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fringe feebly and irregularly dark-spotted. Hind wing with a strong dark 
inner-marginal spot near base; median shade strong, proximal to the black 
cell-dot; postmedian line similarly formed to that of fore wing, subterminal 
shading stronger; terminal dots and fringe as on fore wing. 
Underside more weakly marked, the hind wing paler; fore wing with ante- 
median and median lines obsolete, the proximal part of the wing (especially | 
in cell) being suffused with dark grey. : | 
Zululand: Eshowe, 6 January 1916 (A. J. T. Janse). Type in coll. Janse. I 
Cape: Grahamstown, a worn S in coll. Joicey. | 
I have already {Nov. Zool. xxii. 326) referred the $$ provisionally to | 
crescentifera Warr. {Nov. Zool. ix. 504), which has different d leg-structure. i 
13. Scapula pelloniodes Tiov. | 
d", 25 mm. Head and body fawn-colour, more ochreous beneath. Antenna 
with moderately long (3-4), strong, well-separated pectinations. Hind tibia | 
slender, without spurs; hind tarsus not shortened. 
Fore wing not very broad, termen only very gently curved; fawn-colour, i | 
rather smoothly scaled ; a moderately sharp black cell-dot ; lines greyish, not . J 
very distinct; antemedian obsolete; median shade little thickened, scarcely 1, 
curved, placed just beyond the cell-dot; postmedian line slender, slightly | - 
nearer to cell-dot than to termen, nearly parallel with latter but slightly I 
sinuous ; proximal subterminal shade present, slightly approaching postmedian | '' 
line on middle of wing ; distal subterminal absent ; subterminal line very feeble, | - 
slightly strengthened midway between the veins ; fringe fairly long, concolorous. f 
Hind wing rather long in proportion to its width, termen smooth ; appreciably % 
more ochreous-tinged than fore wing ; median and postmedian lines of fore ^ : 
wing feebly continued and subterminal shade still more feebly. | ;; 
Underside slightly more ochreous, paler on the hind than on the fore wing; | :: 
cell-dot and postmedian line indicated. | " 
Orange River Colony: Harrismith, i January 1916. Type in coll. Janse. U; 
I do not know of any Scopula with which this may well be compared ; the I 
coloration recalls Rhodostrophia inconspicua Butl., though slightly duller. f 
$,23 mm. Head and body whitish with a tinge of buff and with fine and | 
sparse dark irroration. Frons slightly prominent, on its outer side dull clay- I 
colour. Palpus about i|, rather stout, 2nd and 3rd joints mostly dull clay- |i 
colour, the latter white at tip. Antenna with slight bristles. A clay-coloured | '; 
spot on side of head and neck. Legs tinged with the same, especially proxi- ; 
mally. || 
Fore wing with costa slightly arched, especially posteriorly, apex rather | : 
acute, termen oblique, almost straight anteriorly, slightly curved behind | : 
middle; areole moderate, 5 C^ shortly stalked with SC^~^; cream-buff, with |i 
fine but copious dark irroration ; lines grey, rather slender ; antemedian not 1 1 
strong, from one-third hind margin, parallel with termen to middle of cell 
near cell-dot, then recurved but obsolescent ; cell-dot minute, blackish ; median | i 
shade fine, beyond middle, extremely gently incurved, closely approaching the |i 
cell-dot ; postmedian rather more sharply expressed, between and ' 
parallel with termen, posteriorly curving very slightly towards it, in front of » 
making a more noticeable outward curve, costally obsolescent; space be- I 
tween postmedian and subterminal grey-shaded ; subterminal pale, moderately | 
thick, proximally crenulate; a narrower pale line at termen; terminal line not | 
very strong, broken into dots and dashes ; fringe irrorated with grey, two or | 
