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Genus Prinanerastia*. 



Type, /''. lotella. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi down curved, extending about twice 

 the len^gth of head and thickly scaled ; niaxilliuy palpi minute 

 and filiforru ; frons with rounded prominence with slight raised 

 rim at extremity, a corneous plate below the frons ; antennaj of 

 male laminate and minutely ciliated. Fore wing narrow, the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved ; vein 2 from towards angle of 

 cell ; 4 absent ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 

 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from 

 just befoi'e angle of cell ; 3 and 5 stalked, 4 absent ; 6; 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 8 closely approximated to but not anastomosing with 7.. 



(1) Prinanerastia lactealis. 



Lymire lactealis Koths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 138 (1913). 

 Enosima alhicostalis Roths. Nov., Zool. xx. p. 138 (1913). 

 Lymire strictvpennis Roths. Nov. Zool. xxii. p. 237 (1915). 

 Algeria ; Tunis. 



(2) Prinanerastia nitidicostella. 



Anerastia nitidicostella Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. 259; 

 id. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 399, pi. 40. f. 12 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. ii. 

 p. 12. 



S. Russia. j 



(3) Prinanerastia lotella. 



Tinea lotella Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Tin. f. 344 (1817); Dup.. 

 Lep. Fr. x. pi. 283. f. 6; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 100, 

 Tin. m 90-92; Leech, Pyr. pi. 10. f. 3; Rag. Rom. Mem. viii.^ 

 p. 397 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. ii. p. 12. 



Tinea miniosella Zinck. Germ. Mag. iii. p. 126 (1818). 



Tinea puherella Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Tin. f. 454 (1823). 



Britain; France : Germany ; Austria; Hungary; Switzer- 

 land ; W. Russia ; Asia Minor ; Persia ; W. Turkestan. 



(4) *Prinanerastia incarnatella. 



Anerastia incarnatella Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. 259; 

 id. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 398, pi. 38. f. 15 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. ii.. 

 p. 12. 



S. Russia. 



Genus Chortonceca, nov. 



Type, C. leucocraspia. 



Proboscis aborted and minute ; palpi of male typically obliquely 

 upturned to above vertex of head and thickly scaled, hollowed 

 out to receive the brush-like maxillary palpi, of female down- 



* The type of Anerastia Hiibn. is dignella Hiibn. 



