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SCOTURA. By Dr. Martin Hering. 
transversa. 
contracta. 
auriceps. 
longipalpa- 
ta. 
atelozona. 
ovisigna. 
signata. 
flavicapilla. 
soror. 
discolor. 
nigricaput. 
venata. 
nervosa. 
nigrata. 
intermedia. 
leucophleps. 
retracta. 
distincta. 
peruviana. 
vestigiata. 
longigutta. 
13. Genus: Scotura Whr. (Cymopsis Fldr.). 
In the forewing the 2nd radial is forked, in running order the 2nd, 5th, 3rd, and oth radials; the 1st 
cubitus is at least in the forked, the discoidal cell y 2 of the wing at most, the 2nd median nearer to the 1st 
or midway between the 1st and 3rd, antennae of $ combed. Palpi short. 
Sc. transversa Warr. (68 k). Blackish-brown forewings with partly lighter veins and a broad yellow 
transverse band which continues also on the blackish-brown hindwing in a yellow costal-marginal spot before 
the apex. Beneath the markings are broader and lighter. Guiana. 
Sc. contracta Dgn. is like transversa, but the hindwing is black, only beneath with yellow traces 
at the cross-vein and in the cell. Expanse 26 mm. Upper Amazon River. 
Sc. auriceps Btlr. (68 k). Forewing brown, with lighter veins, a white transverse band, hindwing 
black with a slight greyish-blue tinge. Head as in contracta yellow. Amazons. 
Sc. longipalpata Dgn. Palpi 3 times as long as the head. Forewing black, veins lighter, with a yellow 
transverse band which ends already on the analis. Hindwing black, in the hindmarginal half with a blue lustre, 
four fifths of costal margin white. Beneath the band of the forewing traverses the analis, hindwing with a white 
costal margin and abdominal half. 30 mm. Amazons. 
Sc. atelozona Prt. (68 1) is similar to auriceps (68 h). The white band of the forewing is narrower, on 
both sides pointed, reaching neither the costal margin nor the analis. Hindwing with a white central spot. 
Upper Amazon River. 
Sc. ovisigna Prt. is similar to Cleptophasia scissa Warr. (68 i), the spot on the forewing basally to the 
centre of the wing, oval, extending from the subcosta to the 2nd cubitus. The black margin of the hindwing 
is less angular at the 3rd median and extends rather straight to the 1st cubitus. Hindmargin feebly dusted 
with orange. Colombia. 
Sc. signata sp. n. Quite similar to the following, but the hindwing with a narrow whitish central 
area, similar to that of some races of nervosa, but the veins in the forewing not lighter. B type from Thomar 
(Rio Negro) in the Berlin Museum. 
Sc. flavicapilla Hbn. (= pyraloides Wkr., uniformis Mschlr.). Head ochreous, wings uni-coloured 
brownish-grey, hindwing with a slight steel-blue tinge. Guiana, Venezuela, Amazons. 
Sc. soror sp. n. altogether resembles flavicapilla, it is somewhat more elongate, more diaphanous, 
the head quite uni-coloured grey. Upper Amazon River, $ type from S. Paulo da Olivenca (Upper Amazon). 
Sc. discolor Warr. (68 1) is similar to soror, but the forewing with three dark dentate transverse lines. 
Brazil. 
Sc. nigricaput Dgn. Like the preceding. Forewing quite pale black, hindwing the same, somewhat lighter 
(It may be that soror is merely a light form of this species). Upper Amazon River. 
Sc. venata Btlr. Forewing greyish-brown, veins white, hindwing white, costal margin grey, distal 
margin broadly blackish-brown, the hind-margin remains white; head orange. Expanse about 30 mm. Amazons. 
Sc. nervosa Schs. Forewing grey, veins whitish, hindwing diaphanous white with a black costal 
margin, distal margin and hind-margin showing a slight steel-blue lustre. Head ochreous. Venezuela. — 
In nigrata Warr. from Guiana in the <$ the white area of the hindwing is covered with blackish hair, in the 2 
the cross-vein is black; — intermedia Warr. resembles the nomenclatural race, but the white central spot of 
the hindwing does not reach the base. Surinam. — In leucophleps Warr. (68 1) the central spot of the hindwing 
is tapering and ends right before the distal margin. Central America. -—- retracta subsp. n., from Colombia, 
has a central area in the hindwing, that is quite retracted and hardly extends distally beyond the cell (<$ type 
in the Berlin Museum). — In distincta .subsp. n., from the Upper Amazon River, the otherwise indistinct border 
of the central area in the hindwing is distinctly prominent, the central area itself shorter. -— In the Peruvian 
race peruviana subsp. n. (68 1) the area is distally not tapering, but uniformly broad, with a slight projection 
at the fork of media and cubitus. (2 type from Huayabamba in the Berlin Museum). Peru,-Bolivia. 
Sc. vestigiata Prt. differs from the otherwise similar nervosa in the following marks: palpi less glaringly 
orange, cell of $ forewing shorter, followed on the upper surface by an indistinctly defined whitish spot between 
the median branches, on the hindwing the posterior margin is narrower black. Expanse 32 to 34 mm. Ecuador. 
Sc. longigutta Warr. (681). Forewing blackish-brown, veins paler grey, hindwing brownish-black, 
with along gutti form white central spot enclosing the distal half of the cell; its distal edge extends from the 
bifurcation of veins 6 and 7 to the bifurcation of 3 and 4, the lower edge parallel to the upper one along the 
2nd cubitus, at the ends rounded off. Forewing beneath with a small white spot distally to the cell, in the 
hindwing beneath the white spot is broader, pear-shaped, extending narrow to the base, hind-margin pale 
grey. Head and palpi deep orange. Expanse 30 mm. Upper Amazon River. 
