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7. S. corollana, Hiih. ; heegerana, WHU. — Expanse f 

 inch (10 mm.). Fore wings ratlier narrow ; black-brown 

 with a 4-divided oblique pale dorsal blotch and numerous 

 equally oblique but opposite costal streaks. 



Antennee brown ; palpi dusky white ; head brown ; thorax 

 and abdomen black-brown. Fore wings rather narrow, 

 costa hardly arched, apex bluntly angulated, hind margin 

 oblique ; blackish brown, minutely dusted with yellow ; 

 between the base and the middle are three pairs of trans- 

 verse silvery white lines, so strongly angulated in the middle 

 that they go, equally obliquely, to either margin, and especi- 

 ally form a broad divided dorsal blotch ; immediately beyond 

 is an oblique central black-brown line, followed by a parallel 

 silvery white stripe ; outside this is a large yellowish-white 

 ocellus containing fine black lines ; and on the costa are four 

 pale yellow dots ; hind margin edged by a deep black line, 

 which is broken by a yellow dot under the apex ; cilia smoky 

 brown. Hind wings glossy brown with white cilia. Female 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings leaden brown, with white 

 costal dots. Hind wings leaden white. 



On the wing in July. Zeller, however, says in May. 



Larva bone colour, with pale yellow head and darker 

 jaws. 



In autumn and spring, in galls upon aspen, which are 

 produced by Sapcrda poptdnea upon the trunk of the 

 tree. Pupating in the same. (Zeller.) 



A single specimen of this very pretty species has long- 

 been in the collections of — first the late Mr. Edwin Shepherd, 

 since in that of the late Dr. P. B. Mason. The record 

 attached to it is to the efiect that it was taken at Whittlesea 

 Mere, Hunts, in July (year uncertain, but at least sixty 

 years ago) by the late Peter Bouchard. No additional speci- 

 men seems ever to have been found in that locality, or in 



