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Subfamily ANERASTIIN^:. 



Bandera binotella Zeller. 



My specimens agree with Zeller's description better than 

 with Ragonot's figure. There is present in all a gray powdery 

 shading on the fore wings, leaving the ocherous ground-color 

 showing clearly only in two streaks on either side of vein i. 

 By Ragonot's figure and description the wings should be en- 

 tirely ocherous except for the costal markings and dots. 

 Whether Ragonot's specimens were in poor condition or 

 whether another species is involved may be left for later 

 decision. 



Brownsville, Tex., May 21, 1904, and June 9, 1904 (H. S. 

 Barber) ; Five Mile Beach, N. J., July 2 (F. Haimbach). 



Bandera cupidinella Hulst. 



My specimens of this species, when in good condition, ap- 

 pear to have a white costal stripe owing to the width of the 

 white lining on the subcostal vein ; a lens shows that it does 

 not reach the base except on the vein. It does reach the 

 costal margin on outer half of the wing, and in this respect 

 my specimens do not agree with the descriptions of Hulst and 

 Ragonot, or the figure of the latter. As these authors appear 

 to have had but a single specimen, in which the markings may 

 not have been clearly apparent, I am inclined to retain the 

 identification of my specimens. 



Twenty specimens are before me from Colorado from the 

 prairie at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Denver and Fort 

 Collins. I have seen many more, now in the collections of 

 Doctor Barnes and Professor Gillette. 



Bandera virginella, n. sp. 



Allied to cupidinella, with the same pattern of markings and vena- 

 tion. It is smaller and whiter, the white of the veins spreading out, 

 so that the ocherous color shows only along submedian fold; the costa 

 is broadly white to base with a somewhat silvery sheen; rubbed speci- 

 mens look entirely silvery white like a miniature Crambus perlellus. 

 One specimen has a blackish dot on vein I at basal third, a small one 

 near the end of this vein, and a slight aggregation of scales above 

 on vein 2. 



Six specimens, Pullman, Wash., July 8, 24, 31, August 3, 

 6, 10, 1898 (C. V. Piper). One specimen bears the number 

 463 of the Washington Experiment Station in red ink. 



Type. No. 11851, U. S. National Museum. 



The specimen with the dots suggests binotella Zell., but it 



