLXXI. 



PHAUENA PAPYRATIA, 



WATER ERMINE-MOTH. 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



* Jiombyx. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae taper from the bafe: wings in general deflected when at 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS, 



Wings fnowy white with black dots at the tip : abdomen with five 

 rows of black dots. 



Bombyx Pafyratia. Marjh. Linn. Tranf, 1. p. 72. tab. 1. 

 fig. 4. 



Refembles the large or common Ermine Moth, and feems to have 

 been very frequently confounded with that fpecies till its fpecifical 

 diftinclion was pointed out by our worthy friend Thomas Marfham, 

 Efq. in a memoir printed in the firft volume of the Tranfactions of 

 the Linnasan Society. It differs principally in having black dots at 

 the tip of the wings only, except one or two reaching in a line towards 



t_ B« Mcnthraftri of Fabricius. 



the 



