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



lowed by a broad dark shade ; submarginal light space excised at middle by a black 

 mark resting on margin. Hind wings pale gray. Expanse 1 6 mm. 



One J 1 , Santa Rita Mts., Ariz., May 30, 1898 (E. A. Schwarz). 

 Type no. 9636, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Scoparia strigalis, new species. 

 Light gray, lines very obscure, darker ; outer line irregularly excurved over cell ; 

 a black basal dash to first line ; a long black dash for claviform ; a short black dash 

 for orbicular and a longer one for reniform ; two slender dashes in terminal area op- 

 posite the reniform dash ; a small dark apical shade. Hind wings silky gray. Ex- 

 panse 13-17 mm. 



Grimsby, Ontario (J. Pettit) ; Delaware Co., Pa., August 17 (P. 

 Laurent) ; Plummer's Is., Md., July 1, 1903 (A. Busck). 

 Type no. 9635, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Scoparia lugubralis Walker. 

 Scoparia lugubralis Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxiv, 1498, 1865. 

 Scoparia nominatalis Hulst, Trans. Am. ent. soc, xiii, I48, 1886. 

 Scoparia nominatalis Hampson, Trans, ent. soc. Lond., 233, 1897. 

 Scoparia lugubralis Hampson, Trans, ent. soc. Lond., 233, 1897. 

 Scoparia lugubralis Fernald, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4504, 1903. 

 Scoparia nominatalis Fernald, Bull. 5 2 , U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4505, 1903. 

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



Ashen gray to bluish gray, lines whitish ; inner line arcuate, edged without with 

 black, often strongly so, even forming a broad black band on costal half; claviform 

 faint, clouded or absent ; orbicular a dash, from which a line extends to reniform, or 

 two lines, enclosing an elliptical pale space that looks like an orbicular ; reniform of two 

 opposed cusps; outer line pale, rather narrowly excurved over cell, followed by a 

 dark shade, divided centrally; submarginal line obsolete. Hind wings subpellucid 

 pale grayish. Expanse 17-21 mm. 



St. Martin's Falls, Hudson Bay (Walker) ; Vancouver Is., B. C. 

 (Hulst). 



Los Angeles, Cal. (D. W. Coquillett) ; Arizona (Morrison) ; 

 Seattle, Wash., June 7, 1902 (T. Kincaid) ; Glenwood Springs, 

 Col., July 24-30 (Dr. Barnes) ; Pullman, Wash., July 26, 1898 

 (C. V. Piper) ; 6, Kaslo, B. C, August (J. W. Cockle, H. G. 

 Dyar) ; Denver, Col. (E. J. Oslar) ; Platte Canyon, Col., August 

 26, 1904 (E. J. Oslar) ; Wellington, B. C. (G. W. Taylor); White 

 Mts., N. H. (coll. Prof. C. H. Fernald). 



A figure of Walker's type has been made for me by Mr. Horace 

 Knight through the kindness of Sir G. F. Hampson. It has a faded 

 yellowish look, but otherwise is a specimen of nominatalis with little 



