SCOPELODES. 3 



LIMACODIDtE. 



SCOPELODES, Westw. 



Scopelodes testacea. (Plato CI. fig. 5.) 

 Scopelodes uuicolor, Walker (nee Westuiood), Cat. Lep. Set. v. p. 11 04. n. 1 (1855). 



Primaries and thorax shining brownish testaceous, the surface slightly undulating : 

 secondaries pale shining golden ochreous, with white-tipped fringe. Palpi grey, with white 

 subapical and black apical band; abdomen deep ochreous, with two or three dorsal black 

 tufts ; anal segment black. Expanse of wings 72 millim. 



Silhet and Moulmein. 



The Scopelodes uuicolor of Westwood is a smaller and perfectly distinct species from Java. 



Scopelodes sericea. (Plate CI. fig. 6.) 

 Scopelodes sericea, Butler, Ann. 4' Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 63. n. 3 (1880). 



Allied to S. testacea ; wings and body of the same general colour, but the primaries 

 brilliantly sericeous and crossed by three or four irregular indented lines, which (when viewed 

 obliquely) appear to be the margins of irregular reddish bauds ; the general colour above is 

 sandy yellow, the wings with a rust-red marginal line extending for a short distance into the 

 fringe ; fringe of secondaries brilliantly sericeous : the palpi, instead of being black and white 

 as in S. uuicolor, are reddish orange ; the abdomen is sericeous ochreous, with black caudal 

 tuft. The wings below have the costal and apical areas washed with blackish, upon which 

 the veins are ochreous; body as above. Expanse of wings 74 millim. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale \ Sadler). 



Allied to S. testacea, but differing in the more sericeous and apparently undulated 

 character of the primaries and the different form and coloration of the palpi. 



Scopelodes ursina. (Plate CI. figs. 7 & 8.) 



Primaries in both sexes sericeous bronzy reddish brown; fringe grey, silvery in the 

 male : secondaries of male sericeous smoky greyish brown ; the outer margin and base of 

 fringe golden reddish brown ; fringe tipped with whitish : thorax reddish brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous, with blackish dorsal tufts and anal segment. Secondaries of female testaceous, with 

 broad smoky greyish-brown external area crossed by testaceous veins ; margin and base of 

 fringe testaceous ; tips of fringe greyish: thorax dark reddish brown; palpi dull blood-red, 

 with white subapical and black apical band ; abdomen testaceous (apparently with blackish 

 dorsal tufts and anal segment) : on the under surface all the wings are coloured in the same 

 way as the secondaries are on the upper surface. Expanse of wings, g 53 millim., ? 57 millim. 



cJ, Darjiling; J , Silhet. 



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