8o PLATE CCCLV, 



F I G. IV. 



PHAL/ENA 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: pun&is 

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



PhaLjENA EvOiNYMELLA: alis anticis niveis : punftis 50 nigris, 

 Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 885. 350. 

 Fn. Sv. 1363. 

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



Linnaeus confidered the two fpecies of Ermine Moths, Padella 

 and Evonymella, fufficiently chara&erifed by the number of black 

 fpots on the fuperior wings. To the firft he afligns 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^ 

 prefled forae doubts refpe&ing them in the defcription of one of the 



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