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SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
rufistigma. 
mishmica. 
formosana 
aratreces. 
punctatissi- 
ma. 
erubescens. 
preumenes. 
of forewing a more definite, open ring than in any of the preceding, that- of hindwing slightly variable, but 
mainly trapezoidal, narrowly dark, filled in with ochreous; postmedian line with small black vein-dots, the 
markings at radial and submedian area not ample; terminal dots small, but strong; fringes dotted. E. Java: 
Nongkodjadjar, 4000 feet, type <$ and another; Djoenggo, Arjoeno, 4500 feet, 1 $ (J. P. A. Kalis). All in the 
Tring Museum, none very fresh, but obviously a distinct species. 
S. rufistigma Warr. (21 c), earlier treated as a form of moorei, may be regarded as the type of Stringer’s 
third group. Recognizable at once by the annular cell-spot of the hindwing — narrowly brown, with orange 
or bright ochreous interior; ground-colour generally pale. Hindtarsus of <$ little over 1 4 tibia. Khasis (type), 
Sikkim and probably Tonkin and Perak. Single poor specimens from Vrianatong (Chinese Tibet) and Kinabalu 
may represent races. 
S. mishmica sp. n. (21 c). Rather larger than ruf istigma, antenna and hindleg of similar. Colour almost 
as in some rufistigma, less whitish than the type form and a trifle greyer (less brownish) than the darker forms; 
forewing with cell-ring smaller and more ill-defined or virtually obsolete, median line beneath with an acute 
angle at 1 st radial, while in rufistigma this is less acute, often markedly so, or the extreme tip of the angle in¬ 
definite; hindwing in both the known specimens with the cell-spot small (in rufistigma variable). Underside 
with terminal line of forewing very slender, the interneural spots standing out as conspicuous triangular pro¬ 
jections, for the most part fairly high (in rufistigma this line is relatively broader and the dots inclined, under 
the lens, to appear as mere undulations). The left-hand ceras of the 8 th sternite in fairly long (reaching about 
to the end of the mappa), while in rufistigma it is very short; the saccus also differs. Mishmi Hills, N. Burma 
(Miss M. Steele), 2 J'd' in the British Museum. 
S. formosana Prout (= orientalis Prout, nec Alph.) (21 d). Very near rufistigma and rufigrisea, but 
distinct. Hindtarsus of the $ almost y 2 tibia, antennal ciliation long. Intermediate in colour, generally rather 
nearer to that of the latter. Abdomen with black dorsal spots. Cell-dot of hindwing red-brown, with black 
admixture (sometimes only a few scattered black scales). Formosa. 
S. anatreces Prout (21 d). Antenna with about 12 of the proximal joints black-dotted. Hindtarsus 
of the (J slightly longer than in formosana (almost % tibia), fore wing a trifle narrower, hindwing slightly more 
angled, cell-dots black, postmedian more deeply bent between the radials, median shade on forewing more 
dentate, on hindwing straighter, underside more strongly marked. Formosa. In structure near the following 
species, but the hindtarsus perhaps scarcely so long. 
S. punctatissima Bastelb. (= quadrimacula Wileman ) (21 d). Recognizable at once by the large dark 
cell-spot- of the hindwing, the post-median spot at the radials of the forewing also strong. Darker than anatreces, 
antemedia-n line more obsolete, postmedian of hindwing less distally placed. Formosa. The only similar form 
known is that described above (p. 201 ) as indigenata ab. tetrasticta, which is much smaller, without black 
cell-dot of forewing and of a different- colour (more brown-grey). 
S. erubescens Warr. (21 d) may be known by its delicate fleshy tinge (pinkish buff to light pinkish 
cinnamon), which is much cleaner (less irrorated with grey) than in sordida. In the strong postmedian patches 
and the sparseness of its irroration, it- more recalls stigmata; larger, the tibial hair-pencil pale, the t-ermen of 
the forewing a little more oblique, lines rather thicker, terminal dots minute, on the underside scarcely showing, 
on an almost continuous terminal line. Hindtarsus of <$ well under ]/ 2 tibia. Only known from the Khasis, not 
common. 
S. preumenes sp. n. Antennae lost-. Hindtibia rather strongly dilated. Both wings with termen just 
appreciably more rounded than in asparta, reducing the acuteness of the angles at apex of forewing and 3rd 
radial of hindwing. Tone a shade more pinkish than in asparta, irroration weak or moderate; terminal dots 
fairly well developed anteriorly and traceable throughout (on underside both species show a brownish terminal 
line, though it is weaker in asparta)-, cell-dot- of hindwing sharply black, though small, of forewing also small, 
less black but quite manifest; lines weak, the median shade on the forewing less thick than in asparta, on the 
hindwing likewise somewhat so, well bent just behind the median, so that its principal part curves inward round 
the cell-dot, though there are traces also of a line curving on the opposite side of the dot; postmedian of 
forewing with the usual two blackenings, the red-brown spot distally to each small but quite noticeable. Under¬ 
side with the forewing rather more heavily and less irregularly suffused than in asparta and with a narrow liind- 
ma-rgina -1 area remaining whitish; cell-dots here better developed, median shade and post-median line much the 
same in both species. Vrianatong, Tibet, 1 hi my collection. Greyer than erubescens , forewing a trifle shorter, 
cell-dots rather stronger, postmedian of hindwing straighter, postmedian of underside more proximally placed. 
The genitalia are quite distinct from any yet examined in the extimaria group. 
