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Busck (1932) probably overlooked the publication of the name 

 Ceracidae by Meyrick and established for the same group a syn- 

 onymic family name Atteriidae. Clarke (1955) was the first who 

 turned his attention to the male genitalia of Pseudatteria and stressed 

 the close relationship of this genus to the genera Polyortha Dognin 

 and Ardeutica Meyrick. Studies of the present author have con- 

 firmed this relationship in the morphology of the female genitaUa 

 also. Moreover, these studies have shown that the genera Atteria 

 and Idolatteria have nothing in common with Pseudatteria except 

 for the superficial resemblance; Atteria should be placed in Ana- 

 crusini (new status) and Idolatteria in the tribe Archipini. The 

 genera Pseudatteria, Polyortha, and Ardeutica require separation as 

 the new tribe Polyorthini, established in this paper. All of the 

 above-mentioned genera are c^uite distinct from the tribe Ceracini 

 which maintains its recognized status (Obraztsov, 1954.) 



This paper represents the first revision of the genus Pseudatteria. 

 Until the present, most of the species have been known from the 

 original descriptions only; additional information was published by 

 Clarke (1958) for the species established by Meyrick. Favorable 

 circumstances have given the present author an opportunity to 

 examine the type specimens of all known species, to figure them and 

 their genitalia, to estabUsh the synonymy, to study extensive com- 

 parative materials, and to describe seven new species and one new 

 subspecies. The paper deals with 24 species of the genus Pseudat- 

 teria; some species are represented by females only. 



The author is greatly indebted to all of the following persons 

 and institutions for their cooperation and permission to study the 

 specimens in their possession. The author expresses his cordial 

 thanks to J. D. Bradley of the British Museum (Natural History) 

 (BMNH); Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke of the U.S. National Museum 

 (USNM), who also placed at the author's disposal some photographs 

 for the present paper; Dr. P. J. Darlington, Director of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology (MCZ); Dr. W. Forster and Dr. K. Sattler 

 of the Bavarian State Zoological Collection (''Zoologische Sammlung 

 des Bayerischen Staates" in Munich; ZSM); Dr. H. J. Hannemann 

 of the Zoological Institut and Museum of the Humboldt University 

 in Berlin (ZMB); Dr. F. Kasy of the Vienna Museum of Natural 

 History (VMNH); Dr. A. B. Klots and Dr. F. H. Rindge of the 

 American Museum of Natural History (AMNH); and Dr. G. Petersen 

 of the German Institut of Entomology (''Deutsches Entomologisches 

 Institut"; DEI). The author is grateful also to W. G. Tremewan 

 of the British Museum (Natural History) for his careful assistance 

 in making genitalic slides. The work on this paper was done under 

 the auspices of the National Science Foundation; this agency also 



