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Hartlepool, Durham, aud ^lorpeth, Xorthuuilierland ; but I 

 find no records in Scotland or Wales. In Ireland it is well 

 known in Dublin and Belfast. Abroad throu^■hollt Central 

 and Southern Europe, Asia Minor, South Africa, the 

 Canaries, North and South America, the West Indies, 

 Hawaii, Australia, and Java. 



Family J. ANER ASTIID JE. 



Proboscis absent or atrophied ; antenna of the male bent 

 near the base ; maxillary palpi rudimentary ; labial palpi 

 porrected; fore wings narrow; hind wings devoid of vein 5, 

 and with veins 7 and 8 joined half way ; the upper side 

 of the median uervure ciliated. 



Genus 1. ANERASTIA. 



Antenn;\3 of the male simple, but the basal joint large, 

 and the second bent ; fore wings long and narrow, with a 

 narrow cell ; hind wings ample, veins o and -1 joined far 

 down, on the upper side tufts of hair-scales arise from the 

 bases of the median aud sub-dorsal nervures ; body slender ; 

 legs rather short. 



We have only one species. 



1. A. lotella, Hi'h. — Expanse i to 1 inch (20-2.j mm.). 

 Fore wings elongated, narrow, yellow-buft' or reddish-drab, 

 sometimes with darker dusted longitudinal stripes, often 

 with a dull white costal strijie. Hind wings smoky-white. 



Antennae of the male simple, curved above the base, drab 

 or reddish drab ; palpi rather large, sword-shaped, pointed 

 forward and curved a little down, reddish-drab ; on the face 

 is a curious rounded and i-inged horny knob ; head and 

 thorax drab or red-drab ; abdomen pale reddish-ochreous. 

 Fore wings elongated, of even width ; costa very flatly 

 arched : apex and hind margin bluntly rounded ; pale buff, 

 drab, grey-drab or reddish-drab, the nervures sometimes 



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