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with a broad chocolate-brown central band, and an erect 

 club-shaped spot near the base. 



Antennae of the male simple, brown ; palpi, head, and 

 thorax dull brown ; abdomen paler. Fore wings broad, trun- 

 cate, broadened behind; costal fold long, and the costa 

 beyond it rolled back ; colour pale brown, with the markings 

 rich velvety chocolate-brown ; near the base is an erect 

 knobbed dorsal spot or blotch ; beyond it a very broad central 

 band, angulated on its outer side, oblique, but scarcely 

 attaining the costa ; from above this a broad costal spot 

 throws off a similar narrow stripe, cutting off the apical 

 area ; cilia pale brown, dusted with smoky black. Hind 

 wings uniformly dull smoky brown, with similar cilia. 

 Female larger ; fore wings without fold, of a coarser apjaear- 

 ance, and of a more dull brown ; the central band narrowly 

 extended to the costa, and the sub-apical streak to the anal 

 angle. Hind wings smoky brown. 



Underside of all the wings very dull grey-brown with a 

 faint tawny tinge towards the apex, this last in the female 

 being stronger and more extended. 



On the wing at the end of .June and in July. 



Larva apparently undescribed, yet known to feed on oak, 

 birch, and other deciduous trees ; I have reared it from 

 sallow; and Sorhagen records as food, hawthorn, blackthorn, 

 aspen and other trees. Feeding in April, May, and the 

 beginning of June. 



PlPA broad, rather flattened across the back ; segments 

 rapidly tapering; pitchj--brown or red-brown, wing-covers 

 frosted, but the nervures beyond the middle glossy ; abdomen 

 dull, segments with rows of points ; cremaster flattened 

 and elongated, finished ofl' with hooked bristles. In the 

 larval habitation. 



The moth sits during the day in oaks, and other of 

 its food trees; and if beaten out dashes swiftly away to 



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