NOVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXV. 1918. 407 



near end of cell. Palpus les.s long, rougher scaled beneath. Could be made 

 a section of Scotura. 



1. bugabensis bugabensis Druce, Biol. Centr. Amer., Ley. Het. ii. 223. tab. 61. 

 fig. 15 (1895) (Panama). 



la. bugabensis albibasis Warr., Nov. Zool. xiv. 200 (1907) {Stenoplastis) 

 (S.E. Peru). 



2. annulala Guer., Icon. Eigne Anim. 519 (1844) (Lithosia) (Mexico). 

 = bipartita Walk., List Lep. Ins. xxvii. 134 (1863) (Honduras). 



= nervosa Feld., Reise Novara, Lep. Het. tab. 139. fig. 43 (1875) (Mieza) 

 (Colombia). 



To Druce's localities {Biologia, ii. 222) I can add Venezuela and French 

 Guiana. 



Genus XII. Scotura. 



Scotura Walk., List Lep. Ins. ii. 524 (1854) (t.ype pyraloides Walk.). 



Cymopsis Feld., Reise Novara, Lep. Het. tab. 105. fig. 23, Erkl. p. 3 (indescr.) (t3'pe julviceps Feld.). 



Face with moderately appressed scales. Palpus shortish-moderate, densely 

 scaled beneath. Antenna in S ciliate. Abdomen long, moderately robust. 

 Wings strongly elongate. 



Forewing with cell rather less than one-half (in o cJ of Sect. I. much shorter), 

 DC long, oblique, DC and DC short, SC long-stalked, R^ slightly or scarcely 

 before rhiddle of DC, M' longish-stalked (in §? of Sect. I just separate), M' (in 

 the typical section) from near end of cell or even very shortly stalked, Hind- 

 wing with cell about one-half, DC oblique, especially behind, R' about central, 

 M' stalked, M' not apjoroximated. 



Sect. I. — Venation in <J somewhat distorted, with cell of forewing very 

 short, a fovea beneath at base of R' and R' ; ? with cell much longer (almost 

 one-half), M' not stalked. 



1. transversa Warr., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. 413 (1906) [Stenoplastis) 

 (sequ. subsp. ?) (French Guiana). 



Also from Surinam. 



2. auriceps Butl., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878. p. 60 (Amazons). 



3. atelozona Prout, sp. nov.* (huj. sect. ?) (Amazons). 

 Sect. II. — -Venation normal ; ? with M' of forewing stalked. 



4. ovisigna Prout, sp. nov.f (huj. sect. ?) (Colombia). 



* Scotura atelozona sp. nov. $. 35 mm. Head and palpus orange. Thorax and abdomen 

 slate-grey, beneath whitish. 



Forewing not extremely narrow, costa slightly arched ; dark mouse -grey with a slaty tinge, 

 the veins proximally paler ; a white band just beyond the cell, from close to costa to just behind 

 , submedian {old, 2 mm. wide at costa. broadening gradually to nearly 3 ram. Hindunng simi- 

 larly coloured, slightly paler (but not pale-veined) proximally, the white patch pear-shaped, behind 

 cell-fold and proximal part of R2, its pointed (proximal) end somewhat dusted with grey, its distal 

 part with a small, partly grey-dusted anterior extension reaching the stalk of SC^ — R^ ; beneath 

 with the white patch much extended, so as to reach base, and with a whitish suffusion between 

 the patch and abdominal margin. Fonte Boa, Upper Amazons, August 1907 (S. M. Klages). 

 Type in coll. Tring Mus. Shape, facies, and venation suggest that it belongs to this section. 



f Scotura ovisigna sp. nov. $, 35 mm. Superficially similar to Cteptophasia scisaa Warr., 

 but with the cell of the forewing quite short, AP longish-stalked. Abdomen with middle of venter 

 infuscated. 



Forewing with the orange patch placed proximally of middle of wing (just outside cell), oval, 



2-3 mm. in width and reaching from C to M^. Hindwing with the bomidary of the orange patch 



from costa to M^ rather more regularly oblique than in C. scissa, the abdominal margin scarcely at 

 all mixed with orange. Bogota. Type in coll. Tring Mus. 



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