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Antennse very long, light brown ; palpi slender, porrected, 

 pointed, snow-white ; head and middle of the thorax white, 

 sides of the latter brown and black ; abdomen slender, black- 

 brown, first segment barred, and the remainder edged witli 

 white. Fore wings elongated, not very narrow ; costa gently 

 arched, apex bluntly angulated, hind margin oblique ; 

 whitish-grey, dotted and irrorated with black, also having 

 many elongated spots, or streaks, defined by a slender black 

 edging ; on the costa are three white spots, in the middle of 

 the wing a cluster of five large raised tufts or buttons of black 

 and tawny scales, and around them the irregular faint central 

 band ; beyond this the wing is roughened bj^ other raised 

 tufts of scales ; cilia grey, dashed with black. Hind wings 

 rather pointed, smokj--white dappled with minute smoke- 

 coloured lines ; cilia smoky-grey. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-brown, mottled with 

 faint markings ; costa dotted with white. Hind wings more 

 darkly clouded and mottled. 



On the wing from May till the beginning of July. 



Larva restless, not very active, somewhat cylindrical, with 

 wrinkled and rather swollen segments ; pale yellowish-green, 

 with delicate hairs arising from barely visible spots ; head 

 chestnut-brown, edged behind with black ; dorsal and anal 

 plates and feet green. 



June till August in the spun-together flowers and imma- 

 ture berries of Bryonia dioica, eating out the pulp and the 

 seeds and leaving only the skins of the berries spun together- 

 In August it leaves the berries and gnaws the stem, joining 

 to it a leaf with papery white silk, then goes to the earth, 

 where it spins up and hybernates. Milliere states that 

 it feeds also on Echalium clatcrium in the South of France. 



Pupa light brown ; in the earth. 



The moth often sits, in the afternoon, upon a leaf of 

 bryony, where it looks very much like a bird's-dropping. 

 Towards dusk it flies quietly about the same plant, par- 



