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mal female; the type is before me from the Fernald collection), 

 toniiplagalis Dyar, alialis Barnes and McDunnough, penumhralis 

 Dyar, 'pcdlidalls Dyar, strigalis Dyar, schwarzalis Dyar, and nor- 

 TTUilis DysLV. 



SCOPARIA TERSELLA Zeller 



Scoparia tersella Zeller, Stett, Ent. Zeit., vol. 33, p. 476, 1872. 

 Described from Colombia and not at present before me. The inner 

 pale line of fore wing is strongly oblique as in the following species. 

 The expanse, according to Zeller's figure, is about 18 mm. 



SCOPARIA PUSILLA Dyar 



Scoparia pusilla Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 47, p. 320, 1914. 



A small narrow-winged species of the pattern of tersella. Common 

 on the Atlantic side of Panama, but not elsewhere reported. 



SCOPARIA SUBTERSA, new species 



In general as in pus-ilia Dyar, but larger. Fore wing yellowish 

 gray, more or less overlaid with brown irrorations and blotches; 

 lines pale, the inner strongly oblique from basal fourth of costa to 

 middle of inner margin, which it reaches remote from the termina- 

 tion of the outer line; outer line flexuous, inbent subcostally; clavi- 

 form and orbicular represented by black streaks, reniform blotched; 

 a dark patch on costa above it and one within outer line ; a pale sub- 

 terminal line, a little flexed, followed by dotted dark shading. Hind 

 wing white, slightly stained. Expanse, 14 mm. 



Type.— Male, Cat. No. 41347, U.S.N.M.; Volcan Santa Maria, 

 Guatemala, October (Schaus and Barnes). Paratypes, 14 specimens 

 of both sexes from the same locality and collectors; two males, 

 Jalapa, Mexico (Schaus collection) ; one male, Orizaba, Mexico 

 (Schaus collection) ; seven specimens, Purulha, Sitio, and Juan 

 Vinas, Costa Rica (Schaus and Barnes) ; one female, Trinidad, West 

 Indies (A. Busck) ; a single specimen from Castro, Parana, Brazil, 

 seems indistinguishable, but is not made a paratype on account of 

 the geographical separation. It would seem that all these forms 

 should be referable to tersella; but in that the measurement which 

 Zeller gives of one wing is three-quarters the expanse of the speci- 

 mens before me, and also he figures the two lines of fore wing as 

 meeting on the inner margin, which is not so in the species here 

 described. 



SCOPARIA EXTINCTA Dyar 



Scoparia extinvta Dyar. Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 9, p. 67, 1921. 

 This species foljiows here, though the markings are so faint that 

 the obliquity of the inner line can be made out in certain specimens 

 only. The species denigata Dyar and rigidalis Barnes and Mc- 

 Dunnough, previously referred to. are allied. 



