REVISION OF PEORIINAE AND ANERASTIINAE 69 



Description. — Frons conical; labial palpi porrect, outer sides of 

 second and third segments clothed with white-tipped brown scales, 

 basal segments clothed with broad white scales; maxillary palpi 

 cylindrical, almost reaching frons; tongue exposed betw^een palpi; 

 antennae filiform, compressed, ciliate ventrally; ocelli absent; legs 

 brown to fuscous laterally, tarsi brown and speckled with white. 



Forewings with a brown-speckled white band anterior to cell; 

 veins traced wdth white and margined on both sides with a sprinkling 

 of brown scales; 9 veins; Ri from well before outer angle of cell; II2 

 from cell; R44.5 fused; Mj from upper outer angle; M2+3 fused and from 

 the angle; Cui from before the angle; Cu2 from well before the lower 

 outer angle of cell. Hindwing light brown above and below, slightly 

 darker toward apex; 7 veins; Sc and Rs long stalked; Cui stalked with 

 fused M24.3; Cu2 from well before the lower outer angle of cell. 



Male genitalia \vith uncus broadly triangulate, slightly tapering, 

 \vith apex broadly rounded, laterally and dorsocaudally setose. 

 Gnathos arms terminating in an anterior ventral hook; apical process 

 a simple posteriorly directed hook. Juxta U-shaped, wdth small 

 lateral knobs. Vincidum stout. Valvae distally rounded; costa tubular, 

 slightly tapering distally. Vesica unarmed. 



Female genitalia \\'ith ovipositor tapering distally, about as long as 

 basal width. Apophyses slender, well sclerotized; posterior about 

 five or six times as long as their basal separation; anterior about two 

 to four times as long as their basal separation. Ductus bursae long, 

 weakly sclerotized. Bursa small; \vith a group of three or four small 

 barlike signa near posterior end. Ductus seminalis threadlike; from 

 near or at posterior end of bursa near signa. 



Discussion. — The genus shows affinities to a number of other 

 phycitine genera and is probably closest to Anagasta Heinrich. The 

 great preponderance of males in collections suggests that females 

 are far less readily attracted to light. 



Key to the Species of Bandera Based Upon the Maculation 



1. Space between vein A2 and cell of forewing a pale yellow field sprinkled with 



brown or with browTi scales on fold of Ai virginella 



Space between vein A2 and cell of forewing a solid yellow field, not sprinkled 

 with brown ^ 



2. Basal area of costa yellow cupidinella 



Entire length of costa white, sprinkled with brown scales .... binotella 



Bandera binotella (Zeller) 



Figures 31, 68, 99, 136, 171 



Anerastia binotella Zeller, 1872, pp. 554-555. 



Bandera subluteella Ragonot, 1887, p. 19; 1889, p. 117. — Smith, 1891, p. 84 

 [listed in Phycitinae]. — Ragonot, 1901, pp. 410-411. — Hulst, 1902, p. 



