Puhl. 11. IV. 1933. 
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and especially — from both Epicosyrnhia and I sop] enia — by the hindtibia, which in the ^ is not oidy s])iirle.ss 
but shortened and broadened, fringed above and with hair-pencil, in the $ 2 -s])ur 7 'ed. Erected for a single 
Madagascar species. 
1. arrogans Prout (6 e). In gronnd-colour like the mucli lai’gei' E. dentisignata and I. trisinuata {(> e), but nri-of/an.s. 
with more purplish irroration, which in places (especially on thorax, at base of costa and on the fringes) tends 
to form a definite suffusion. Vertex and antennal shaft clear white. Cell-dots small but sharply Idack, median 
shade much more proximally placed than in the species named; terminal line interrupted. Hindwing beneath, 
also forewing behind fold, paler. $ rather larger (23 mm) and duller. Diego Suarez, March-April (C. Melou)) 
6 and 1 $ in Mus. Tring. — ab. (? sp. div.) degener Prout from the same source, is less reddish, without (ipgpncr. 
pui’iDle suffusions, the markings weaker, terminal line obsolete, 2 nd subcostal of hindwing scarcely stalked. 
1 (J, taken on 23 August 1917. 
15. Genus: Warr. 
Closely related to Somatina, of which it might form a section. Antenna of the G pectinate (as in only 
a few So7natina), forewing with the apex falcate and with the 2nd subcostal arising from the cell. Hindleg of 
without spurs, a long pencil from femoro-tibial joint, tarsus short but rather slender. Estaldished for 
hcmularia (6 f) and a nearly allied species from S. India. 
L. hamularia Snell. (= viridifusa Warr.) (Of). Recogisizable at once by its shape and markings, hamalarw. 
Underside pale grey, the forewing suffused with ]) 7 u-plish grey and with a broad costal stripe xanthine orange. 
Distributed from Sierra Leone to Angola. 
16. Genus: Somatina Guen. 
Antenna of d generally with fascicles of cilia, rarely pectinate. Hindtibia of d generally dilated and 
witho 7 it spurs, in a few species which are certainly congeneric simple and with a pair of terminal spurs; that 
of the $ with 4 spurs. Forewing with areole nearly always double, the outer small to very small (occasionally 
lost), the dividing vein arising from the stalk of subcostals 3 to 5 (only in some suhviridata and apicipuncta from 
the cell); 2nd radial generally from considerably before middle of discocellulars. Venation of hindwing as in 
Scopiila. A moderately large and widel}^ distributed genus, chiefly Indo-Australian and African but with 
offshoots in CLina and Japan and in America; near Scopula but with the areole nearly always double, the 
pattern usiially less simple. 
A. A n t e n n a o f p e c t i n a t e. 
S. suhviridata Warr. (5i). vSomewhat transitional towards Lissohlermna, not only in the venation 
(see above) but in the rather acute apex of the forewing. In addition to the ty|)e (J from Sierra Leone, unfortu¬ 
nately in poor condition, I know only an imperfect from Buja, Belgian Congo, and a still more worn G from 
Sekondi, Gold Coast generally less simple, the G genitalia without the specialisations which constitute Scopula 
such a natural genus. 
S. centrophora Prout (5 i) is very similar to ctenophora, but the G hindleg has a pair of spurs; forewing centroplwra. 
slightly narrower, hindwing slightly more convex, both cell-marks with some silvery scaling, as in a Problepsis. 
Cape Colony (type) and Zululand. 
S. ctenophora Prout (6 f) in its simple pattern and creamy-white ground-colour somewhat suggests ctenophora. 
an overgrown Scopula. Build very robust, especially in the $. Hindtibia of G spurless, though not dilated. 
Kenya Colony (type), Transvaal and S. W. Africa. 
B. Antenna of (J c i 1 i a t e; hindtibia of G without spurs. 
S. irregularis Warr. (6 f). A somewhat anomaloxis species, with undivided areole but certainlj^ not irregularis. 
a Scopula. Hindtibia of G strongly tufted. Pattern of forewing very distinctive. Gambia to the Congo, described 
from Nigeria. 
S. rhodochila Prout (5i). Head and antenna dull red; antennal ciliation as long as diameter of shaft, rhodochila. 
Forewing rather elongate; venation normal; distinct in its olive-buff and rosy suffusions and coai’se black 
irroration; costal and distal borders pink; cell-mark crescentic; very vague sinuous postmedian and subterminal 
brownish lines indicated, formed somewhat as in the Indian purpurascens Moore or still more oblique costally. 
Underside dirty whitish, unmarked; costal margin of forewing buff, at extreme edge redder. W. Kivu: south 
side of middle Low'a Valley, 3500 feet, forest, March 1924, wet season (T. A. Barxs). 2 Go i*i coll. Joicey. 
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