202 SCOTOCAMPA; MATOPO; DELTA. By W. Warren. . 



similiaria. Ps. similiaria Men. (= argillacea Christ.) (42 c). Forewing grey white suffused with reddish fuscous 



thickly dusted with dark: the veins dark, on terminal area whitish; inner line represented only by an 

 oblique dark stria from costa; outer by an obscurely expressed oblique dark band from costa before apex 

 to inner margin, dentate externally, where it is followed by an oblique band of whitish suffusion; sub- 

 terminal line faint, pale, preceded by slight dentate black marks; a terminal series of black striae in- 

 wardly edged by whitish marks; no stigmata; hindwing white with dark veins; a diffuse grey cell-spot; 

 area beyond cell- irrorated with brown and with a faint subterminal band. W. Turkestan, the Tedschen 

 Oasis, and Bokhara. 



55. Genus: Scotocampa Stgr. 



Tongue aborted, minute; irons with a vertical ridge; palpi porrect, quite short; antennae of <J 

 serrate fasciculate; prothorax . and metathorax slightly crested; abdomen without crests; foretarsi with 

 curved claw-like spines on first segment, Type Scotocampa indigesta Stgr. 



indigesta. S. indigesta Stgr. (48c) Porewing fuscous, the veins finely streaked with white; a black streak below 



base of cell; inner and outer lines hardly traceable; subterminal white, dentate, only clear below middle, 

 crossed by black streaks in the interspaces; claviform a long white streak edged with black and emitting 

 a black streak to subterminal line; upper stigmata absent; fringe fuscous pencilled with white; hindwing 

 whitish; the terminal area with obscure grey streaks in the interspaces; a black cellspot; fringe white. 

 W. and E. Turkestan. 



56. Genus: Matopo Dist. 



Tongue present; frons with large rounded prominence, with corneous plate below it; palpi obliquely 

 upturned, the second segment well-scaled, the third short; thorax and abdomen with slight crests. Type 

 Matopo typica Dist. This is in the main a genus of tropical African species. 



Sect. II. Antennae of $ shortly serrate, of $ ciliated. 



selecta. M. selecta Walk. (= lobifera Moore). (48 c) Forewing ochreous white, suffused with redbrown; median 



area below cell dark grey; veins of terminal area dark, white-lined; inner line interrupted and obscure; 

 outer line strongly excurved above and as strongly incurved below, with patches of dark suffusion before 

 it; joined to an oblique brown shade from termen below apex; stigmata ochreous, the claviform elongate 

 with black outline; orbicular flattened; reniform with black lateral edges and linear centre; a pale sub- 

 costal streak; series of short black subterminal and terminal streaks in the interspaces; hindwing white; 

 veins dark towards termen, which is tinged with brown at apex and below vein 2; in the $ brown, paler 

 towards base, with the fringe white. An Indian insect which is also recorded from Egypt. 



57. Genus: Delta Saalm. 



Tongue present; palpi obliquely porrect, the second segment fringed with hair below, the third 

 short; frons smooth, with ridges of scales; antennae of $ ciliated; tegulae forming a dorsal ridge; thorax 

 with a ridge-like crest; abdomen with short basal crests. Type Delta stolifera Saalm. from Madagascar. 



intermedia. D. intermedia Brem. (= sikkimensis Moore) (42 c). Forewing ochreous suffused with red-brown; 



the cell, an oblique streak from apex to cell, and a streak along vein 2 ochreous white; a black streak 

 in submedian fold from base to middle, and one above inner margin from near base; a slight brown 

 streak in middle of cell; reniform stigma alone present, ochreous white with a rufous centre and pale bar 

 on it, ill-defined above, narrow and extending well below cell, preceded by a rufous wedge-shaped mark in 

 cell, and ending in a red-brown patch with dark streaks on the veins; the subterminal line shown across it 

 by dentate white marks with black centres and by black wedge shaped marks at vein 6; hindwing ochreous, 

 tinged with brown in $, with brown suffusion along termen. Originally described from Amurland; occur- 

 ring also in Japan, China, and Corea, and in Kashmir; throughout India and in S. Africa. 



gnorima. D. gnorima Piin.g. (42 c). Forewing pale brownish-grey; the cell, the submedian interval, and the 



space beyond cell bright redbrown; joined by an oblique dark brown streak from termen below apex; 

 veins finely black; a black streak from base below cell; lines only visible as sharp oblique streaks from 

 costa; claviform stigma narrow, whitish, with black outline; orbicular white, narrow, oblique and elongate, 

 with brown linear centre, like the claviform; reniform a very narrow lunule, with brown centre ringed 

 with white; two black sagittate marks on termen on veins 3 and 4; hindwing brownish grey, paler towards 

 base. Described from a single $ from Askabad, W. Turkestan. 



