FAM. ADELIDZE 3 
Characters. — Head rough on crown, face with appressed hairs. Antennz 2-3, in gf filiform, 
basal joint stout, without pecten. Labial palpi short. porrected, loosely scaled. Maxillary palpi long, 
five-jointed, filiform, folded. Posterior tibize with rough or appressed hairs. Forewings elongate; 2 and 3 
sometimes stalked, 7 to termen, 8 and 9 usually stalked. Hindwings r, elongate-ovate, cilia two-thirds ; 
5 and 6 approximated or stalked. 
Imago flying at dusk; hindwings more or less clothed with hairscales. 
Larva at first mining in leaves, afterwards feeding in a flat portable case of leaf-fragments. 
Foodplants promiscuous, various low plants and fallen leaves. 
Geographical distribution of species, — Palcarctic and Australian, but has not yet been 
found in the Indo-Malayan region; it would appear to be of Palcarctic origin, and may possibly have 
reached Australia by way of Japan and the Philippines without entering India. 
r. N. iolampra, Turner, Trans. Roy. Soc. 5. Australia p. 17 (1900). E, Australia. 
2. N. leptosticta, l'uvner, ibidem, p. 16 (1900). E. Australia. 
3. N. sabulosella, Walker, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. Vol. 28, p. 497 (1863). E. Australia. 
4. N. stenochlora, nov. sp. 1). Meyrick. N. Africa. 
5. N. dorsiguttella, Exschoff, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. Vol. 7, p. 343 (1571). E. Siberia 
6. N. minutella, Snellen, Tijdschr. v Ent. Vol. 27; p. 151, pl. 8. f. 1 (1884). E. Siberia. 
7. N. caucasica, Rebel, Stett. Ent. Zeit. Vol. 54, p. 44 (1893). S.-E. Europe. 
8. N. pilulella. Hübner, Samml. Europ. Schmett. f. 409 (1816). Europe. 
9. N. pilella. Fabricius, Mant. Ins. Vol. 2, p. 256 (1787). Europe. 
magna, Zeller, Stett. Ent. Zeit. Vol. 39, p. 120 (1878). ^ 
10. N., metaxella, Hübner, Samml. Europ. Schmett. f. 413 (1816). Europe. 
rr. N.. annulatella, Ragonot, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. p. 66 (1876). S. Europe. 
pseudopilella, Peyerimhoff, Pet. Nouv. Ent. p. 101 (1877). 
12. N. schwarziella, Zeller, Isis. p. 185 (1839). C.and S. Europe, N. Africa. 
13. N.. sericinella, Zeller, ibidem, p. 816 (1847). S. Europe, 
14. N. panzerella, Hübner, Samml. Europ. Schmett. f. 412 (1816). — Europe. 
Plate, Fig. 1 O. 
15. N. reaumurella, Peyerimhoff, Pet. Nouv. Ent. p. 66 (1870). S. Europe. 
16. N., swammerdammella , Linnzeus, Syst. Nat. Vol. 1, p.540 (1758). — Plate, C.and S.-E. Europe. 
Figs. ! 6a, b. 
2. GENUS TRICHORRHABDA, NOV. GEN., MEYRICK 
Characters. — Differs from Ceromitia in having antenne in cf very strongly ciliated with long 
fine hairs ( Q unknown). 
Early stages unknown. 
Geographical distribution of species. — South American. 
1. T. fasciolata, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 74 (1883). S. America. 
3. GENUS CEROMITIA, ZELLER 
Ceromitia. Zeller, Lep. Micr. Caffr. p. 92 (1852). — Type : C. wahlbergt, Zeller. 
Agisana. Móschler, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Vol. 32, p. 3o8 (1883). — Type : C. turpis, Walker. 
1) Nemophora stenochlora, nov. sp. — GO, 14-16 mm. Head yellow-ochreous, face whitish. Labial palpi very short, whitish. Antenn;e 
white. Thorax pale grey. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, slightly dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, 
termen obliquely rounded ; 2 and 3 sometimes stalked, 8 and 9 sometimes stalked ; glossy whitish grey-ochreous : cilia concolorous, Hindwings narrow ; 
5 and 6 stalked; thinly scaled, subhyaline, pale grey; cilia pale ochreous-grey. Philippeville, Algeria, in April, three specimens. Specialiy charac- 
terised by the unusually narrow wings. 
