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SCELOLOPHIA. By L. B. Prout. 
delectabilia¬ 
ria. 
hepaticaria. 
crossii. 
phorcaria. 
purpuras- 
cens. 
rubrotincta. 
nycteis. 
ignifera. 
astotn. 
latifasciata. 
littoralis. 
amechana. 
penthemaria. 
purpurata. 
subrubella. 
silky, the forewing broadly rosy in costal region. Panama and Costa Rica, the type series from the Canal Zone. 
A similar form occurs in West Ecuador (Paramba). 
B. J hindwing beneath with dense patch of raised ochreous scales on 
fold near base. 
S. delectabiliaria Moschl. (= variabilis Dyar) (15 h). The type $, from Porto-Rico, is rubbed, but I 
have not been able to find any racial deviation from the Cuban variabilis. The reddish tone, pale base and 
fine lines are characteristic. 
S. hepaticaria Guen. (15 h) is only known to me from the original description and Oberthur's figure, 
here reproduced. According to Benjamin close to crossii; he does not state wherein it differs, perhaps in the 
darker colour, especially proximally, and the more distinct pale bands. Maryland. 
S. crossii Hulst (= crossi Barnes & Me. D .) (15 li). I have no material of this or the preceding. “16 mm. 
Reddish violet, base and costa of forewing yellow, basal part mixed with violet, both wings crossed with 3 
faint irregular tremulous and angulate lines." Florida. Dyar says it looks like a dark form of variabilis, 
without the tendency to lightening of the ground and calls it dark purple, purplish shaded beneath, the lines 
dark yellow, broken into separate segments; the discal bars light and distinct; his specimen was a $ from Fort 
Myers. F. M. Jones found the species to be not rare on the Bermudas and bred it from larvae collected on 
Lantana odorata. 
S. phorcaria Guen. (— concessata Walk., flavicostaria Moschl.) (15 h). A fairly common Jamaican 
species and extending to the Bahamas and St. Vincent. Guenee's type came from Haiti, the other two from 
Jamaica. Intermediate between delectabiliaria and purpurascens, on the whole rather duller. Rather smaller 
than the latter; shows a similar but less pronounced tendency for the basal and terminal areas to be darkened. 
S. purpurascens Hulst (15 h). I have only one specimen and must quote Dyar: “Close to variabilis 
Dyar, but larger and brighter, apparently specifically separable, though evidently derived from an Antillean 
form”. Florida. — rubrotincta Hulst, of which only the G type was known to Dyar, “may be a suffused specimen 
of purpurascens” ; lines obsolete. Hulst founded on it a near genus Wauchula, which was certainly not war¬ 
ranted. 
S. nycteis Dru.ce (15 li). Moderately variable, but not closely like any other species. Dyar differen¬ 
tiates it from the rest of the non-purplish members of its group thus: “marks yellow, separated by red; margin 
more or less purple shaded; no metallic scales.” Hindtibia of the $ with 4 spurs. The name-typical form 
(Mexico and extending to Colombia) is more varied with band-like greyish shades than the following. — igni¬ 
fera Warr., from the Guianas, is the most reddish form. — astota Schaus, whether as a race or merely an 
aberration, is described as having the median shade broad and blackish, the subterminal band suffusing with 
dark marginal blotches above the anal angle. Aroa, Venezuela. — latifasciata Bastelb. (15 h). Generally rather 
large, rather darker than typical nycteis and with broader dark suffusions. Jimenez and elsewhere in Colombia 
and I think also in Peru. 
S. littoralis Prout (15 i). Hindtibia of the $ without the rudimentary 4th spur which is usually present 
in nycteis. Sex-patch of J hindwing apparently more compact, roundish rather less elongate, the wings in this 
sex rather broad, hindwing with termen slightly bent in the middle, its underside whiter. Dark and heavily 
suffused, most recalling latifasciata , sinuous outer band more proximally placed. W. Peru: Barranco (near 
Lima) and Callao. 
S. amechana Dyar. Founded on a badly rubbed dark purplish, the lines slight and without pron¬ 
ounced borders. Readily recognizable by the shape of the forewing, which has the apex sidifalcate, the termen 
slightly emarginate between this and a slight midterminal angulation. A $, redder and with more rosy tint 
beneath, has the same shape. Both came from Orizaba. 
S. penthemaria Dyar was accidentally published without locality, but I was informed by. the author 
that it was from Santiago de Cuba. Smaller than purpurata, the pale costal edge sharply marked and contrasted, 
the fragmentary marks which represent the lines distinct. 
S. purpurata Warr., founded on a $ from Orizaba, is differentiated from subrubella by the largely pale 
G hindwing and lighter rosy shading beneath; from penthemaria by its larger size and less sharp markings. 
S. subrubella Warr. (15 i). Recognizable by the strong dark rosy shading of the underside, with the 
hindwing red-shaded throughout. Upperside somewhat variable in colour, red or purple, the lines pale, frag¬ 
mentary. Described from the Maroni River, but reaching Venezuela and the Amazon. I have some doubts as 
to its distinctness from the following, which has priority of name. 
