ART. 24 NEW AMERICAN MOTHS DYAR «5 



SCOPARIA ECHO, new species 



Ground light gray, blotched with olive-gray; lines whitish, nar- 

 row, the inner curved, the outer moderately centrally excurved; 

 blackish blotches for claviform and orbicular, the reniform constric- 

 ted, often T-shaped; subterminal shade whitish, waved, sometimes 

 touching the excurve oi outer line, preceded by heavy olivaceous 

 shading and followed by blackish submacular terminal band. Hind 

 wings sordid whitisli. In the female, the fore wing is more heavily 

 shaded with olivaceous blackish. 



Type.— Mule, Cat. No. 41342, U.S.N.M.; Victoria, British Co- 

 lumbia, August 21, 1920 (E, H. Blackmore). Paratypes, three males 

 and four females, as follows: Victoria, B. C, August 21, 1921 (W. R. 

 Carter) ; Victoria, B. C, August 6, 1919 (W. Downes) ; Fitzgerald, 

 B. C, August 22, 1921 (W. R. Carter) ; Victoria, B. C, September 

 3, 1921 (W. R. Carter) ; Victoria. B. C, August 17, 1909 (A. J. 

 Croker) ; Coldstream, B. C, August 12, 1920 (E. H. Blackmore) ; 

 Wellington, B. C, August 20, 1903 (T. Bryant). 



The specimens were originally classified under feimaldalis, which 

 was thus thought to reach the Pacific coast. This form, however, 

 has been rightly considered as a race of hasalis by Barnes and Mc- 

 Duimough, and is quite distinct from echo. 



SCOPARIA LEUCOPHTHALMA. new species 



Allied to echo; smaller, the dark shadings more olivaceous and 

 denser, not gray, the lines narrowed and contrasting whitish; clavi- 

 form scarcely indicated; orbicular a dash; reinform Y-shaped with 

 a little distinct white speck on its lower side. Expanse, 14 mm. 



r///>e.— Male, Cat. No. 41343, U.S.N.M. ; Victoria, British Colum- 

 bia. July 13, 1922 (W. R. Carter). Paratypes five males and one 

 female from the same locality and collector with dates as follows: 

 July 8, 1921; July T, 8, and 13, 1922; June 24 and 29, 1923. 



SCOPARLA BASALIS Walker 



•^coparia basalts Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., vol. 34, p. 1497, 1865. 

 ^GOparid biplagialis Walkeb, Cat. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., vol. 34, p. 1499, 



1865. 

 Scoparia libella Gkote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., vol. 4, p. 675, 1878. 

 Scoparia fernaldaUs Dyak, Ent. News, vol. 15, p. 72, 1904. 

 Scoparia obispalis Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 14, p. 106. 1906. 

 Scoparia. paUoralis Dyar, .Tourn. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 14, p. 106, 1906. 

 Scoparia bronzalis Barnes and Benjamin, Cont. Nat. Hist. Lep. N. A., vol. 



5, p. 48, 1922. 

 Scoparia ccrvalis McDunnough, Can. Ent.. vol. 59, p. 267, 1927. 



This is the common species of the northern Atlantic States, run- 

 ning south along the Blue Ridge Mountains to North Carolina. It 

 also runs west to British Columbia, fei^nuldalls being described from 



