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Larva sixteen-legged, living in a web between drawn-together 

 leaves. Pupa in a firm cocoon. 



Chor. bjerkandrella, Thnb. 



<$ $ . 4"-5". Head grey, face tinged with yellow. Palpi white, 

 second joint grey on side with two black rings before apex, 

 beneath with long blackish and white diverging bristles, terminal 

 joint blackish. Antennae black, annulated with white, in $ with 

 moderate ciliations. Thorax yellowish-ferruginous, with five 

 longitudinal metallic grey-silvery lines. Abdomen black, with 

 silvery -white rings. Legs white, tibiae with central and apical 

 black bands, tarsi with four black bands. Fore- wings moderately 

 dilated, apex and hind-margin rounded; dark fuscous, basal 

 third yellowish-ferruginous, except on margins and a central 

 longitudinal streak ; two short metallic- silvery streaks from base 

 along the costal margin and central streak ; two cloudy whitish 

 transverse bands, first from of costa to of inner-margin, rather 

 curved outwards, furcate on inner-margin ; second from f of costa 

 to before anal angle, angulated outwards above middle ; the space 

 between these is irregularly sprinkled with whitish scales ; two 

 round black blotches immediately preceding second band, one on 

 inner margin, the other below middle, each containing an elongate 

 metallic purple-silvery mark, that in the upper one being three- 

 pointed ; several other metallic purple-silvery markings, consisting 

 of an elongate mark on inner margin of second band above middle, 

 a small costal spot between the two bands, an elongate mark on 

 hind-margin below middle, preceded by an elongate black blotch, 

 a spot on costa immediately beyond second band, and an elongate 

 mark round apex : cilia dark grey, with a pale line in middle 

 and another before tips, tips white round apex. Hind-wings 

 dark, fuscous, blackish towards apex, with a white elongate spot 

 on disc beyond middle, parrallel to hind-margin, and sometimes 

 another less distinct white spot above it on costa ; cilia blackish, 

 with two white lines. 



