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not indented proxinially on M, distally forming a strong carve in its posterior half, 

 so as to meet the outer line on hindmargin; DC and the whitish mark on it more 

 oblique outwards, outer line rather more markedly excurved, closely approaching 



central patch at costa, the outer pale patch consequently pear-shaped. Hindwing 



with the central patch much broader and more solid, its proximal edge rather near 

 base, not indented, DC as on forewing, subtenninal spot between radials much 

 enlarged. 



Fak-Fak, Dutch New Guinea, 1700 ft., January — February 1908. Type and 

 paratype iu coll. L. B. Prout. 



39. Problepsis craspediata rotifera subsp. nov. 



Differs from Warren's name-type {Nov. Zool. iv. 222), from German and 

 British New Guinea in that the forewing bears a large, round (though not perfectly 

 solid) blackish spot shortly beyond (distally to) the discocellulars. 



Dutch New Guinea : near Oetakwa River, Snow Mountains, up to 3500 ft., 

 October — December 1910 (A. S. Meek), type in coll. Tring Mus. ; also from Ninay 

 Valley, Central Arfak Mountains, 3500 ft., November 1908— January 1909. 



Scopula Schrank. 



Scopula Schrank, Fau/ia Boicaxi. (2), 162 (1802). 



Acidalia Tr., Schmett. Eur. v. (2) 438 (1825), (nee Hb. Verz. 31, 1818). 



Calothysanis Hb., Verz. 301 (1826?). 



Emmiltis Hb., Verz. 309 (1826?). 



Leptomeris Hb., Verz. 310 (1826?). 



Arrhostia Hb., Verz. 311 (1826 ?). 



Craspedia Hb., Verz. 312 (1826?). 



Dosithea Dup., Hist. Nat. Lep. vii. (2) 108 (1829). 



Cymatida Sodoff., Bull. Mose. x. (6) 91 (1837). 



Synelys Hülst, Tr. Amer. Ent. Sog. xxiii. 300 (1896). 



On the nomenclature of this large and very natural genus a good deal has 

 been already written. In The Entomologist, xxxix. 266, I showed that Schrank's 

 name of Scopula had for its type ornata Schrank, but I thought that that name 

 might possibly be restricted to the immediate group of ornata, and that the large 

 residue might continue to be called Acidalia {Trans. City Lond. Ent. Soc. xx. 30). 

 But I am now convinced they cannot possibly be separated generically, and as it is 

 now accepted that Hübner's Acidali' was published before Treitschke's (see 

 Sherborn and Pi out, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ix. 179), the time has arrived for 

 the drastic and final change. I may add that in Trans. City Lond. Ent. Soc. 

 xx. 25-26, I cited the types of nearly all the generic names involved, but by an 

 unfortunate printer's error a line was dropped out. Pyctis Hb. 309 has type 

 aureolaria Hb. (L.B.P. sei.) and the published note refers to Leptomeris Hb. 310. 

 For Calothysanis the first selection of a type was Butler's {Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1881, p. 342), namely imitaria Hb. ; an exceedingly bad choice, the only advantage 

 of which is that it saves the long-used name Timandra Dup. for amata L. 



40. Scopula bifalsaria grisescens subsp. nov. 



Lacks the brownish admixture of name-typical bifalsaria Prout (Seitz, Macrolep. 

 iv. 65) and the lines are not diffused into bauds. 



Vrianatong, Tibet. A series in coll. L. B. Prout. 

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