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ANERASTIINAE 



Altoona ardiferella Hist. 



There appears to be an unfortunate niix-up in the types of the 

 species; the species was described as Altoona ardiferella (Ent. Am. 

 IV, 118) from material from Texas (no further data given) ; Ragonot 

 in his List of N. Am. Phycids (Ent. Am. V, 116) transfers it to 

 Zophodia; Hulst in his revision (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. XVII, 208) again 

 places it in Altoona, listing it from Texas and N. Mex. and disagreeing 

 with Ragonot on the ground that the species shows an "entire absence 

 of tongue"; Ragonot in his Monograph figures the species (PI. XXIV, 

 Fig. 14) placing it in Tolima in an addenda to Vol. II. In Dyar's 

 Catalogue Hulst places the species in Saluria giving its distribution 

 as Texas, Colo., N. Mex., Cal.; Dyar (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. VI, 159) 

 makes nigromaculcUa Hist, a synonym and places it in the genus 

 Pectinigeria Rag. 



In the Hulst collection the so-called type of ardiferella is labelled 

 Colo. (July) and is probably spurious as it does not agree well with 

 the description ; the only Texas specimen is in a small series imder 

 the label nigroniaculella and is a specimen of Zophodia dilatifasciella 

 Rag. ; the description fits this specimen rather better than it does the 

 Colorado "type", especially the statement regarding the presence of a 

 basal dash, but in view of Hulst's definite remark that the tongue is 

 entirely lacking we hardly thing it wise to accept this as type. Rag- 

 onot's figure seems quite accurate but we doubt if this equals nigro- 

 maculcUa Hulst ; it is possible that the true type was lent Ragonot 

 to figure and never returned, but until the Ragonot collection can be 

 carefully examined we imagine the identity of ardiferella will remain 

 doubtful; in any case it seems hardly wise to accept any specimen in 

 the Hulst Coll. as type ; for the present we believe that Ragonot's 

 figure must be considered as typical. On the strength of a very similar 

 species of which both sexes are before us and which Dr. Dyar has 

 been calling ardiferella Hist, we believe that this group will fall into 

 the genus Parramatta Hamp. (1901, Rag. Mon. Phyc, II, 366). The 

 S 's are without any antennal tuft and vein 10 of primaries is widely 

 separated from 8 and 9. Our new species we describe as follows : 



