Publ. 10. XII. 1938. 
SCOPULA. ' By L. B. Prout. 
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S. neoxesta Meyr. Expanse “29 mm '. Face ferruginous above, more whitish below. Vertex ferruginous, neoxeata. 
Antennal ciliation 1/4; hindtarsus % tibia. Very pale whitish-ochreous with the cell-dots minute and the lines 
very faint, the antemedian obsolete, the subterminals suffused, hardly traceable, the terminal line ochreous; 
median and postmedian lines twice sinuate outward. Hindwing with margin rounded. Duaringa, Queensland, 
the type $ apparently still unique. 
S. placida Warr. (22 b) also has the lines very faint, only the median and postmedian visible, parallel placida. 
to each other; but differs in that the cell-spots are large and black. Hindtibia of the $ probably less strongly 
dilated; tarsus not quite /4 tibia. Choiseul, Solomon Islands. 
S. planidisca Bastelb. (22 b). Characterized by the strikingly large cell-spot of the forewing, black in planidisca. 
a yellowish-brown circumscription. Well irrorated, costal edge of forewing yellowish-brown; ante- and post¬ 
median lines dentate, subterminal thicker, marginal shade about 1 mm wide, the extremely fine black terminal 
line strengthened behind the apex by 2 black interneural dots. Perak, 1 g. 
S. oppunctata Warr. (22 b). As free from irroration as placida but with well developed brown-grey oppunctata. 
markings, bluntly angled hindwing and shortened $ hindtarsus. Solomons, the type from Kulambangra. This 
form, which occurs also on Bougainville, Choiseul, Gizo and Vella Lavella, has a very characteristic black sub- 
terminal spot on the 1st radial of the fore wing. pletlistigma Warr. , from New Georgia (type $) and Rendova plenistigma. 
(a series), agrees closely except that the black subapical spot is wanting. 
S. saphes Prout (22 b). Antennal ciliation over twice as long as diameter of shaft, tarsus a little over saphes. 
/4 tibia. Slightly more olive-tinged than amala, the irroration less extremely sparse; markings greyer, cell-dots 
larger, terminal dots strong though small. British New Guinea. 
S. amala Meyr. (= recessata Meyr., Turn., nec Walk.) (22 b). Variable in tone, in any case with ex- amala. 
tremely little irroration; lines moderate, less bent than in oppunctata, cell-dots smaller, etc. Turner distinguishes 
it from perlata by the much less angled hindwing and the shortened <$ hindtarsus (/4 tibia). Antennal ciliation 
of the $ moderate. Widely distributed, Tenimber, Queensland and from the Moluccas to the Solomons; the 
originals from Port Moresby. — ab. lacteisabulosa Pothsch., a £ from the Oetakwa River, at sea level, is rather ladeisabu- 
a clean-looking specimen with the markings somewhat weakened, at least subterminally. loso 
S. heba Prout (22 b). Smaller than amala. Forewing with the lines finer, especially the postmeclian, heba. 
which is also less wavy; median line more oblique than postmedian, whereas in amala the two are parallel. 
Hindwing with termen less noticeably bent than in amala, the lines finer, the postmedian less incurved be¬ 
tween the radials. Bougainville (loc. typ.) to Guadalcanar; also on the Bismarcks, Woodlark and the Louisiades. 
S. actuaria Walk. (22 b). As the type, from Ceylon, was unfortunately a 9, it- is not yet certain whether actuaria. 
the current usage of the name is correct, but there is not at present any reason for upsetting it. The group 
is an excessively difficult one and needs much more study, but the present species can in any case be distinguished 
from the minorata-remotata assemblage by the shorter hindtarsus of the 3 and the anteriorly curved postmedian 
line of the forewing. The latter character has already been used in Vol. 16 (p. 73) to separate lactaria Walk. 
from minorata; but lactaria has not the yellowish or fleshy tone which is usually observable in actuaria and lias 
a less shortened hindtarsus. Widely distributed from India to Formosa, Malaysia, the Philippines, Celebes, 
the Moluccas, etc. - nigranalis Warr. ( = parumnotata Warr.) is characterized by the development of a dark nigranalis. 
spot at the posterior end of the postmedian line and represents actuaria on Java (the type locality of parum¬ 
notata) and the Lesser Sunda Islands as far as Wetter and Timor (the type locality of nigranalis), but as weakly 
marked aberrations lose this mark, while some a. actuaria from Borneo begin to develop it, the races do not 
seem quite sharply defined/ 
S. inactuosa Prout (22 b). Similar to actuaria, the <$ hindleg with the knee-pencil more conspicuous, inactuosa. 
apparently longer, oftener drawn out from the abdominal cavity, the wings more glossy, on an average more 
weakly marked. Fore wing with apex a little more rounded, termen rather less oblique, postmedian line thicker, 
less angled, not black-dotted; hindwing with postmedian thickened. Forewing beneath with dark glossy suf¬ 
fusion. Lesser Sunda Islands, Kei Island, Toekan Besi and perhaps Saleyer; type from Sambawa. 
S. sinopersonata Wehrli (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 4 i). Closely similar to actuaria , but with the hindtarsus sinoperso- 
about 3 / 5 hindtibia. The costal angulation of the median and postmedian lines is even more striking on the 
underside than on the upper. Canton, Omei-shan, etc. 
S. remotata Guen. (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 4 i). Only positively known from the type d 1 , said to come from remotala. 
North India, without exact locality. Antennal shaft, more slender than in minorata , ciliation longer (nearly 1/4), 
palpus slightly longer, hindtarsus shorter; median and postmedian of forewing more widely separated, etc. 
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