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SCOPULA. By L. B. Pkoft. 
neplielo- 
peros. 
ocellirhicld. 
aiio'iffid. 
catidida- 
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pUouorcu- 
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ectoposiig- 
ma. 
longHar- 
sala. 
hiftincera. 
ftiiuuirhi. 
hisiiiiinid. 
accnira. 
n'Kjrinola- 
lu. 
uniforini^. 
arijUlacca. 
S. nepheloperas Prout (6 k) somewhat recalls some Glossotrophia or the Palaearctic S. submutata Tr. 
(Vol. 4, pi. 4i). On an average smaller than the last-mentioned, more ochreons or sandy, antennal ciliation in 
both sexes longer, face i)ale in lower half, etc. Described from British Somaliland, since received from Abyssinia 
and Asben. 
S. ocelHcincta Warr. (5f). Distinct in the ringed cell-dots and the dark spots of the snbterminal 
area. Only known from both from Athi ya Mawe, Kenya Colony. 
S. anoista Provf (5f). Nearly as l)road-winged as plionocentra but very differently marked, the fore¬ 
wing having an orange-cinnamon spot at the tornus and weaker indications of a subtenninal one between 
the radials. Forewing l)eneath well marked, hindwing beneath plain whitish. Ja River, S. Cameroons. 
S. carsdidaria Warr. (G k). Conspicuously distinct in its group, relatively large, white, wdth dentate 
markings. Pore wings beneath strongly smoky. Kikuyu Escarpment. 
S. plionocentra Prout (6 k). An obscure little species but scarcely variable. Apart from its spurred 
hindtibia it can be distinguished from the mass of similarly coloured species which we place at the end of Sco- 
pula l>y its very zigzag, punctiform outer line, placed on a narrow shadowy basal or thick line and apparently 
I’epresenting on the forewing a combination of the postmedian with the first subterminal shade. Nigeria (loc. 
typ.) to Gaboon and Uganda. 
S. minoa Prout (6 k) differs from all the rest by the entire absence of markings. Build rather robust. 
Wing.s strongly glossy, of a rather characteristic colour-tone. Face not darker than the rest of the head and 
body. Somaliland (tyi:)e), Al)yssinia and Kenya Cblony. 
C. Section Sro/ntfa. Antenna of ^ i 1 i f'- f ^ ^ 7 i’ a r e 1 y with short pectina- 
t i o n s); h i n d t i b i a of d' without s p u r s. 
S. ectopostignia Prout (5f). Face black. Antennal joints slightly projecting, ciliation scarcely over 
1. Collar buff. Hindtibia fringed with coarse scaling above and tufted at extremity, tarsus almost as long as 
tibia. Forewing with cell noticeably over U; irroration not strong; the light brown lines rather weak. Hind¬ 
wing with cell fidly Underside with cell-dot and traces of the lines beyond, fore wing with smoky suffusion 
in cell. Fernando Po, 3000—4000 feet, 1 somewhat wasted but easily recognizable. 
S. longitarsata Prout (6 k). (J with antennal joints projecting, the fascicles of cilia somewhat longer 
than diameter of shaft; hindtibia slender, of about the same length as femur, tarsus markedly longer. In 
shape and coloration reminiscent of a miniature virgutata Schiff. (Vol. 4, pi. 4 k), but with sharper cell-dots, 
median and postmedian lines of forewing curved near costa, these lines on hindwing more proximally placed, 
terminal line more broken into dashes, hindwing beneath with ])ostmedian much more distal than above. 
Kenya Colony: Kibwezi. 
S. ifisincera Prout (8 1). Very similar to sincera Warr., biit with the $ hindtibia short and slender, the 
tai'sus longer than the tibia. Wings less clear white on both surfaces, especially on the forewing l^eneath, 
first line farther from the base and more oblique, black terminal dots wanting. Transvaal (t;\q3e) and Transkei. 
S, sinnaria Swinh. (6 k). Both wings with postmedian line very distal, sinuous (possibly Swinhoe intended 
to wiite “sinuaria'"), median on the forewing clear, similarly formed; terminal markings very characteristic, 
the very fine black terminal line being continued roimd the apex and finely edged proximally and distally with 
white, as in nepheloperas (6 k) and the European submutata. Hindtarsus of d' I'lof abbreviated. Kenya Colony. — 
bisinuata Warr. is generally browner, but some examples differ little from the greyish name-tv])e. Angola 
(loc. t>q3.) and from Nyasaland to the Cape. 
S. acentra Warr. (8 b) resembles a giant nigrinotata, rather evenly irrorated and wdthout enlarged costal 
spots on the forewdng. Structure similar, but the cJ hindtibia less thickened. “South Africa” (Natal). Also knowar 
from the Transvaal. 
S. nigrinotata Warr. (6 1). Extremely variable in colour, no doubt — as with its Palaearctic relatives, 
the marginepu'nctata-gm\\\r — adaptive to the soil on which it occurs. Hindtibia of ^ thickened, tarsus at least 
as long as tibia. Forewing with black or dark costal spots at the beginning of the lines, including a 
subbasal. The name-typical form, described from Nyasaland, is dirty white, more of less strongly irrorated with 
blackish, giving rise to innumerable subordinate variations. — ab. uniformis Prout is almost uniformly dusted 
with dark grey, closely like the Indian cleoraria Wall'., except in the less white siditerminal spots; markings, 
in consequence, much weakened, even the costal spots not conspicuoiis. — ab. argillacea Prout denotes the 
more clay-tinted, or cinnamon-buff forms, which seem rather prevalent about Cape Town and in other 
parts of Cax^e Colony. — S. nigrinotata is known from Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Abyssinia, E. Africa and Nyasa¬ 
land (chiefly in the whiter forms) and Rhodesia to the Cape (largely in more suffused or more brownish 
forms). 
