PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 87(2), 1985, pp. 475-479 TWO NEW PHYCITINAE (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE) FROM TEXAS AND ALABAMA Andre Blanchard and Edward C. Knudson (AB) 3023 Underwood, Houston, Texas 77025; (ECL) 808 Woodstock, Bellaire, Texas 77401. Abstract.— Salebharia atratella and Anderida peorinella, two new species of phycitine pyralids, are described. Adults, wing venation (of A. peorinella only), and male and female genitalia are figured. The following two new species in the pyralid subfamily, Phycitinae, are de-scribed from examples collected by the authors in Texas and Alabama. Although this subfamily was revised comparatively recently (Heinrich, 1956), at least 60 new species and 7 new genera have been described from America north of Mexico since this revision. There is little doubt that many more remain undescribed, especially from the American tropics. Phycitines frequently suffer from neglect, both from collectors and in museum drawers, perhaps because they are obscurely colored and marked and determinations are largely dependent on genitalic dis-section. However, the male and female genitalia are highly variable within the subfamily and usually provide good characters for species determination. The wing venation is also quite variable among the genera, and was used by Heinrich as the basis for his scheme of classification. In the author's experience, adult phycitines are readily attracted to ultraviolet light. In most Texas habitats, they often constitute a large percentage of smaller moths collected in the author's light traps. The larvae exhibit a wide range of habits, including foliage feeders, stem borers, feeders on scale insects, and pests of stored cereal products. Salebriaria atratella, Blanchard & Knudson, New Species Figs. 1-6 Head. — Front dark fuscous; vertex whitish ochreous; labial palpi upcurved, extending above vertex by Vi eye diameter, dark brown dorso-laterally, pale ochreous ventrally. Short third segments of labial palpi fuscous. Maxillary palpi dull orange aigrettes. Antennae light brownish ochreous, with black scale tuft in sinus at base of flagellum in male. Thorax medium fuscous dorsally, ochreous ventrally. Abdomen medium fuscous, with bands of ochreous scales at posterior margins of segments. Length of forewing. — Males: (N = 4), 6.6-6.9 mm, average 6.8 mm. Females: (N = 10) 6.7-7.8 mm, average 7.2 mm. Forewing. — Ground color dark fuscous, more intense basad of antemedial line and over middle of costal margin. Antemedial line white, outwardly oblique from
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