50 PLATE CCCLXXVI1. 



FIG. IT. 

 PHAL^NA ALBIDANA. 



SROWN-DOTTED PALE TORTRIX-MOTH. 

 * TORTRIX. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



ToRTRix Albidana. Whitifli : anterior wings with a double 

 oblique tranfverfe feries of brown dots towards the 

 pofterior end ; an obfcure coftal fpot neai' the 

 middle. 



Tliis delicate little Iiife£i was taken in Coombe Wood, Surrey, and 

 at Godfton in the fame county. It is a tortrix of interefting figure, 

 though pale in colour. The wings are whitifli 1 anterior pair faintly 

 tinged with brown, and in addition to the double feries of brown 

 dots towards the pofterior end of the wings, as mentioned in the 

 fpecific character, there are fome other minute dots of the fame 

 colour fparingly fprinkled over the reft of the anterior wings, and in 

 particular two more diftinclt than the others appear in the difk, a little 

 inclining towards the bafe of the wing. 



Not having obferved the defcription of this infefit in the work of 

 any author, we fhall venture to admit it as a new fpecies. 



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