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lias a slender, median, '>ro\vn stripe ; the sides liave two dinir^v-wliite stripes, 

 tlie upper straight, t lie lower undulating : the spiracles are placed below the 

 second white stripe, and are intensely black; the belly has six whitish stripes, 

 of" which the median ones are closely approximate. l"he divisions of the seg- 

 ments are marked by slender rings of a pink tinge. It feeds on birch and 

 sallow, and is full-fed at the end of May, when it spins a few threads, and 

 draws together the leaves of its food-|)lant, making a very open kind of net- 

 work cocoon, .so open, indeed, as not in any degree to hide the enclosed 

 chrysiilis, wliicli will even drop (^ut through the meshes if shaken. The 

 chrysalis is rather long, and very pointed at the tail ; it is of pale putty-color, 

 with a broad, cons])icuous, median, brown stripe down the thorax and body; 

 the oblique posterior margins of the thorax are also of the same dark color; 

 the head and wing-cases are dingy-brown, lined with darker brown, by which 

 color the antennae, legs, wing-rays, &c., are clearly indicated ; the antennae 

 case slightly exceeds that of the wings in length. On the body is a median 

 dark stripe below, corresponding with that above, and the lateral region 

 between these two stripes is spotted with dark-brown." — Newman's British 

 Moths, 191. 



Petkophora PoruLATA Packard. Plate 8, fig. 52. 



rUalwna-Gcomelra popiilata Linu., Syst. Nat., x, 525, 1758. 



Phnlwna populata F;ibr., Ent. Syst., iii (ii), 176, 1793. 



" Gcomctra popuhitu Hiibu., Scbui. Eur., tab. 58, iig. lidO (ixiab.i), 17'.)()." 



Lijgris popuhita Hiibii., Vorz., 3:i5, 1818. 



Cklaria popitlata Troits., Scbiii. Eur., vi (ii), 1(J5, I8AS. 



Kkctm popiilata Stepb., Noniencl. Bi'. lus., 44, iH-i'J. 



Cidaria popiihita Dup., Lep. France, viii (v), 305, pi. 11)2, tig. 2, 1830. 



Eleclra popiilata Stepli., 111., iii, 239, 1831. 



Cidaria popiiJaria Boisd., Gen. IrKl.,213, 1840. 



Larciitia popiiliiria Il.-Sc.h., Scbni. Eur., iii, 172, 1847. ' 



JCIirIra popiilata Stepb., Cat. Br. Lep., 189, 18.')0. 



Ciihiriii popiilata Guen., I'lial., ii, 473, 1857. 



Wallv., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxv, 1385, 1802. 



.') J and 4 ?. — Straw-yellow; palpi with darker scales; third joint 

 much paler, large, and prominent. Front of the head yellow, darker toward 

 the front edge. Antennae yellow; in the male minutely ciliated; body 

 uniibrnily yellow. Fore wings with a broad, zigzag, basal stripe, and abroad, 

 very distinct band, ()ccui)ying a tliii-d ol' the wing, and an apical stripe. The 

 broad basal band is i)ointed acutely on each vein, with a much larger, very 

 prominent aniiic in the median space; this hand is composed of three dark 



