SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
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cely any Mediterranean locality from which it is not recorded. —- ah. cheimeritiaria described as a Cyprus cheimcri- 
form of turbulentaria (? seasonal), is rather small (length of a forewing 8 or 9 mm), the ochre-yellow ground- nuna. 
colour weakly irrorated with grey; the other characters given as distinctive belong normally to ochroleucaria 
and Sterneck has learned from an examination of the genitalia that it really belongs to this species. Collected 
in January; one or two November specimens before one from the same locality (Limassol) nearly conform, 
but others are normally coloured. — ab. loc. tripolitana Sterneclc is also small, apex of forewing somewhat more tripolitana 
rounded, the bone-yellow ground-colour not tinged with reddish, the dark irroration very sparse, antemedian 
line almost obsolete; collar not darker than vertex. In a series of 18 from Tripoli in the Tring Museum, about 
one-third belong to this form, the rest are more normally coloured. —- ab. loc. colonaria H.-Sch. (4 h). JJr. colonaria 
Wehrli has little doubt that a number of specimens which he has received from Sicily, one of which is here 
figured, represents the true colonaria, which may probably have to supplant tripolitana. In Herrich-Schaef- 
fer's original, there was a “reddish” tone observable but the agreement is otherwise satisfactory except that 
the type figure omits the antemedian line. It has no connection with paleacata (6 i), such as was assumed by 
Oberthur. — ah. accessaria H.-Sch. (4 h), which I treated in Vol. 4, p. 81 as an unknown species (notwith- accessaria. 
standing that Statjdinger had already provisionally referred it to ochroleucaria) is, as I now believe, almost 
certainly a very warmly coloured and strongly marked aberration; with the antemedian line of the forewing 
very distally placed, confluent with the median shade. I have before me a large $ from Biskra which is very 
similarly marked (including the thick median shade of the hindwing), a small $ from Sicily in which, though 
the ground-colour is pale, the other tendencies are observable and a $ (Catania) with the strikingly macular 
proximal-subterminal. I suspect that the type came from Sicily. — ab. loc. serrans nov. (4 h) agrees with serrans. 
tripolitana and colonaria in lacking the reddish tinge, but is rather large, densely irrorated, lines and median 
shade strong above and beneath, postmedian well dentate, subterminal shades better expressed than in the 
type. Ghor el Safieh, S. of the Dead Sea (M. Aigner), 2 99 in the Tring Museum, the type with the median 
shade broader, and on the hindwing less zigzag, than in the figured paratype; Jericho, 2 $$ in my collection 
(Dr. J. Sterneck leg.), not quite so heavily marked. Andres also notes a similar form, bred in Egypt, as 
“dark (not reddish) brown, outer line strong and sharply dentate, underside strongly darkened". — According 
to Titrati, the egg of ochroleucaria is green, becoming vinous-spotted the day before hatching, which takes 
place on the 6th day. Larva slender, greenish grey, slightly carina ted laterally; clypeus white, mandibles brown; 
an extremely slender double, dark dorsal line, accompanied laterally by small oblique black marks; stig- 
matalline green, spiracles black; venter regularly furrowed with pearl-grey, the ventral line composed of alter¬ 
nations of double marks with single grey dots. 
S. remotata Guen. (4 i). The type <$ of this much-misunderstood species, of which we here reproduce rcmotata. 
the figure, is still unmatched in the collection^known to me. The indefinite locality (“North India") leaves 
it very doubtful whether it has a Palaearctic origin, though some very similar Scopula have been received from 
the Punjab. I am indebted to Dr. Wehrli for a very careful differentiation from ochroleucaria. Antennal 
shaft more slender, ciliation distinctly longer (nearly one-half as long again); palpus projecting slightly further 
beyond the face; hindtarsus definitely shorter, hindtibia perhaps, as Guexee suggests, less strongly dilated. 
The specimen, though in good condition, lias unfortunately a wrong abdomen ( 9 ) attached. Besides the “re¬ 
moteness” of the median and postmedian lines, remotata differs from ochroleucaria in the more zigzag median 
line, blacker vein-dots on the postmedian and inclination of the terminal dots to form a line; also in that the 
first line of the hindwing is more proximal and more vertical, meeting the antemedian instead of the median 
of the forewing. 
S. personata Prout (Vol. 4, pi. 7 a), founded on 9 d'cJ (not 9$, as misprinted in the German edition) per sonata. 
from Japan and Corea, seems to be distributed in China and Formosa and it is by no means certain that it 
differs specifically from the hypochra Meyr. of Australia; at any rate species with this essential structure and 
facies are widely distributed in the Indo-Australian Region. 
S. sinopersonata Wehrli (4 i) is easily distinguishable from the three preceding by the subcostal angu- sinoperso- 
lation of the median line and corresponding outward bend of the postmedian of the forewing. Antennal cilia¬ 
tion of the (9 somewhat shorter than in ochroleucaria , only about equal to the diameter of the shaft; hind tarsus 
about as in remotata (tarsus to tibia as 35: 58). Cell-dots small, sharply black. Underside coloured about as 
in ochroleucaria , the subcostal angulation of the lines even more striking than above. Canton, Omei-shan, etc. 
Similar to actuaria Walk. (India, Malaysia, etc.), but with the hindtarsus a little less short. 
S. adelpharia Puny. In addition to the structural distinctions from ochroleucaria given in Vol. 4, differ- adelpharia. 
ences have heen found in the $ genitalia, particularly in the aedoeagus and the cerata; the latter are parti¬ 
cularly easy to observe by removing some hair from the underside, as the horns are excessively asymmetrical 
in ochroleucaria and the very long one can sarcely escape notice; in adelpharia they are moderate, more sym¬ 
metrical. — pharaonis Sterneck has been proposed to denote the Egyptian race, which is distinguished by the pharaonis. 
stronger development of the interneural black dots of the termen and (in sufficiently fresh specimens) by the 
