THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 82.] SEPTEMBER, MDCCCLXX. [Price 6d. 



A List of the Lepidoptera collected by J. K. Lord, Esq., 

 in Egypt^ along the African Shore of the Red Sea, 

 and in Arabia ; with Descriptions of the Species new 

 to Science, by F. Walker, Esq., F.L.S., G.S., &c. 



(Continued from p. 134.) 



(For localities in which insects were collected by Mr* 

 Lord, see page 48.) 



Gen. ScopuLA, Schrank. 



41. Scopula variabilis. F6?ma/e.-— Yellowish white. Head 

 with a blackish frontal tuft. Palpi compressed, lanceolate, 

 fringed, extending rather beyond the head, blackish on the 

 outer side ; third joint lanceolate. Antennae and legs smooth. 

 Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings. Fore 

 wings with a broad deeply undulating blackish stripe, which 

 commences on the costa at the base and joins the interior 

 border, and ends on the costa near the tip ; a blackish dot in 

 the disk. Hind wings with some blackish speckles, which 

 form an oblique slight abbreviated band. Wings beneath 

 with an oblique postmedial blackish band which is broadest 

 in the fore wings. Var. &. — Stripe of the fore wings much 

 dilated, and occupying the whole surface except a space 

 along the exterior border, and another along the basal part of 

 the interior border. Length of the body 3 lines ; expansion 

 of the fore wings 8j lines. Hor Tamanib. Harkeko. 



42. Scopula jiexifera. Male. Pale cinereous. Palpi 

 porrect, lanceolate, black above, extending somewhat beyond 

 the head ; third joint lanceolate, wholly black. Abdomen 

 extending somewhat beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft 

 small. Legs smooth, slender. Fore wings thickly speckled 

 with brown ; a broad blackish curved while-bordered stripe 

 extending from the base of the costa to three-fourths of the 

 length of the latter ; two black spots in the disk in front of 

 the stripe. Hind wings with a slender blackish postmedial 



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