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14. S. nitidana, Fah. ; redimitana, Chi. — Expanse 

 .j\- inch (7-8 mm.). Very slender and small; fore wings 

 rather narrowly ovate, velvety black-browu with an obscure 

 angulated paler transverse band before the middle, and a 

 few white costal dots. 



Antennte black ; palpi dull white ; head, thorax and 

 abdomen blackish brown. Fore wings blunt, rather narrow ; 

 costa very flatly arched, apex and hind margin gently 

 rounded; glossy black-brown; basal blotch defined only by 

 its black edge, which is angnlated above the middle ; 

 immediately following it is a cloudy whitish stripe or band 

 similarly bent ; costa dotted with pairs of yellowish white 

 streaks which join beneath ; ocellus a small lustrous blue 

 cloud ; cilia smoky white with darker tips. Hind wings 

 smoky brown with paler cilia. Female similai\ 



Undersides of all the wings shining black ; costa and 

 apex of fore wings dotted with white. 

 On the wing in May and June. 



Larva active, slender, cylindrical with rather wrinkled 

 segments ; semi-transparent pale yellow ; dorsal vessel grey, 

 or dusky green ; head and dorsal and anal plates bright 

 yellow ; anal prolegs rather extended. 



July to September, on oak, living between two leaves, the 

 surfaces of which it unites with silk, and forms a tubular 

 habitation between them, with some loose web ; gnawing 

 the inner surfaces of both leaves and blotching them 

 considerably. 



Pupa pale olive brown, thoracic portion especially glossy ; 

 abdomen with a band of fine teeth in front on each segment, 

 with a faint ridge behind it ; cremaster hardly visible. In 

 a small cocoon, covered with frass, in the larval habita- 

 tion, but not in the larva tube. The winter is passed in this 

 condition. 



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