coenona. 
liotis. 
axiotis. 
synethes. 
subcandida. 
subcarnea. 
clarivialis. 
ocheracea. 
nesciaria. 
21H SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
elongate, dull reddish brown, irregularly marked with black, which forms no definite pattern. The foodplant 
is not indicated. 
S. coenona Turn., founded on 1 from Townsville, is differentiated from amala (= recessata Turn.) 
by the rounded hinclwing (not bent in the middle) and slightly longer hindtarsus ( 3 / 5 as against ca. 1 / 2 ). 
Ochreous-whitish with a very few scattered black scales, minute cell-dot (forewing) and terminal dots; lines 
pale grey, the antemedian and median faint, the others more distinct. Expanse 20 mm. A $ from Dawson 
district, determined by Meyrick as amala fits the description fairly well, but its lines are more ochreous and 
the cell-dot is present on both wings. 
S. liotis Meyr. ( = compensata Walk., nom. praeocc.) (22 e). One of the largest of the Australian Scopula 
(see also the following). Antenna of $ with rather long ciliation, hindtarsus about % tibia. Smooth-scaled, 
weakly marked, with scarcely any black irroration, postmedian marked with very small vein-dots. Tasmania 
(loc. tvp.) 2000—3000 feet; also Mount Kosciusko and Mount St. Bernard, at higher altitudes. 
S. axiotis Meyr. (22 e). which has been misidentified by Turner, has almost the same structure as 
liotis and is similarly weak-marked. Less large, more ochreous-tinged; collar concolorous (in liotis darker brown); 
fringes less clear, showing indications of proximal dark dots at the vein-ends. Geraldton and York. West Australia 
S. synethes Turn, <$, 30 mm. Antenna in serrate, filiations 2Vi. Forewing costa gently arched, apex 
tolerably pointed, termen slightly bowed, slightly oblique; pale grey; lines very faintly marked; antemedian 
obsolete or nearly so; a very slender, finely dentate, sinuous line from % costa to 3 / 5 hindmargin, a similar line 
from % costa, forming minute dots an veins; a very faint, whitish, dentate subterminal line; a terminal series 
of interneural dots. Hindwing with termen rounded; as forewing, but some grey irroration towards base, lines 
even less distinct. Very like liotis, but greyer, without any fuscous irroration, posterior tarsi of $ rather shorter 
relatively to tibiae (%). Cell-dots present. Waroona, West Australia, 1 <$. 
S. subcandida sp. n. Face fuscous; vertex white; collar ochre-brownish. Antennal ciliation of the 
<§ about as long as diameter of shaft; hindtarsus less than V, tibia. Forewing with costa a little straighter 
and termen perhaps slightly less oblique than in the neighbouring species, hindwing with termen rounded: 
white with coarse, irregularly disposed dark irroration; cell-dots and terminal dots small; lines brownish, dentate, 
the median and the proximal subterminal rather thick, not sharply defined proximally; the white subterminal 
conspicuous, almost free from irroration; fringe well irrorated. Forewing beneath a little more suffused proxi¬ 
mally, cell-dot and the 3 outer lines developed: hindwing paler, with only the cell-dot and postmedian at all 
well developed. W. Australia: Sherlock River, type A; Roebourne, a pair; all in the Tring-Museum. Warren's 
manuscript labelled this neat little species candidaria, but he has used that name for an African Pylarge , now 
merged in Scopula. 
S. subcarnea Warr. (22 e). Hindtibia of the moderate, tarsus well over T 2 (rather longer than in nes¬ 
ciaria). Rather more suggestive of undulataria, of which indeed Warren made it an aberration (!). Some¬ 
what pointed winged for the group, lines moderately firm, nearly parallel with the termen (their incurvature 
rather slight). The straight termen and (except costally) median shade and the heavily suffused proximal part 
of the forewing beneath distinguish it from nesciaria. Khasis, the type from Shillong. 
S. clarivialis Prout (22 e). Structure nearly as in nesciaria. Larger, the hindtibia without a definite 
distal process, the tarsus perhaps relatively a trifle longer; median shade of forewing more sharply angled and 
more oblique, the space between this and the postmedian rather conspicuously pale; hindwing with the termen 
somewhat less bent than in nesciaria , but scarcely so round as in subpartita, which it recalls in markings, especially 
on the underside, but which has a shorter <$ hindtarsus. Korintji, W. Sumatra. 
S. ocheracea Hmps., founded on a $ from the Nilgiris and afterwards suppressed to nesciaria (as a form 
with “a flesh-coloured tint”), may well be a mere colour-form thereof, differing chiefly in its warmer tone, but 
awaits closer study. Rather large and broad-winged, strongly marked, in the type with the postmedian looking 
more dentate and sinuous than usual, the terminal dots above and beneath extremely minute, almost wanting; 
but a Cawnpore $. in most respects agreeing, has these dots normal, while Dharmsala $9 with the some colour 
are still more similar to normal nesciaria. I noted a Pusa <$, determined for the Agricultural Research Institute, 
as having the colour slightly deeper still, the median shade rather thicker and greyer, the postmedian (at least 
of the hindwing) markedly sinuous, the structure apparently as in nesciaria. 
S. nesciaria Walk. (- negataria Walk., remotata auct., nec Guen.) (22 e), The first two names cited 
here refer respectively to 9 and both described from Ceylon. As the exceedingly similar attentata Walk. 
occurs also on Ceylon and I rely chiefly on A characters for the differentiation, the ultimate location of the 
name nesciaria is not yet absolutely assured. Antenna of $ with the joints somewhat projecting, the ciliation 
