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440. — Barnes and McDunnough, 1917, p. 150. — Hampson, 1918, p. 90. — 

 McDunnough, 1939, p. 36. [New synonymy.] 

 Bandera binotella (Zeller). — Ragonot, 1889, p. 117. — Hulst, 1890, p. 202.— 

 Smith, 1891, p. 84. — Ragonot, 1901, pp. 409-410. — Hulst, 1902, p. 440. — 

 Dyar, 1908c, p. 116. — Barnes and McDunnough, 1917, p. 150. — Hampson, 

 1918, pp. 89-90. — McDunnough, 1939, p. 36. 



Diagnosis. — The presence of a transverse posterior line of dots and 

 a transverse anterior dot on vein A2 of the forewing, a truncate 

 vinculum, and an incomplete transtilla each by itself distinguish this 

 species from other members of the genus. 



Description. — Frons about as long as diameter of eye, light brown; 

 vertex, occiput, tegula, and prothorax white to light brown dorsally, 

 gray brown laterally; abdomen light creamy brown dorsally, brown 

 ventraUy. 



ForeAving yellow between veins; discal cell, area between cell and 

 vein A2, and area posterior to A2 solid yellow; transverse posterior 

 variously developed as a row of dots on veins, best represented by a 

 dark spot near end of vein A2; a dark spot on vein A2 halfway between 

 tp line and wing base; light brown to brown on underside. 



Male genitalia Avith transtilla incomplete. Lateral knobs of juxta 

 well developed, setose. Vinculum rectangular, broadly truncate ante- 

 riorly. Aedeagus tapering posteriorly, subtruncate anteriorly. Eighth 

 abdominal segment of male bearing lateral hair tufts. 



Female genitalia with ovipositor sparsely setose. Ductus bursae 

 broad. 



Types. — A. binotella, in the British Museum (Natural History), 

 (from Zeller collection); B. suhluteella, in the Museum National 

 d'Histoire Naturelle. 



Type data. — A. binotella, in the original description Zeller reports 

 "Vaterland: Texas. Belfrage fing das Exemplar am 12. Juli." Type 

 examined by Mr. Paul Whalley. 



B. subluteella, lectotype male, hereby designated, labeled as follows: 

 "TYPE; WALSM; 1901 coll. E. L. Ragonot Museum Paris; Bandera 

 subluteella Rag. type orig. pi. XL f. 21; cf genitalia slide July-28- 

 1965 J. Shaffer No. 553." The specimen also bears a small handwritten 

 label inscribed AAdth "Col9," probably intended to be "Colo" (Colo- 

 rado). Ragonot may have interpreted the inscription as an abbrevia- 

 tion for California since that state is given as the type locality. I 

 have seen no specimens of binotella from California although the species 

 is found in Washington and therefore might be expected to occur in 

 northern California. 



Specimens examined. — 71 cf, 8 9. 



Distribution (Map 4). — Washington southeastward to Arizona 

 and Texas; eastern population on Atlantic Coastal Plain, New Jersey 

 to Massachusetts. 



