SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
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readily be distinguished by the very much stronger median shade of the forewing, as well as the less white 
ground-colour. Natal (type) and to Nyasaland and Kenya. 
S. supina Prout (7 a). Recognizable by its broader forewing, with acute apex and smooth termen, Hiipina. 
and extraordinarily oblique postmedian line, accompanied by vein-dashes which almost reach the termen 
at the 1st radial. The red-brown face more or less suffused with blackish. Ivory Coast, Nigeria, N. E. Congo, 
Uganda (loc. typ.) and Nyasaland. 
S. natalica (7 a) differs from all the preceding species in the more angled hindwing and from nnl'ilim. 
most of them in the more sinuous and less oblique postmedian line; in both these respects it reverts towards 
the facies of curvimargo (6 h), hilineata and albicla (6 i) in Section A. Very variable; two forms besides the 
type have received names. — ab. obliterata Warr. is a dull form with the lines ol)solete, the cell-dots nhiiicrati. 
and faint subterminal clouding remaining. — ab. diffusizona Hm-psn. has a rather strong, diffused fuscous- diffiiyhona. 
brown band outside the postmedian. — Found almost throughout the Aethiopian Region, from Sierra Leone 
and the Sudan to the Cape. 
S. rubriceps Warr. (8d). Nearly related to natalica but distinguished by the dotted postmedian line ruhrk-epr. 
and the terminal dashes in place of mere dots. Angola. 
S. jejuna Prout (7 a) seems to connect deserta and dissonans (7 a) with histrigata (7 b) but is narrower-winged jejuna. 
than the two latter, the hindwing somewhat more angled than in deserta. Cell-dots minute; forewing marked 
almost as in weakly-marked deserta, the fringe pale; hindwing with the postmedian line and subterminal shades 
bent or curved at the 1st radial. Face brown, not very dark. Only 2 examples are yet known, the type $ 
from Ogruga, S. Nigeria, another $ from Joko, Cameroons, both in Mus. Tring. 
S. bistrigata Pageyist. (7 b) was described as a Timandra, but antenna, legs and venation show it a histrigata. 
typical Scopuki] ^ hindtibia dilated, with hair-pencil, tarsus as long as tibia. Apparently rather variable in 
colour, the type pale reddish yellow. Madagascar, described from the south-east; Comoro Islands. 
S. rhodocraspeda Prout (8 d). Possibly a form of the preceding, comparison difficult, as the only ^ rhodocras- 
histrigata yet known to me (Diego Suarez, 31 August) is very worn; central shade obsolete above, as also the peda. 
distal markings, which in histrigata apparently connect the postmedian line of forewing with the apex. Mustard- 
yellow to apricot-yellow, the costal edge of the forewing rosy, also the fringes. Forewing beneath suffused with 
testaceous, only the hindmargin remaining pale. Madagascar: Betsileo (Hidebbandt), 2 Diego Suarez, 2 
S. fuscobrunnea Warr. ($ = fuscifusa Prout) (7 a, b). Shorter-winged than natalica, the d' infuscated juscohrun- 
throughout, the $ only in part: Neither sex is variable and the strong sexual dimorphism — so unusual in 
this genus — misted me into describing the $ as a new species. Uganda (type locality of fuscolmtnnea) 
and the Cameroons (type locality of fuscifusca). 
S. hectata Guen. Of this species I have no material, though one or two examples which are probably hectata. 
referable to it have passed through my hands. Near fuscobrunnea (7 a, b) in shape and structure, the “pale 
testaceous grey or bone-colour” of the wings giving place to a more sombre shade in the distal area, traver¬ 
sed by a somewhat macular subterminal of the ground-colour; lines fine, dentate; cell-dots black. Face black. 
Hindtibia of (J hardly dilated. Cape. 
S. haemaleata Warr. (7 b). Rather broad-winged and So7natina-like. Hindtibia of (d with strong hair- Imemalea- 
pencil, tarsus nearly as long as tibia. The shape, the dull purple head and margins, brighter purple-red 
fringe, terminal spots of forewing and (generally) posterior thickening of median shade unmistakable. Sierra 
Leone to Gaboon, the type from Nigeria. 
S. omnisoma Prout (8 d). A pretty little species, in some lights with a very pale “quaker-drab” omnisoma. 
gloss, the terminal line dark, a characteristic spot (proximally fuscous, distally more reddish) at hindmargin 
of forewing. ^ hindtibia strongly dilated, tarsus somewhat abbreviated. Lbiderside very w'eakly marked, the 
forewing, except at hindmargin, suffused with reddish. Madagascar: Tananarive, only the type known. Scarcely 
a remarkable aberration of the following ? 
S. rubrosignaria Mob. (= minuta ITarr.) (8d). Shape, structure and essential markings closely as in rahrosig- 
the preceding. Paler, without the blotches, but with some fuscous shading preceding the darker terminal uana. 
line; fringes rosy. Madagascar. Warren’s '‘Hae^nalea 7ninuta’\ founded on a specimen acquired by auction 
and erroneously localised as from “S. America”, was fortunately published 2 months later than Mabille’s 
rubrosignaria. 
S. leucoloma Prout (8e). to rubrosignaria, hindtarsus apparently a little shorter, wings slightly icucoloma. 
more rounded. Both, excepting the distal margins and parts of the other margins, strongly suffused with 
somewhat pinkish cinnamon; forewing with antemedian line more angled than in rubrosig7iaria, both wings with 
a strongly developed subterrainal. Betsileo. 
