SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
S. flaccata Stgr. (Vol. 4, p. 76, pi. 4 1). This certainly belongs to the section Pylarge; I know of no flaccata. 
C without hindtibial spurs, as I quoted from Staudinger (Vol. 4, p. 76), in my experience it oftener has 2 
than 1 . Probably a race of decolor (see above). — languidata Prout ( = flaccata Chretien) (4 g). Compared with languidata. 
the type of decolor, I noted that the palpus was perhaps a triple less short, the tongue perhaps a little less long, 
the projection of the antennal joints and the fasciculation of the cilia always well manifest, these latter fully 
li/ 2 times the diameter of the shaft. Wings perhaps a trifle less elongate, the bend in the margin of the hind¬ 
wing generally very slight; the cell-dots, though minute, are always present, at least on the hind wing. —'The 
larva, according to Chretien, is found only on Atriplex halimus, on which he has also reared it ab ovo, eggs 
laid on 13 April producing a second generation of the imago on 20 June. Larva slender and elongate (when 
newly hatched thread-like), the adult larva very little attenuated in front, thickened behind; clayey whitish, 
unmarked except for a brownish dorsal line and even this at times obsolete; spiracles small but very distinct, 
red. Feeds chiefly at night. Pupa yellowish brown, short compared with the larva, spiracles rather large, 
black; tip very dark reddish brown, cremaster with some hooked setae and 2 rather long central spinules, 
diverging at their tips. Now known from Morocco to Cyrenaica. 
S. elwesi Prout (4 h). Hindtibia with both the terminal spurs well developed. Very distinct from all elwesi. 
the hitherto known Scopula of the section Pylarge, probably derived from Holarctias, but agreeing with Scopula 
as at present characterized, although the hair-scales of the palpus are rather long-projecting. The blackish 
irroration is sparse, except at the base of the forewing. The underside is similarly marked to the upper, but 
less strongly. Bashkars River, north of Lake Taletskoi, Altai, only the type $ known to me; it was taken on 
26 July 1898. I now suspect that it may be near cajanderi Herz (6 f), of which the hindleg is not mentioned, 
but less broad-winged, probably less glossy, the median shade not stronger than the others, the terminal line 
weak (in cajanderi strong), the head mixed with reddish. - — sajanensis subsp. nov. (4 h). Until material is avail- sajanensis. 
able for anatomical investigation, I regard this as a dark form of elwesi, with which it seems entirely to agree 
in external structure as well as in the red-mixed head, likeness of under- to upperside, etc. The markings of 
the forewing are nearly the same (assuming probable individual variation in both races), but the type of sa¬ 
janensis has indications of dark terminal shading and a stronger terminal line and is probably nearer to ca¬ 
janderi as described. The hindwing shows more difference in the position of the postmedian and the broadening 
of the terminal shading. Munko Sardyk, Sajan Mountains, a single $ in the British Museum. —- achlyoides achlyoides. 
subsp. nov. is still darker, the lines fuscous instead of ochreous-brownish. The head shows little of the red 
admixture, though a few reddish scales are discoverable with the lens. Forewing with basal part suffused, 
only 2 lines well developed, at about equal distances from the cell-dot, the outer of them stronger than in either 
of the preceding and more sinuous, somewhat recalling Herz’s figure of anaitaria ( cajanderi 9 ), distal area 
nearly as in sajanensis. Hindwing marked nearly as in elwesi, more dark-suffused proximally. East Tannuola: 
Schawyr at 2500 m, in June. One $ in the British Museum and one in my collection, possibly a mere aberration 
of sajanensis. 
. cajanderi. 
S. cajanderi Herz (9 = anaitaria Herz) (6 f). Although the structure of this species has not yet been 
studied, the evidently near relationship to the group just discussed warrants the assumption that it should 
be placed here. Dr. Wehrlt has recently obtained a $ and informs me that he has kindly lent it to Dr. Seitz 
for figuring. He regards the synonymy, first suggested by Pungeler as safe. 
B. Section Scopula. Hindtibia of the <$ without terminal spurs. 
S. immorata L. According to Rebel, a single spur is occasionally present on the hindtibia of the <$, immorata. 
another indication that the tibial armature in this sex, though it should always be carefully considered, is not 
of primary classificatory importance in the genus Scopula. — gen. aest. pallidior Skala is smaller, paler, generally pallidior. 
more indistinctly marked. —- ab. fuscomarginata Hbfer. Subterminal line entirely wanting, leaving the distal fuscomar- 
area uniformly fuscous. The type was taken at Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria. —- ab. unicoloraria C. Schneider. . ginata- 
Forewing unicolorous brownish, hindwing the same, with black cell-dot. Underside indistinctly marked. Cann- vntc " ora r - m 
stadt, Wiirttemberg, a captured on 14 June. — - Schneider finds the larva of this species at large occasionally 
on Thymus and Origanum and breeds it easily on Salvia. 
S. tessellaria Bclv. Praviel has recently recorded from France (Isle-Jourdain, Gers) a specimen which tessellaria. 
he determines as tabianaria, on account of the agreement with examples so determined by Turati himself. 
S. rubiginata Hufn. I am not altogether convinced of the value of the multiplication of names for the rubiginata. 
various forms of this very inconstant species, but as it is not certain which of them (besides ochraceata) have 
any geographical importance, I give the descriptions and localities in some detail; in any case it will be a biblio¬ 
graphical convenience to have them brought together. — ab. obscurata Skala. Forewing above dusted with obscurata. 
grey, so as to render indistinct the dark markings; hindwing also somewhat dusted in terminal area. Founded 
on a specimen from Nikolsburg, Moravia. — ab. scotima Bubacek is also darkened, both wings uniformly copper- scotina. 
