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form is widely distributed in Europe, Asia and eastward to Japan. 
It has been recorded by Meyrick! as common in England and cen- 
tral Europe. He states that the larvae feed on oak, birch, hazel 
etc., while Rouast® has recorded it as feeding upon pear, cherry and. 
oak. The larvae drew the leaves of the Japanese maple together 
into an irregular, somewhat cornucopia-shaped mass in which they 
transformed to the pupa. 
The adult moth has a wing spread of 34 of an inch and the gen- 
eral plan of markings is somewhat similar to our native Archips 
argyrospila Walk., taouga tae gexzeral color is much darker. 
The antennae, head and thcrax are a rather dark fulvous brown, 
particularly the latter. The forewings are a dark reddish brown 
and a light yellowish brown, with narrow, transverse purplish 
brown markings at the extremity. Thereis a variable dark brown 
stripe along the basal third of the costal margin, ending in a 
rather broad, oblique, dark reldish brown and yellowish brown 
stripe extending nearly across the wing to the outer angle. There 
is a distinct semioval, dark brown mark on the distal third of the 
anterior margin, which latter is continued as an indistinct lighter, 
yellowish brown, tapering mark nearly to the posterior border of 
the wing. The basal third of the wing and the portion lying be- 
tween the oblique mark is a variable yellowish brown with iater- 
mixed purplish brown scales dine dito onetne wanes except gat 
part shaded by the outer oblique line, is yellowish brown with the. 
veins and a series of irregular, narrow, transverse lines more or 
less distinctly marked by purplish scales. Hind wings dark pur- 
plish brown, fringe of both wings pale yellowish brown. Abdomen 
a variable yellowish cr yellowish brown and posteriorly orna- 
mented with long tufts of yellowish brown scales. 
This moth differs from the native species at hand by its darker 
color in connection with the narrow, irregular, transverse lines on 
the outer portion of the wing. 
The larvais about 1inch long. Head light amber, mouth parts 
darker; thoracic shield light amber, lateral and posterior margins 
dark brown or black. Body dark olivaceous, with a subdorsal row 
of distinct whitish tubercles, dorsal vessel slightly darker; lateral 
ridge and ventral surface semitransparent, yellowish green. ‘True 
legs black, prolegs whitish transparent. The caterpillar is sparsely 
clothed with fine, whitish hairs. Lateral and subventral tubercles 
inconspicuous, as they are concolorous with the paler portions of 
the larva. Some of the larvae are somewhat lighter, having lighter, 
subdorsal stripes, and in one smaller individual the dorsum is very 
little darker than the venter, with darker, indistinct, broken, sub- 
1A Handbook of British Lepidoptera. 1895. p. 531. 
21883 Catalogue des Chenilles Europennes Connues, p. 127. 
