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advanced to prove them either varieties of each other, or different 

 fexes of the fame fpecies. Linnasus confidered them as diflincl 

 kinds. They differ in colour in the larva state, that of one being 

 a light yellow brown, and of the other dark brown inclining to black. 

 The fuperior wings of Evonymella are lefs of a lead colour than thofe 

 ofT. Padella, and are marked with a greater number of black dots; 

 the latter, according to Linnaeus, mould have only twenty of thefe 

 dots on the wings, the other fifty ; but this character is liable to fome 

 little variation, as we have frequently had an opportunity of obferving, 

 in fpecimens of both infecls. Phalaena (Tinea) Evonymella is given 

 in another part of the work. 



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