SCOPELODES. 
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LIMACODID^. 
SCOPELODES, Westw. 
Scopelodes testacea. (Plate CI. fig. 5.) 
Scopelodes uuicolor, WalJcei- (nec Westwood), Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1104. 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 unicolor of Westwood is a smaller and perfectly distinct species from Java. 
Scopelodes sericea. (Plate CI. fig. 6.) 
Scopelodes sericea, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 63. n. 3 (1880). 
Allied to S. lestacea; 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 bands ; 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. unicolor, 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'. lestacea, but difl'ering 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 ai'ca crossed by testaceous veins j 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 se condaries are on the uj)per surface. Expanse of wings, ^ 53 millim., $ 57 millim. 
S > Darjiling; ? , Silhet. 
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