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Salebria triplagiella, n. sp. 



Gray; fore wings rather dark, appearing granular from the pale scales 

 mixed with darker; no reddish shades. Inner line whitish, oblique, irreg 

 ularly dentate, a black border outwardly on costal half, inwardly on 

 lower half; a small white shade nearly touching the line on the inner mar 

 gin, followed by a diffuse black spot. Discal dots joined, large, black. 

 Outer line rather coarsely crenulate, very slightly more incised at cell and 

 submedian fold ; a row of terminal dots. Hind wing fuscous, subpellucid, 

 the edge darker, fringe whitish. Expanse 25 mm. 



Described from one <j% Winnipeg, Manitoba (A. W. Hanham). 



Type. No. 7843, U. S. National Museum. 



The form comes near annulosella Ragonot, but the wings are 

 more elongate, the markings less definite and rougher, while the 

 outer line is scarcely incised at all on the submedian fold. 



Pyla hanhamella, n. sp. 



Palpi porrect, greenish metallic, white scaled below narrowly. Head 

 and thorax black, slightly metallic; $ antennae bent at base with very 

 small scale tuft in the bend, of 9 simple. Fore wings brownish black, 

 the basal space only with a slight metallic reflection ; median space washed 

 with white scales. Lines gray white, rather broad, diffused, the inner 

 oblique, slightly waved, the outer indented at cell and submedian fold. 

 The grayish scaling in the median space is clustered over the cell and 

 defines distinctly a large dark discal dot. Hind wings light brownish, 

 darker on the edge, the fringe pale, almost whitish. Below pale sordid 

 whitish, yellowish tinged, unmarked except for a trace of the outer line on 

 the costa. Abdomen dark, ringed in pale at the ends of the segments and 

 lighter towards tip. Expanse 22-24 mm - 



Described from 3 g$ and i 9 , Winnipeg, Manitoba, one dated 

 June 27, 1900 (A. W. Hanham). 



Type. No. 7844, U. S. National Museum. 



Pyla rainierella, n. sp. 



Black; fore wings with scattered greenish metallic scales. Lines and 

 discal dot without these scales, black, diffused, rather broad and near to 

 gether. Inner line straight, nearly perpendicular; outer line bent out 

 ward in the middle. Hind wings and underside black. Expanse 16-17 

 mm. 



Two ^(-JS Mt. Rainier, Washington (C. V. Piper). 



Type. No. 7845, U. S. National Museum. 



The species of Pyla may be separated by the following table : 



