Publ. 1. XII. 1938. 
SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
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S. atriceps Hmps. (21 d). Less large; white-grey or dirty white, without the brown tinge of the preceding atriceps. 
group. Hindtarsus of <$ about y 2 tibia. Similar in shape, as well as in the pose of the transverse markings, 
to erubescens, but much whiter, the cell-dots indistinct, spots at postmedian wanting. N. W. India: Sabathu. 
S. asparta sp. n. (21 d) can scarcely be a race of atriceps , although Hampson and Warren treated it asparla. 
as synonymous. Rather larger, hindtarsus somewhat shorter ( 2 / 5 or scarcely). More tinged with pinkish- 
buff; markings thicker, the median shade of the hindwing straighter, its cell-dot dark, though still minute, a 
few minute black terminal dots present, at least on the forewing. Khasis, 3 in the Tring Museum. An aber¬ 
ration from Cherrapunji (Swinhoe collection) shows weak traces of the characteristic postmedian markings 
of moorei. 
S. linearis Hmps. (=- linearia Hmps.) (21 e) is also of only moderate size and is again distinguishable linearis. 
by the colour; this shows a distinct yellow or ochreous, which is wanting in all the foregoing. Hindtibia of the 
with the pencils long and strong, whitish, tarsus greatly abbreviated. Lines fine, sinuous, but not or scarcely 
at all denticulate, a slight thickening or darkening of the postmedian at both folds reminiscent of the extimaria 
group. Distributed in India, the type from the Nilgiris. 
S. alstoni Prout agrees in essentials, and in the yellow colour, with linearis and may well be a form of alstoni. 
it. Very distinct in appearance, the postmedian line being blackened between the radials and hindward from 
the 2nd median and accompanied distally by dark (black-irrorated) patches, which recall those of stigmata, 
etc., Ceylon. 
S. margaritaria Warr. (21 e) reverts to the colouring of the group of extimaria and has a similar (ir- margarita- 
regularly dentate) postmedian to that species, but shows only very small remnants of the characteristic puncti- rw - 
form spots at the folds. Warren differentiates it from vacuata by the greater slenderness of this line and the 
absence of the black teeth or dashes which emphasize it on the veins; he also points out the somewhat for¬ 
ward origin of the 2nd radial. Only known from Celebes. 
S. tenuispersata A. Fuchs (21 e). “Size and shape of marginepunctata” (Vol. 4, pi. 4 h). “Differs in icnuispcr- 
the very fine and sparse irroration, the obsolescent markings, but before all in its earthy, dirty yellow-grey saia - 
tone, which almost recalls beckeraria” (Vol. 4, pi. 7 b), “though that is still yellower. Median shade indicated, 
the postmedian by some punctiform atoms, likewise distinct rudiments of the characteristic sinuous subterminal 
shades of marginepunctata” , etc. Underside with the markings of the distal part somewhat more developed 
than above, the median shade (in which stands the cell-dot) discernible, the coloration decidedly yellowish, 
quite different from that of our marginepunctata. Gross-Atjeh, E. Sumatra, a $ in fairly good condition. The 
species which I have provisionally determined as this belongs to Sumatra and Kedah and is here figured; generally 
rather smaller than margaritaria , grey shades more developed, cell-dot of forewing black. 
S. leucopis Prout. Expanse 30—31 mm. Hindtibia of J elongate, tarsus considerably less than V>. leucopis. 
Somewhat less broad-winged than vacuata, the hindwing with termen not appreciably bent. Whitish brown, 
with the lines .brown, not very strong, formed much as in the 3 following. Characterized at once by having 
the face predominantly white, only darkened round the edges. Sarawak: Mt. Murud, at 6000—6500 feet. 
S. pallidiceps Warr. (21 e) was unfortunately described from a specimen to which had been affixed a pallidiceps. 
false head, apparently not even belonging to the present genus. It is therefore a mere coincidence that it has 
a near neighbour-with a white face; here it is normal, i. e. blackish. Antennal ciliation longish (Javan <$<$), 
hindleg almost as in vacuata, tibial pencil with ochreous admixture, a lateral tuft on 5th abdominal tinged with 
ochre. Perhaps further distinguishable from vacuata in that the postmedian is dotted before and behind the 
2nd radial (as in margaritaria but more strongly). Abdomen with strong dorsal spots, at least on segments 
3 and 4, while in margaritaria, hyphenophora and vacuata, they are very small or obsolete. The type J from 
Lombok; specimens from Java seem to agree perfectly. 
S. hyphenophora Warr. (21 e). Closely related to the subdecorata form of vacuata, but with no dark hypheno- 
pencil on the hindtibia; on an average larger and perhaps more weakly marked beneath; the black post- phora 
median spot single, placed on the 2nd radial, often hyphen-shaped. Khasis (loc. typ.) and the Malay Peninsula. 
- ambiguiceps subsp. nov. Expanse 28—30 mm. The face (which in the type form, as also in margaritaria, ambiguiceps 
is deep black with only the lower edge white) less dark and progressively mixed with white from about the middle 
downward; markings rather strong, especially the median shade, above and beneath. Bali, 2500—5000 feet 
( J. P. A. Kalis). 
S. vacuata Guen. (= vagata Walk.) (21 e). Easy to recognize among the Bornean species by the annular vacuata. 
brownish cell-mark of the forewing, the black vein-dots or dashes on the postmedian line and especially, in 
the <$, by the hindleg; this has the femur hairy, the long tibia, besides its terminal tuft, with a long, predomin- 
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