102 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vol. xiv. 



Scoparia centuriella Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, 918, 1904. 



$ . Light ashen gray to dark blackish gray, usually pale ; lines dark, diffused, 

 the outer excurved over cell, the inner dark, often indented on the costa, the outer 

 pale edged ; a black linear claviform ; narrowly elliptical or linear orbicular, quad- 

 rate suffused, reniform, hour glass shaped or of two opposed cusps ; a dark shade 

 subapically and above tornus. Hind wing sordid, dark along the margin. Expanse, 

 29-32 nun. 



9 . Darker, the marks obscured or nearly entirely obsolete, the lines and reni- 

 form longest persistent. Expanse, 29-33 nim. 



Northern Europe to the Arctic regions ; Nova Scotia (Walker) ; 

 Arizona (Hulst). 



3^,1 9' Orono, Maine, Amherst, Mass (C. H. Fernald) ; 1 

 9, Arizona, labelled "Scoparia ninguidalis Hulst, type" (Coll. Prof. 

 C. H. Fernald) ; 3, Montana (through C. V. Riley) ; 12, Popof Is., 

 Alaska, July, 1899 (Harriman expedition) ; 26, Kaslo, B. C, June, 

 July, August (H. G. Dyar) ; 1, New York (C. V. Riley) ; 1, Platts- 

 burgh, N. Y., June 21, 1888 (H. G. Dyar) ; 6, Southern Utah, July, 

 1900 (O. C. Poling) ; 1, Glenwood Springs, Col., July (W. Barnes); 

 1, Pikes Peak, Col., above timber, July 21, 1901 (Dyar & Caudell). 



The Western form is larger and somewhat more contrasted in 

 color and may be distinguished as variety ninguidalis Hulst. 



Scoparia normalis Dyar. 



Scoparia normalis Dyar, Ent. news, xv, 71, 1904. 



Pale gray ; a black shade at base of fore wings ; inner line dark, slightly bent 

 at middle, thickened on costal two thirds by a broad black bar which absorbs orbicu- 

 lar and claviform ; reniform fused to costa by a black shade, formed of two super- 

 posed confluent ellipses, partly filled with black ; outer line pale, narrowly black 

 shaded within, bent outward slightly beyond reniform ; terminal space irregularly 

 black shaded, the shades succeeding the outer line on costa and inner margin and on 

 center of outer margin ; a row of black terminal points ; fringe dark gray with white 

 dashes at the ends of the veins. Hind wings soiled whitish, darkest along outer 

 margin. Expanse, 26 mm. 



One 9, Beulah, New Mexico, 8,000 feet (T. D. A. Cockerell). 

 It resembles the r^ of centuriella Schiff. , but is very different from the 

 O of that species. 



Type no. 7654, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Scoparia delphusa Druce. 



Scoparia delphusa Druce, Biol. Cent. -Am., Lep. Het., ii, 279, pi. Ixiv, f. J, 1895. 

 Scoparia delphusa Hampson, Trans, ent. soc. Lond., 234, 1897. 

 Scoparia delphusa Fernald, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4509, 1903. 



