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SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
jrancki. S. francki sp. n. (5 e). At first sight very much like a slightly less broad-winged propinquaria, with the 
dark markings of the outer area much weaker. Hindtarsus of <$ rather shorter, scarcely over y 2 tibia. Both wings 
with a rather large black cell-dot; median shade somewhat greyer, on the forewing outcurved well beyond the 
cell-dot; postmedian of hindwing more proximally placed than on forewing, a broader white space separating it 
from the first subterminal shade, no black costal spot on forewing; forewing beneath less strongly suffused than 
in propinquaria. Kwanhsien, Szechuan, frequent in July (G. M. Franck), type in coll. Prout. Scarcely a whiter 
form of limbata Wileman (Formosa); cell-dots larger, anterior projection of the postmedian line more acute, sub¬ 
terminal line broader. 
insolata. S. insolata Btlr.(= butleri Prout). My re-naming was unnecessary, as insolata Btlr. was only a “secondary 
homonym" and insolata Feld, now stands in Ptychamalia. The present species reaches Assam, Tonkin and even 
Sumatra, and I can no longer regard satsumaria Leech (S. Japan) as more than a race of it. 
concinna- S. concinnaria Dup. The type figure of this species is not very satisfactory, the veins being printed so 
ria - heavily (and blackish) as to give it a very dull appearance. According to the description, however, it is milk- 
white, the spots of the terminal area of a somewhat bluish grey. Herrich-Schafefer lias given a much better 
hesperi- figure of this Andalusian form. — ab. hesperidata Rmb. seems to be really more greyish, and in any case indic- 
unh'ermria a ^ es the more brown-bordered of the Andalusian forms. — universaria Zerny (5 e), from Albarracin, has the 
borders brighter blue and usually somewhat broader, the postmedian line being placed a little further from the 
distal margin. Zerny adds Castile, but my examples from Cuenca are c. concinnaria. 
omata. S. omata Scop. I have not seen material from Amurland, which I included as a locality on the author¬ 
ity of Graeser and Staudinger; neither was my kind correspondent Dr. A. Djakonov able to give me any 
information. He wrote me that “in spite of the rich material in our Museimi from East Siberia, I do not know 
any specimen of the ornata-decorata group from the Annir-Ussuri district. It seems that it is not represented 
in this region.” Possibly it will prove to be the Wei-hai-wei form of decorata described below, or more likely a 
paucisig- near relative of (or identical with) omata subornata Prout. —- ab. paucisignata Krausse (Vol. 4, p. 151) is evi- 
ncttd. d e rrtly not a “var.” (local race) as described, but an aberration; 2 of Krausse ‘s Sardinian specimens from the 
dejecta, game altitude are in the Tring Museum and do not support his diagnosis. •— ab. defecta Stauder, described as 
almost entirely white, the cell-spots and cloudy subterminal shading wholly lacking, even the golden-brown 
spots of the latter very rudimentary, scarcely noticeable, is another extremely weakly marked aberration. Found- 
enzela. ed on a $ from Patsch, Wippthal, transitions also mentioned from Wippach and Trieste. — enzela subsp. nov. 
(5 e) has the dark markings slender (median line often wanting, the white subterminal broadened, its proximal 
brown shading slender but rather bright, its greyer shades almost obsolete, the discalonenot or scarcely intensi¬ 
fied in cellule 6), thus resembling the chance aberrations occasionally found in Europe but apparently racial 
in N. Persia. My originals are from Enzeli (see Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. 28, p. 187), but their dif¬ 
ferentiation is supported by a short series from the Elburz Mountains. 
kashmiren- S. kashmirensis Moore (5e). The typical form is the most sharply marked and most recalls omata ; it 
gooraisen- ' s generally of rather small size. We figure it from Srinagar; it is also distributed in the Punjab. — goorai- 
sis. sensis form. nov. (5 e) is larger, less pure white, the markings much weakened, the lack of the sharply expressed 
postmedian line and maculation beyond giving it a very distinctive appearance. Goorais Valley, Kashmir, a 
quettensis. good series. —- quettensis subsp. nov. is variable in size, otherwise pretty constant, intermediate between the 
other forms: clean white, the median line weak or obsolescent, the postmedian very slender, the shade outside it 
generally lighter brown, distinct on the forewing only. Quetta, the type series collected by Colonel Nurse. 
decorata. S. decorata Schiff. Several further forms of this variable species have been described and named, though 
ablutata. a few perhaps belong really to the following. — ab. ablutata Dannehl , from Central Italy, is intensely white, 
without a tinge of yellow, all the markings reduced, no dark admixture in the 2 yellow-brown terminal spots. 
lea kibe - leukiberica Wehrli (5 e), published nearly 2 months later, is described in nearly the same terms, though pro- 
rica. p 0gec | more comprehensively, to cover the prevailing (white) forms of S. Spain (loc. tvp.), Algeria, Sicily, etc., 
pumilio. and with perhaps more of the “bluish” distal shading retained. — gen. aest. pumilio Rothsch. was unfortunately 
published as a Guelt-es-Stel (Central Algeria) form of omata. “Much smaller, whiter, and not so heavily mark¬ 
ed. 10 specimens, July 1913”. The explanation is that the moderately variable first-brood series of decorata 
was sorted into three, recorded as omata, congruata and decorata , and naturally this form was attached to the 
whitest of them. It is not entirely confined to the second brood, although much the more prevalent in that. 
congruata. — congruata Z. (Vol. 4, p.79,pl 3 m) is the oldest name for these white, weakly marked Mediterranean forms, and I 
suspect that all the 3 foregoing names may have to be suppressed in its favour or (as Zeller included both 
broods in his description) we might write “ decorata congruata Z. (= ablutata Dannehl, expressly stated to be a 
first-brood form) and gen. aest. pumilio Rothsch.”. Zeller’s second-brood originals are almost precisely like 
the type series of pumilio. It is this brood only which shows the less sinuous termen and postmedian line of 
