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6G SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
a blacker costal spot, then weaker, much more angled outward at 1st radial, postmedian also more bent 
anteriorly, hindwing beneath less strongly marked. Kenya: Kibwezi and Mombasa. 
S. recurvinota Karr. (8 c). Position in the genus doubtful. Whiter than the preceding, wings rather 
narrower, the hindwing more angled, the punctiform postmedian on the forewing angled outward on 1st 
radial; characterized by the strong black po.stmedian spot at hindmargin of each wing. Kikuyu Escarpment, 
the unique type $ not very fresh. 
S. subpectinata Prout (6 m). Teeth of antenna developed into rudimentary pectinations, from which 
arise the long fascicles of cilia. Further distinguished by the fleshy ground-colour and the large black cell- 
dot of the hindwing. Hindtibia of dilated, tarsus about as long as tibia. Described from Uganda, but now 
known also from Oubangui-Chari-Tchad, Cameroons and Uelle district (N. E. Belgian Congo). 
S. umbratilinea Warr. Probably very near snlpectinafa (6 m) but rather larger, duller-coloured, fore¬ 
wing with distal margin rather more sinuous, median line and its accompanying shade dark, almost confluent, 
a|)ical dash and dark post median spots between the radials undeveloped. Kilimandjaro, only a few $$ kirown. 
S. opicata Fb. (= infantularia Guen., vanaria Walk.) (6 m). Unlike any other Scopida, mistakenly 
supposed by GiiEisrEE to belong to the South American genus Pigia. Hindtibia of moderately dilated, tarsus 
slightly abbreviated. First described from India, it has proved to have an exceptionally wide distribution 
from W. Africa to New Guinea. I have seen African examples from Sierra Leone to Angola, Uganda, Nyasa, 
Tanganyika and Zanzibar. 
S. euphemia Prout (6 m). Structure much as in opicata. Also whitish, but with little further re¬ 
semblance. May be recognized by its rather narrow wings, thick brown lines, the median of the forewing 
highly oblique, and sharp black cell-dot. S. Nigeria. 
S. mesophaena Prout (6 m) is another small species, differing structurally in the appreciably longer 
antennal ciliation, slender hindtibia and long hindtarsus of the (J, and superficially in its smaller cell-dots 
and much stronger lines, especially the oblique median, postmedian of hindwing anteriorly curved, etc. Kenya 
Colony (type locality Kibwezi) and Tanganyika Territory. 
S. commaria Swinh. (8 d) may be the $ of f ragiUs, rather narrower-vdnged, more robust, with the oblique 
line axid the postmedian of the forewing somewhat differently placed, the former thicker. Kikuyu Escarpment. 
S. fragilis Warr. (6 m). Slenderly built, the anteriorly elongate hindwing in its anterior part white and 
unmarked, antennal ciliation moderately long, hindtibia slender, tarsus rather longer than tibia. Kikuyu Escarp¬ 
ment and the Aberdare Range. 
S. silonaria Guen. (= sticticata Warr.) (6 m). Recognizable at a glance by its shape. Hindwing above 
paler und with less markings than forewing, underside in part reversing these conditions; reminiscent of Bhodo- 
strophia pelJoniaria Guen. (from India), next to which Guenee placed it. Hindleg of slender, with tarsus 
rather long. Abyssinia (type), Kenya Colony, Uganda and N. E. Congo. 
S. erinaria Swinh. (6 m) and most of the species which follow (as far as fuscobrunnea) have the face 
brown (like silonaria) instead of the black which is so general in the genus, but have a normal Scopula shape 
and facies. In typical erinaria, from Kenya Colony, the median shade of the forewing is thick, close to the 
postmedian. — isolata Prout, from Cape Colony and Basutoland, has the median line slender, passing mid¬ 
way between cell-dot and postmedian, the shade outside the postmedian rather strong. 
S. erymna Prout (8 d) is probably near bigeminata, notwithstanding the very different course of the 
lines, but the remains unknown. The brown face is mixed with black. E. Abyssinia. 
S. bigeminata Warr. (7 a). Rather variable in colour, but otherwise pretty stable. The very oblique 
double line which crosses both wings is unmistakable. — rufifimbria Warr. is an aberration with a reddish 
tinge, especially on the fringe. — Cameroons, Angola, Uganda, Sudan, Abyssinia, Kenya, Transvaal, Natal 
and Cape. 
S. alma Prout (7 a). Face black. Somewhat recalls, except in size, the Palaearctic emutaria Hb. (Vol. 4, 
p. 75, pi. 41), but the hindwing is not tailed, only very slightly bent at 3rd radial; lines more brownish than 
in that species. Hindtibia of G dilated, with long hair-pencil, tarsus almost as long as tibia. Nairobi. 
S. deserta Warr. (7 a). Variable in colour, but with warmer shades than erinaria, the fringe suffused 
with reddish or darkened; median shade further removed from the dotted postmedian line than even in 
erinaria isolata. Transvaal to Cape Colony, described from Natal. 
S. dissonans Warr. (7 a). Wings rather broader than in deserta, colour paler, median shade and the 
one just outside the postmedian thick, antenna of ^ with stronger fascicles of cilia. From erinaria it can 
