SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
nicobarica. 
tenuhnedui. 
sera*. 
anne xatci. 
tosariensis. 
wegneri. 
par as ir a. 
andilinea. 
run n a. 
deject iscrip- 
ta. 
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nicobarica subsp. nov. The specimens from tiie Nicobar Islands are so clean-looking and sharply marked, both 
above and beneath, the hindwing generally with larger cell-dot. that I suspected them of being a separate 
species, but the genitalia seem to agree with examples from the Andamans. Burma, etc., unless a less pointed 
and curved extremity of the penis is significant, but this structure is matched in a Karwar of. apparently, 
the name-typical form. 
S. tenuimedia sp. n. (22 f). Evidently distinct from attentata. notwithstanding the general agreement 
in structure. Expanse 27 -28 mm. Rather more slenderly built; forewing with termen appreciably more 
oblique, postmedian a little more distal, median more slender and sharply defined, strongly oblique, acutely 
angled at 1st radial; hindwing with termen noticeably bent, with median shade continuing slender. Underside 
more recalling the differently shaped sub partita . the forewing being suffused with smoky or brownish from 
costa to fold (or especially to median vein) between base and median shade; cell-dots, terminal dots and post- 
median line well developed. Tone more fleshy than in any but very rare aberrations of attentata. Khasis: Cherra- 
punji (type) and Shillong, a few in the Tring Museum. 
S. seras sp. n. (22 f). Generally larger than attentata (25—27 mm), hindtarsus of the £ a little shorter, 
the 1st joint nearly of the combined length of the other four; antennal fascicles of cilia well developed. Wings 
broad, more creamy in colour than in attentata , generally very weakly irrorated (beneath very clean and weakly 
marked); terminal dots connected by a definite grey line. Dutch Timor: Dili. May 1892, a series in the Tring 
Museum (Doherty). 
S. annexata sp. n. (22 f). Again somewhat larger (28—30 mm). Has perhaps been confounded with 
nesciaria, notwithstanding its larger size and slightly different shape: termen of forewing a little straighter and 
more oblique, of hindwing slightly more bent in the middle; in these respects and in its pallid colour and almost 
complete absence of black scaling (which shows only in the minute cell-dots and almost invisibly small terminal 
dots) beginning to approach the rare atriceps Hmps. (21 d). Further distinguishable from nesciaria and the 
other similar Indian species by the longer hindtarsus (between y 2 and 2 3 tibia), the less dentate and less 
sinuate postmedian line and generally more oblique median; postmedian nearer to termen than in atriceps , 
proximal subterminal shade not so broad and macular; the very fine grey terminal line similar in both. Nil- 
giris, type and others in the Tring Museum. 1 have a believed to come from Gootv (W. H. Campbell) and 
have seen a $ from Malabar. 
S. tosariensis Prout (22 g). Smooth-scaled and not strongly marked, more recalling, in its oblique and 
straightish median shade, such species as kagiata and ambigua , but rather smaller, paler or greyish, often less 
strongly marked and somewhat less brownish than most of them and with much less extremely shortened 
hindtarsus — about % tibia; 2nd joint of tarsus 2 3 of 1st joint or slightly more. Antennal ciliation of the 
little longer than diameter of shaft. E. Java (loc. typ.) and Bali. 
S. wegneri Prout (22 g). Near tosariensis , together with which it was taken in E. Java. Face with 
slightly more extended white or whitish lower part; hindtibial pencil of rj stronger; forewing with a slightly 
browner tinge and generally with stronger irroration. postrnedian line appreciably farther from the termen 
and with a deeper sinus between the radials, median shade much less straight than in tosariensis. terminal dots 
sharper on the underside, well isolated, where in tosariensis they are connected by a line. 
S. parasira Meyr. (22 g). Generally distinguishable from amala by its larger size, more yellowish head, 
serrate J antenna (with “ciliations 2") and rounded hindwing; antemedian line of forewing angled near costa, 
postmedian punctiform on the veins. Hindtarsus of the 3 / s tibia. British New Guinea : Port Moresby and 
district. 
S. undilinea Wan. (22 g) is still little known, but Warren's suggestion that it is “perhaps a form of 
parasira" can scarcely be correct, as (inter alia) the hindtarsus seems to be only about 2 / 5 tibia. It appa¬ 
rently belongs to the nesciaria group, not very broad-winged ; rather fleshy in tone, especially the second 
example, which is here figured. Loyalty Islands. 
S. emma Prout (Suppl.-Vol. 4. pi. 5 d). Somewhat shorter-winged than nesciaria , yet with the apex 
of the forewing rather acute; median shade oblique, almost obsolete anteriorly; hindwing, at least in the <$, 
without noticeable bend at the 3rd radial; hindtarsus of J about 1 3 tibia. W. China. jordani West (22 e). 
from Formosa, is more warmly coloured, perhaps as the most extreme forms of nesciaria. 
S. defectiscripta Prout (22g). Antennal ciliation of the J fully as long as diameter of shaft; hindtarsus 
somewhat less than l / 3 tibia, its 1st joint little longer than the 2nd. Erroneously erected as a (constant) “form'' 
of kagiata , smaller, less strongly irrorated, the lines less grey, generally weaker, the median shade more slender, 
on both wings entirely without black vein-dashes. Formosa. 
