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speckled; abdomen pale cinereous-brown; palpi above and legs above cinereous- 

 brown ; palpi and legs beneath white. 

 Expanse 1 to I5- inch. 



Family PHYCITIDiE. 



Forewiugs oblong, or elongate, slightly folded in repose, antennje simple in 

 male, often curved near the base, sometimes with a tuft of scales in the curve; 

 labial palpi generally of moderate length and ascending, sometimes long and por- 

 rected ; maxillary palpi usually penicillate or filiform, generally concealed, sometimes 

 absent. 



Larva with 16 legs. Feeds on the leaves or on the stems of plants ; some in dried 

 animal or vegetable substances ; generally spinning silken galleries. 



Genus ANERASTIA. 

 Anerastia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 367 (1825-7) ; Zeller, Isis, 1839, p. 177 ; Guenee, Micro. 



p. 84 (1845); Stainton, Catal. Tin. p. 4 (1849). 

 Araxes, Stepbeus, Iliust. Haust. iv. p. 315 (1834). 

 Ahraxes, Curtis, Guide, 2ud ed. p. 207 (1837). 



Forewing narrow, long, costa arched, exterior margin oblique, convex; cell 

 two-thirds the length ; first subcostal about one- seventh before end of the cell, 

 second close to end, third bifid ; discocellular bent near upper end, radial from the 

 angle ; middle median close to end of cell, lower at one-eighth ; submedian straight : 

 hindwing ample ; two subcostals from end of cell, upper joined to costal to nearly 

 half its length ; cell deeply concave ; medians from end of the cell, the two upper 

 on a footstalk half beyond the cell ; submedian and two internal veins widely separated. 

 Body slender ; antennae flattened, submoniliform ; head prominently convex ; labial 

 palpi porrect, long, second joint pilose above, third joint nearly half-length of second ; 

 maxillary palpi very minute ; legs squamous, spurs unequal. 



Type, A. lotalis, Hiibn. 



ANERASTIA ADAPTELLA. 

 Pmpelia adaptella, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 74 (1863). 



" Male. Fawn colour : forewings dingy yellowish, minutely black speckled : 

 hindwings whitish, semihyaline. Abdomen cinereous." 

 Expanse to inch. 



ANERASTIA CELSELLA. 

 Araxes Cdsella, Walker, CataL Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 193 (1863). 

 Forewing ochreous ; with the costal border broadly and the posterior border 



