SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
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S. emissaria Walk. ( = defamataria Walk.) (20 g). Generally smaller, at times much smaller. Antennal emissaria. 
structure normal. Forewing less acute, hindwing narrower; oblique shade less dark. Moulmein (type of emissaria), 
Ceylon (type of defamataria) and apparently almost throughout India, besides Siam, Formosa, the Philippines. 
Celebes, Sumatra and from Java to Sumbawa, to which list numerous additions will probably be made. 
ab. mollis Warr., a A from the Ivhasis, is an unimportant fleshy-ochreous, weakly marked aberration. lactea molli *. 
Btlr. (Vol. 4, pi. 3 g), from Japan and E. and Central China, is on an average somewhat larger and the wings ,actea - 
as a rule relatively broader, but some individuals would be difficult or impossible to separate from some of the 
name-typical race. Of proxima Btlr. (20 g), from Queensland and New South Wales, I have seen only the proximo,. 
type c$\ Rockhampton; this is paler and slightly greyer, possibly also slightly less narrow-winged than the other 
forms. — The larva of e. lactea was bred from the egg at Shanghai by Dr. Millais Gulpin' (see Vol. 4, p. 54). 
S. orthoscia Meyr. (20 g) is apparently near emissaria but with rounded hindwing. "16—19 mm.' 5 ortho new. 
Antennal ciliation long (2% times width of shaft); forewing with cell-dot minute, lines straight, the median 
not notably oblique. West Australia: Geraldton and Perth. 
S. loxosema Turn. “17 -20 mm." Antennal ciliation less long (1)4). Median shade of forewing prob- loxosema. 
ably stronger (“broadly suffused with fuscous -5 ), its position more distal (% costa to % hindmargin), antemedian 
faint or obsolete, postmedian slender, finely crenulate. Hindwing with termen strongly bowed. Victoria: Lance- 
field Junction and Melbourne. 
S. oxystoma Prout (20 g). An apparently isolated species, referable here by the leg structure of the A- oxystoma. 
Antennal shaft in the A stout, the ciliation long and fine. Wings somewhat more elongate than in any other 
known Scopula wfith at all similar colour and markings. Marquesas: Hivaoa. 
S. erebospila Lower. “A, 20 mm." Said to be a peculiar-looking insect, not unlike some Noctuidae. erebospila. 
Forewing elongate-triangular, costa straight almost to apex, termen somewhat prominent in the middle; pale 
ochreous, with 3 faintly paler lines beyond the middle; cell-dot, dots on costa, on costal portions of 1st and 3rd 
lines and on termen blackish. Hindwing with termen slightly rounded; the costal dots obsolete, the terminal 
lines replaced by a row of dark fuscous dots. Cooktown, N. Queensland. 
S. episcia Meyr. (20 g). “18 — 19 mm." Turner differentiates it from the other Australian species of episcia. 
Pylarge by the dark-grey (not whitish) thorax. Forewing with costa straight; white, suffusedly irrorated with 
fuscous; costa and a basal patch bounded by a line from before middle of costa to near base of inner margin 
fuscous sprinkled with black; median shade outside the cell-dot, strong, rather irregular, cloudy, fuscous, mixed 
with black; the other markings less striking. Hindwing with termen rounded, much bent (though obtusely) 
about veins 3 and 4, sinuate near tornus, inner margin short; veins 6 and 7 connate; a cloudy dark median line: 
outer markings much as on forewing. Founded on 2 Ad' from Carnarvon. West Australia; Turner adds Broken 
Hill, N. S. W. 
S. megalocentra Meyr. (20 f). Larger, much more regular in shape and pattern. Hindleg long. Fore- megdlocenira. 
wing with lines slender, the antemedian only indicated towards inner margin, here mixed with black, median 
very faint, outside the conspicuous black cell-dot, postmedian faint, wavy, slightly sinuate at both folds, some¬ 
what dotted on the veins and with a more distinct dot at the 1st radial. Hindwing rounded; postmedian more 
irrorated with black throughout than on forewing, median faint, cloudy, proximal to the cell-dot, which is 
large and black. Adelaide, South Australia, 1 A- 
B. Section: hindtibia o f A without spurs (Scopula). 
S. bifalsaria Prout ( — falsaria Leech , nec H.-Sch.) (Vol. 4, pi. 3 1, 5 e). A with antennal ciliation rather bifalsaria. 
long, hindtibia dilated, tarsus not greatly shortened. Whitish grey, well irrorated, the lines somewhat diffuse 
or band-like, the suffusion outside the postmedian reaching the rather conspicuous whitish subterminal. Hind- 
wing with termen slightly bent in the middle. W. China. falsificata Prout (= grisescens Proud , nec Stgr.) falsificata. 
(Suppl.-Vol. 4. pi. 5 a) is a duskier, greyer form from Vrianatong. Tibet, with the markings not so diffused into 
bands. 
S. oxysticha sp. n. (20 h). Antenna with the ciliation moderately long. Tibial pencil strong and dense, oxysticlia. 
tarsus little shorter than tibia. Wings so uniformly suffused with delicate light olive-grey that only 2 or 3 almost 
straight bands and a deep] y dentate subterminal remain conspicuously white; cell-dots and terminal dots 
obsolescent. Forewing beneath more brownish, with similar white bands, hindwing whiter. “Yunnan 55 , probably 
Teng-yueh-ting district (Forrest), type A in the British Museum, kindly presented by Mr. M. J. Mansfield. 
Suggests a link between bifalsaria and (by the underside) gulmargensis Prout (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 5 a). 
S. coniaria Prout ( = pulveraria Leech, nec Snell.) (Vol. 4, pi. 3 m. as pulveraria). I have pointed out coniaria. 
in Suppl.-Vol. 4, p. 43 that this South Japanese species was subsequently, but doubtfully, recorded from 
