SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
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S. plantagenaria Hulst (16 c). Hindleg of slender, the tarsus long but the tibia spurless, in this differing plantagena- 
from the similarly marked canthema. A small whitish -species with grey markings, somewhat recalling the margine- 
punctata group of the Old World. Texas (loc. typ.) and Florida. 
S. grasuta Schaus (16 c). “Vertex white. Wings whitish, thickly irrorated with grey scales; a minute grasuta. 
black point in the cell; lines very indistinct; outer line like a broad darker grey shade; a terminal black line 
interrupted by veins.” Orizaba. On the type I noted “ marginepunctata (Vol. 4, pi. 4 h) group, fascicles long, 
tibia slender, spurless, tarsus at least as long; very near plantagenaria, rather more bluish or violet-grev”. Prob¬ 
ably variable; the topotypical $ here figured has the irroration and markings brow n - gi'ey, the outer line 
(postmedian) macular or, strictly speaking, accompanied by two brown-grey spots. — ab. ( ? subsp.) admes nov. admes. 
Abdomen with a white spot at base (discernible, however, in the one grasuta before me); forewing at least as 
elongate relatively as in hieronyma (16 c) costal spots weak, proximal area suffused with brown; both wings 
with subterminal line sharply white. Guatemala: Purula (Champion), the unique type a mixed by Druce 
among “ Boarmia” novaria Walk. (!). 
S. nacida Dogn. (18 e). Easily recognizable from our figure. Antennal ciliation of the S long, tibia nacida. 
moderately dilated, tarsus about % tibia. Forewing beneath suffused except at liindmargin, hindwing white; 
both wings with strong cell-dot, strong terminal line and irregular line near termen (about as the postmedian 
of the upperside), forewing also with subterminal shades. S. Ecuador (type) to E. Peru. — cinerosaria Wan. cinerosaria. 
is much more densely irrorated on the upperside than most nacida , the markings standing out less sharply, the 
cell-dots perhaps less large. Dognin’s type, however, is a well-dusted example and it is possible that the two 
names should be regarded as synonymous. Underside as in the type form. Carabaya, 3000—6000 feet. 
S. infota W arr. (16 c). At least as pointed-winged as nacida but much smaller and always of a very infota. 
dark grey. Antennal ciliation of the S not long, hindtarsus nearly as long as tibia. The originals, 2 AS from 
Bolivia (Rio Songo to Rio Suapi), are perhaps not quite so blackish as the abundant Carabaya material sub¬ 
sequently received and seem to have the sinuosities of the termen of the hindwing less marked. 1 therefore 
regard — perfumosa Warr. (16 c) as a probable race, scarcely variable, the course of the lines sometimes scarcely perfumosa. 
traceable on the black-grey ground, but apparently identical with that of i. infota. Carabaya, chiefly at altitudes 
of 9000 feet and upwards, especially plentiful at Agualani. 
S. convictorata Snell., from Ubaque (Colombia) is unknown to me, but is said to be a very ordinary convidorata. 
Acidalia (Scopula ) of the size of Sterrha seriata (Vol. 4, pi. 4 d) but with the markings so similar to those of 
incanata (Vol. 4, pi. 4 i) that it looks like a miniature edition thereof, with finely dentate median line, on the 
forewing following, on the hindwing preceding the black cell-dot; the wings, however, are more elongate and 
it may well be a lighter (“greyish white”) relative of infota , with a median line more nearly as in nacida. 
S. stenoptera Prout. Expanse 19 mm. Antennal ciliation about as long as diameter of shaft; hind- stenoptera. 
tibia someAvhat elongate, dilated, tarsus about 1 Wings narrow for a Scopula, recalling in shape those of 
Lobocleta borunta , but with the coloration of L. jamaicensis (white, with blackish irroration); lines irregularly 
dentate, brownish-grey, on forewing slightly thickened and blackened at costa and liindmargin; cell-dot and 
terminal dots strong, the latter slightly lunulate. Hindwing with termen subcrenulate, a slight, shallow excision 
between the radials (shallower than in perfumosa, 16 c). Peruvian Amazons: Ucayali, the type A only. A slightly 
whiter <$ from Callanga, Cuzco. Quite distinct in shape from convictorata as figured by Snellen. 
S. conotaria Schaus. Hindwing smooth-margined, as in convictorata, but appreciably broader-winged conotaria. 
and with a tinge of buff in the ground-colour, the cell-dots minute, the postmedian on the forewing somewhat 
punctiform; terminal line interrupted at the veins, otherwise rather thick, inclined in places (especially on the 
hindwing) to assume a subtriangular form. S. E. Brazil: Sao Paulo and Castro. 
S. perlimbata Snell. (= obsoleta Prout). Larger than the other South American Scopula which have p erlimbata. 
this colouring, the brown markings stronger and forming a band-like shade outside the postmedian. Structure 
much as in vinocinctata, the antennal teeth of the stronger. The name-type, from Colombia, differs from the 
figured race in the suppression of the characteristic cell-mark, which is at best indicated by a faint liglit-brown 
streak. — atridiscata Warr. (16 c). Cell-mark of forewing long and thick, blackish. A constant race, or possibly atridiscata. 
separate species, in S. E. Peru. 
S. vinocinctata Guen. (16d). Ciliation of A antenna long, hindtibia strongly dilated, tarsus much abbrevia- vinocinctata. 
ted. Ante- and postmedian lines punctiform; cell-mark of forewing large, round-oval, light brownish, dark- 
ringed. Brazil. 
S. rubrocinctata Guen. (= rufifimbria Warr.) (16 c). Both the cell-dots punctiform, costal edge less rubrodnc- 
darkened, terminal line broken into black dots, other lines less strongly sinuate than in vinocinctata. “Brazil 
given by Gltenee, may indicate Para, from which locality I have seen the species. Warren’s type came from 
Palcazu, Junin. 
