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EPICOSYMBTA; ISOPLENIA; I80PLEN0DIA. By L. B. Pbout. 
misella. 
maculala. 
mediaria. 
orbocxldta. 
iuornafa. 
deniiculata. 
pcrsfrigu- 
lata. 
chrysopam- 
lias. 
nitidata. 
subfasciata. 
spectrum. 
trisimuda. 
A. misella Prout (= inornata Warr., nom. praeocc.) (6d) is evidently derived from hirtifemur, though 
the loss of the proximal s})ur of the hindtibia brings it into the present section. Hindtibia of ^ densely clothed 
nearly to its end with coarse, specialised hair-scaling. The name-t;\’pe, as ^Varrex’s name implied, is the weakly 
marktd form, closely like oveigrown coeccma or hirtifemur. - ab. maculata ah. nov. has irregular black macu- 
lation in the distal area, strongest in the positions where it is found in lyciscaria. — ab. mediaria ah. nov. has 
a very thick and black median line. Described from Nigeria, known also from Ivory Coast and the Congo. 
A. orboculata Prout (6e). Easy to distinguish by its more purplish fawn-colour, its white vertex 
and antennal shaft, absence of white on the lower part of face and especially by the hindfemur, which has 
a long curled tiift of piu'])le-red hair, as in several Indo-Australian Anisodes] hindtibia glabrous. Abdomen 
with white and blackish spots dorsally. The type form has the white cell-dots very amply ringed with black. — 
ab. inornata ah. 'HOv. has the rings to the cell-dots greatly reduced, cpiite as in the preceding species. Madagascar: 
Diego Suarez. 
12. Genus: Epicosyiiibia Warr. 
A small genus of African and Indian species, very near Scopula in shape, facies and most structural 
characters, but the forewing with double areole, the 2nd subcostal arising from the cell, the hindwing with the 
2nd subcostal generally short-stalked with the 1st radial, never separate. Antenna of the d pectinate, with 
long branches. Hindtibia of the $ with 4 spurs. Genitalia much as in Scopula but with well-developed uncus. 
A. Hindtibia of A with one strong terminal spur [Epicosymhia Warr.). 
E. denticulata Walk. (= psrrufa Warr.) (6 e). The only Epicosymhia with the leg-structure here 
noted. Further distinguishable from ptrstrigulata by the stronger, less interrupted terminal line. Both the 
ty])es were from the Durban district, but the species extends to the Transvaal. 
B. H i n d t i b i a of A without s p u r s (Anacosymbia Prout). 
E. perstrigulata Prout (6 d). The br ight red-lrrown ground-colour is very strongly strigulated with 
dull whitish-yellow, markings very indistinct. Transvaal and extending into Southern Rhodesia. 
E. chrysoparalias Prout (6e) is perhaps a subspecies of'pe?'s/.rfgr?d«fa, from which it differs in its stronger 
markings and paler underside - that of perstrigulata (as also of denticulata) is decidedly yellow, more or less 
strongly suffused in ])art with r-ed. Terminal line heavy, as in dentisignata . Gold Coast and I think Ivory Coast 
and the Sudan. 
E. nitidata IForr. On an average larger- than the 3 precedirrg, apex of forewing slightly more acute. 
Ground-colour less reddish, often cpiite pale, that of the underside often whitish, generally strongly marked. 
Natal (loc. typ.) and the Transvaal. Warrex's type of nitidata was a remarkably weakly marked aberration 
and it is unfortunate that the name which he earlier gave to the commoner form is preoccupied. — ab. sub¬ 
fasciata nom. nov. albivertex Warr. nec Swinli.) (6 e) has the median area of the forewing more or less dark- 
suffused, sometimes forming a handsome band; some dark suffusion also present in the posterior half of the 
distal area of the forewing. 
E. spectrum Prout (5 i) differs from nitidata in the smaller cell-dots, in the shape of the darkened 
median area of the forewing and its striking circular pale patch round the cell-dot, and in the ])osition of the 1st 
line of the hindvving. Abdomen darkened above, with a whitish anterior siiot. Naliagulo Forest near Kampala, 
only the tyqie A known. 
Id. Gonus: Isopleilia Warr. 
Most characters as in Epicosymhia . Antenna of the $ pectinate, though more shortly than that of the A- 
Hindtibia of the A with 2, of the $ with 4 spurs. A genitalia extremely asymmetrical, with aboi'ted uncus, a 
niappa and one well-develo])ed ceras (the right-hand one). Only one species known. 
1. trisinuata Warr. (6e). Cell-dots minute or wanting; median line as fine and sharp as the others, 
much less zigzag than that of E. nitidata. Described from Natal, but very widely distributed; Gold Coast, Angola, 
Nyasaland and Cape Colony are the other localities as yet known to me. 
14. Genus: iKoplcsioilia Prout. 
Probably a development of Epicosymbia, similar in shape and coloration, the long pectinations of the 
A antenna, the double areole of the forewing and shortly stalked subcostal of the hindwing. Distinguished 
by the very short and slender i^alpus, the $ antenna, which is pectinate but more shortly than that of Isoplenia, 
