SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
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S. isodesma Lower. Unknown to me and to Turner, founded on 2 9$ from Broken Hill. New South wodrxmo. 
Wales. Forewing elongate triangular, whitish ochreous, lines fuscous, gently waved throughout, antemedian 
at Vi, median beyond middle, 3rd and 4th close together soon ofter. 5th near termen. cell-dot very small: hind- 
wing rounded, wanting the 1st line. 
S. homodoxa Me.yr. (= remotota Rbl., err. transcr. et det.) (22 c). Two or three very similar Scapula homodoxa. 
seem to have been originally confused under this name, but as Meyrick gives the $ hindtarsus as 1/ 3 tibia the 
name must be restricted to the Pacific species, with Tonga as type locality. Not unlike a diminutive aspilataria 
but with black cell-dots. Known from the Loyalty, Fiji, Samoan and Friendly Islands. 
S. coundularia Warr. (22 d). Hindtibia of strongly dilated, tarsus greatly shortened (about 1 ,). A coundularia. 
very small, rather round-winged species, the black cell-dots minute, the wavy lines parallel, very equal in ex¬ 
pression, the base of the forewing sometimes with an illusory suggestion of two further lines, so that Warren 
writes “seven lines" (!). Sumba. 
S. thysanopus Turn. (22 d), from N. Queensland, lias the same leg-structure as coundularia and may thysanopns. 
w-ell be a representative or local race of it. Variable in size, at times larger, apparently always relatively some¬ 
what longer-winged; lines, excepting the subterminals, perhaps a little straighten notably the antemedian. 
North Queensland to Port Darwin, apparently not infrequent. 
S. pseudodoxa Prout (22 d) belongs to the same group as the two preceding. Build rather more robust pseudodoxa. 
than in coundularia. apex of forewing slightly less rounded, scaling less glossy, groundcolour sometimes paler, 
markings less uniform, median line often weaker, the space between this and the postmedian often extended, 
postmedian in general somewhat more sinuous, proximal subterminal shade showing more tendency to break 
up into spots. Forewing beneath more or less markedly infuscated. Woodlark Island (type), the Louisiades 
and Bismarck Archipelago. Probably also Meyrick's “ homodoxa " from New Guinea belonged here: see above. 
S. inficita Walk. (22 d). This is certainly not. as has sometimes been supposed, the same species as inficita. 
coundularia, though probably related. Hindtibia of $ much swollen, with dense pencil, tarsus minute; antennal 
ciliation rather longer than diameter of shaft. On an average less fleshy tinted than coundularia, but more so 
than actuaria , postmedian line straighter than in the latter. Bali to Tenimber. the type from Flores. philippina philippina. 
Prout is brighter brownish or more fleshy, with more sharply expressed lines. Luzon. Almost the same form 
occurs on Cagayan Suln and in North Borneo and may be expected from other islands of the Philippines. 
S. despoliata Walk. (22 d), founded on a $ from Moreton Bay, Queensland, which has not in my ex- despoliata. 
perience been precisely matched, is apparently correctly identified by Turner, in which case it is the same 
species which Warren subsequently named crurata. It evidently approaches inficita very closely, though 
whiter and with somewhat firmer lines, etc.: Turner describes the £ hindleg as having the “hindfemur short, 
tibia 2^4 times femur, swollen, tarsus 1 / 10 tibia" (the latter probably an under-estimate); he distinguishes it 
further from its Australian allies by its straightish, cloudy lines, the postmedian lines not denticulate. The 
type is larger than most specimens of the following form and has the postmedian line more bent, but this diffe¬ 
rence is partly sexual. crurata Warr. (22 d), founded on a from Stephansort, N. E. New Guinea, known crurata. 
also from New Hanover and Queensland, has the lines (or at least the postmedian) of the forewing more oblique 
than in despoliata type, the cell-dots sometimes obsolete, terminal dots punctiform (in despoliata sometimes 
slightly elongate). 
S. tumiditibia Prout ( - optivata Hmps.. nec Walk.) (22 d). Ciliation of 4 antenna about 2; hindtibia tumiditibia. 
enormously developed, about as long as abdomen, dilated and wdth long ochreous-tinged pencil, the tarsus 
extremely short. Forewing rather narrow, hindwing relatively large, at least in the <$. Christmas Island, in 
the Indian Ocean. 
S. optivata Walk. (22 d). an abundant Australian Scopula, is very variable in size and colour and it optivata. 
will possibly be discovered that two or more species of closely similar structure are at present mixed, but there 
is as yet no evidence of this; in any case, excepting the very short $ hindtarsus (about x / 5 tibia), it has nothing- 
in common with tumiditibia. the shape and markings being always more typical of the genns. The type form 
is pale ochreous, sometimes more fleshv-tinged, sometimes more whitish. ab. amathodes Turn, is browner amathodes. 
and with the markings obsolete. Founded on 2 <§<$ from Lancefield Junction, Victoria. ab. polia Turn, has polia. 
the body and wings grey. Birchip. Victoria, a <$. Distributed from Port Darwin and Cape York to Tasmania. 
S. prosoeca Turn. (22 d). Colder white-grey than optivata , on an average larger, cell-dots on the whole prosoeca. 
stronger; easily distinguished by the less shortened hindtarsus of the $ (about 2 / 5 tibia). North Queensland, 
the original series bred by F. P. Dodd from Townsville; a preserved larva in the Tring Museum is extremely 
