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Cf European [[underlined]] leporina [[/underlined]] (Poulton Trans Ent Soc Lon 1886 160)

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[[blue strikethrough]] White Acronycta on willow J-style Hd full, rounded, scarcely bilobed shining white, immaculate, w. 2.6 ± Body white, faintly tinged with green, hairs very long, fine, curling a little, abundant but not concealing body. White a very few short black ones d. from 2, 5, 7 & 13 Warts rather large but low and inconspicuous, normal. Secondary hair present but fine, difficult to be sure in account of the abundant long white primary ones. (Sh hd 2.6) [[insertion]] B [[/insertion]] (Others same size, on poplar and white birch have small but distinct black pencils on 5, 7 and 12) [[underlined]] Molt July 18 [[/underlined]] Hd 4 ± Greenish white, nearly immaculate, a little blackish marking in middle of each lobe. Body greenish white, hair abundant very long and soft curling over [[/blue strikethrough]]

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=479B? [[strikethrough]] 476A [[/strikethrough]]
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Egg on birch, hatched July 13, 1894 [[image - half-circle]] Low, flattened, round, with flat projecting base, but marked after noctuid pattern with interpolated ridges [[overwritten]] This is [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] vulpina [[overwritten]] and [[cross?]] striae. A large flat area at micropyle is surrounded by an irregular ridge from which about 12 ridges start down irregularly, as the surface gets larger Others are interpolated till the number reaches 90 or more at base of egg; all waved and connected at the angle by [[overwritten]] Keene Valley N Y [[/overwritten]] slight cross ridges. These are the cellular ridges, rounded off Surface other wrise smooth. Diam. 1.5 mm, height .3 mm [[underlined]] Hatched [[/underlined]] Tubercles large, conical but [[underlined]] concolorous [[/underlined]] and not easy to distinguish, hair single very long. i black, the [[/strikethrough]]

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