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ANTILYCAUGES; SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
pinyuis. 
cineraria. 
imp ersonata. 
macescens. 
accurataria. 
anaitisaria. 
dimoera. 
moderate, slightly excurved, dull orange band from y 3 costa to liindmargin near tornus, separated only by a 
line white line from a rather broad fuscous-ochreous distal band. Hindwing dull whitish, overlaid with fuscous, 
2 lines remaining whitish. Expanse 18 mm. A <$ from Broken Hill. New South Wales. 
34. Genus: Antilycauges Prout. 
(See Yol. 4, p. 51.) 
Palpus moderate, lacking the long hair of Dasybela. Antenna in the $ pectinate. Cell of forewing long. 
1st subcostal arising from the areole. Hindwing with 2nd subcostal shortly stalked, 2nd radial central. Probably 
still nearer to Scopula sect. Pylarge , differing chiefly in the longer cells and the pectinate antenna; the approxi¬ 
mation of the costal of the hindwing to the cell is longer than is normal in Scopula. Only one species. 
A. pinguis Swinh. (Vol. 4, pi. 5 b). Distal margins less rounded than in D. achroa. Forewing with cell-dot 
distinct, antemedian line unusually far from base, median shade faint and diffuse, sometimes scarcely discernible, 
postmedian dentate, some dark shading on proximal side of the sinuous subterminal, almost reaching the post¬ 
median except at costa; sometimes also a terminal shade which almost obliterates the subterminal. Hindwing 
somewhat more weakly marked. Tonkin, S. and E. China, the Chusan Islands and Formosa, the type from 
Formosa. 
35. Genus: Scopula Schrank. 
(See Yol. 4, p. 51, as Acidalia ; Suppl.-Vol. 4, p. 33; Yol. 16, p. 61.) 
A cosmopolitan genus, consisting already of well over 500 describes species, to which additions are 
constantly being made. Palpus rather short or moderate, moderately smooth-scaled. Antenna of the <$ generally 
dentate-fasciculate (the few pectinate species are chiefly African). Hindtibia in the with 2 spurs (sect. Pylarge), 
or 1 spur ( vigilata Prout, Suppl.-Vol. 4, p. 39; see also cineraria below) or in the overwhelming majority of species 
spurless; in the $ with 4 spurs. Forewing with areole simple. Hindwing with 2nd subcostal separate, connate 
or very shortly stalked, 2nd radial not or very little before middle of discocellulars, 1st median separate. The 
C genitalia and the early stages have been noticed in our other volumes; the extremely slender larvae should 
be sought for among herbage. 
A. Section: hindtibia o f $ wit li ter m i n a 1 s p u r s ( Pylarge, H.-Sch.). 
S. cineraria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 3 k). Palpus longer than in impersonata ; generally larger and less brownish 
grey, forewing with costal margin more arched, postmedian and subterminal lines on the whole less straight 
(though somewhat variable in imper sonata). Japan (type), the Riu-kiu Islands, Corea and apparently part of 
China. Sterneck has recorded 2 from Ta-tsien-lu; lie tells me (in lit.) that in one case there is only one 
spur on the hindtibia. 
S. impersonata Walk. (20 g). Variable in colour and in the point of origin of the 2nd subcostal of the 
hindwing. Some detailed notes on the forms have been given in Vol. 4 (p. 53). The originals, from Foo-chow. 
are (as was there stated) in poor condition, but we now figure a specimen from Siccawei, near Shanghai, which 
seems to match them well. Somewhat darker specimens also occur in Fokien; about Shanghai, and probably 
elsewhere, the first generation is darker, the second smaller and lighter. I have seen these pale forms also from 
S. Japan. — macescens Btlr., on an average larger and more brownish, is perhaps the most usual form in Japan 
(whence it was described) and N. E. China and perhaps passes by transitions into accurataria Christ. Rather 
darker still, at least in the distal area, which may form a conspicuous terminal band bisected by the pale sub- 
terminal. Described from Raddefka (Amurland), this form also seems to include some of the specimens known 
from China, even as far as Szechuan (Kwanhsien). 
S. anaitisaria Walk. (20 g). This species and the following differ from emissaria in the structure of the J 
antenna, which has the fascicles of cilia arising from short, but definite pectinations. In the present species the 
pectinations are very little longer than the diameter of the shaft. Apparently very variable and sometimes almost 
impossible to separate from dimoera except by this character; as a rule, the dots which represent the ante-and 
postmedian lines are more strongly marked, the median shade not quite so oblique, intenser and more sharply 
defined, the cell-dot of the hindwing rather larger. “S. Hindostan”, a very large <J with the postmedian dots 
of the forewing almost parallel with termen. perhaps a “lost species”; represented in the Nilgiris and Palnis 
by the smaller form which we figure here. 
S. dimoera Prout (20 f). Pectinations mostly about twice the diameter of the shaft, the fascicles of 
cilia almost equalling them in length. On the whole perhaps a little more warmly coloured and a little more irror- 
ated than anaitisaria . the oblique shade rather broad, its edges not generally very sharply defined. Palnis(tvpe), 
Nilgiris, etc, 
