LEUCOXENA; SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
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A. acinosa Profit (5 1) can scarcely be a form of the preceding, though the structure seems about the dchiDnu. 
same. Forewing with distal margin slightly more sinuous, hindwing with the tooth at the 1st ludial rathej- moi-e 
acute. Deeper purplish, the green blotches larger, including some partially rounded ones in the distal area. Sao 
Thome, recorded in Tr. Ent. Soc. Bond. 1927, p. 189 as dentilinea; tyjie in coll. JoicEV. 
A. callibotrys Prout (5 1). Antenna of (J with short, fascicle-bearing pectinations. Further distinguish- raliiholri/s. 
able from dysmorpha by the shape, from dentilinea by the postmedian line, from acinosa by the reduction 
of the green s^Dots. Congo: Upper Ka.sai River (type); also French Guinea, Uganda and (perhai)s a sei)arable 
race) Madagascar. 
21. Genus: liCiieoxeiia Wan-. 
An offshoot of Scopula, characterized by the longer anastomosis of the costal vein of the hind wing 
with the cell. Antenna of d strongly pectinate, as in some species which we have placed at the head of 
Scopula. Palpus rather strong. Hindleg of <!' without spurs, but not aborted; of $ with 4 spurs. Hindwing 
relatively long costally, but this can also occur in Scopula, e. g. impersonata Walk., from China. Only one 
species is referred here. 
L. lactea Warr. (6 g). Easily recognizable by the shape and structure, the narrow brown band which bicicn, 
accompanies the postmedian line of the forewing distally, etc. Forewing beneath dark-suffused, especially in 
the d; hindwing less so, but with a postmedian band indicated, much as in the forewing above. Kenya Co¬ 
lony; it has been taken as far north as the Ganale River (Galla). 
22. Genus : l^eoptila Sckrank. 
This enormous genus, formerly known by the younger names of Acidalia Tr. (preoccupied in the Rho- 
palocera, according to the dates now acceiked for Hubner’s “VerzeichniB”), Graspedia Plh., etc., is of almost 
worldwide distribution and in most respects very uniform in structure. Less robust and with less hairy 
pectus than Somatina and Prohlepsis, the species generally of smaller size and simpler pattern. Palpus moderate 
or more generally short. Antenna of A generally ciliated, rarely pectinate. Hindtibia of sometimes with 2 
spurs, generally spurless, very often with hair-j3encils; of $ with 4 spurs. Fore wing with areole simide, 2nd 
radial normal. Hindwing with costal vein anastomosing with cell at a jjoint near base, 2nd siibcostal separate, 
connate or inconsiderably stalked. Genitalia of A with “cerata” and “max)pa” (see Vol. 4, p. 51; Pierce, Genit. 
Brit. Geom. p. XXIV). Larva extremely slender, sometimes almost thread-like. Well represented in all parts 
of Africa. 
A. Section Juduna Warr. Antenna of ^ with long pectinations. 
rufisa Isa -group. 
Hindtibia of A with terminal spurs. 
S. rufisalsa Warr. (6 h), the ty^ie of the section Indnna, is variable in size and in the strength of rufimlsu. 
the markings but may readily be known by its shape (apex of forewing rather sharp, termen markedly 
oblique) and its finely crenulate postmedian line. Lbiderside marked almost like iqiper. The name-typical race 
has a decided suffusion of pale pinkish buff or vinaceous buff. Described from Natal but extends north¬ 
ward to S. Rhodesia and southward to Griqualand. — pallidisalsa Prout is paler, even the most brownish pallulisal- 
specimens showing a less warm (less buff) tone and generally has the median line of the hindwing placed 
outside, instead of crossing, the cell-dot. Kenya Colony, the type from Mt. Kenya, 3300—3500 m. (Allfaud 
and Jeannel), in Mus. Paris. Also from Tanganyika Territory. Whether the form from N. E. Rhodesia 
recorded by Hampson as rufisalsa belongs here or to another race, I have no means of knowing. 
S. palpifera Prout (6 h) is very similar, especially in shap)e, to raifisalsa but white and very weakly palpifcra. 
marked, especially above. The palpus appears somewhat stronger, but it is not inconceivable that it may be 
a remarkable race of the same species, though the only known has unfortunately lost its hindlegs. S. W. 
Africa. 
S. palleuca Prout (6 h). Considerably smaller and relatively a little less long-winged than palpifera, patlcuca. 
the face white (in both the preceding species light brown), cell-dots present, that of the forewing conspi¬ 
cuous fairly large. S. W. Africa also N’Gami. A A form which I believe to belong with it (taken with the 
t 5 qie) has forewing and face more tinged with brown, but is still differentiable by the other characters. 
