SCOPULA. By L. B. Proitt. 
cacsaria. 
dcfecta. 
airaiiicnfd- 
rla. 
pcnrlcci. 
sangmm- 
secta. 
muscosaria. 
suhcatcua- 
ta. 
albida. 
hafesi. 
iondscrhpta. 
perornaia. 
iricommata. 
clegans. 
ossicolor. 
quiniaria. 
p>rincipls. 
ffparsipiunc- 
laia. 
6S 
S. caesaria Walk. (— obturbata Walk., perfectaria Walk., faeculentaria Mah., rufimixtaria Wa7r., 
Caesarea Fuchs) (7 b). As widely distributed as opicata but more variable; genei'ally, however, very easy 
to recognize by the vinaceous, grey-clouded distal area, which on the forewing anteriorly narrows to the apex, 
nearly as in fuscolmumea fringes clearer vinaceous. hindtibia somewhat dilated, tarsus a little shorter. 
Hindwing roimded. — ah. defecta ah. 7iov. almost entirely lacks the characteristic borders, but may still 
be known liy the pinkish fringes. — African localities known to me are Gambia, Nigeria, Congo, Nyasaland, 
Tanganyika Territory to Cape Colony, Comoro Is., Madagascar. Eastward it reaches New Guinea and Au.3tralia. 
S. atramentaiia Basrelb. (6 h) is characterized by the extremely dark markings of the distal are a and 
the black-ringed and black-tipped abdomen. The t;v"lie (J, from Kidugala, Tanganyika Territory, remains 
unique; but see the following. 
S. penricei Piout (7 b) may, I suspect, prove to be a race or the nornral form of the species which 
Bastelberger earlier described as atra^neiitaria. Markings of abdorrrerr and of distal area mrrch less extre- 
rrrely dark. Erorrr sangumisecta it differs irr the red-brown face and palpus, slightly more irregirlar shape, 
Irrowner lines, differerrt airterior macrrlation of srrbtermirral area and dark-dotted fringe. Arrgola (type) and 
N. Rhodesia. 
S. sanguinisecta Warr. (7 b). Face black. Hirrdtibia dilated with hair-perrcil, tarsrrs about as long 
as tibia. On the differerrtiation from pe^iricei see above. $ rrrore greyish, especially irr distal area, the spots 
weak or rrearly obsolete. Ca])e Colorry to Kerrya, the type froirr Natal. — ab. muscosaria Wan', is a large 
$ frorrr the Kikrrytr Escarpment with urrusually heavy dark irroratiorr. Should the variable East African 
forirrs prove to constitrrte a race, this irairre must be apj)lied to it. — subcatenata Prout (? sp. div.) (7 b). 
More flesh-colorrred, rrredian line strorrgly irrcurved at fold, srrbtermirral spots more nurrrerous, though corrr- 
nronly weaker or arrteriorly srrraller, irr the $ gerrerally fortrring a complete chain. Madagascar: Diego Suarez. 
— ab. albida Prout has the ground-colour whitish; taken among typical siihcatenata. 
S. bates! Prout (8 e). Closely like a large, pale, weak-irrarked scmguinisecta, the postrrrediarr of the 
forewing slightly rrrore sirrrrous, the hindtarsrrs only about % as long as the hindtibia. Cameroorrs. Gerrdern, 
4600 feet, only the type ^ known. 
S. tersuiscripta Prout (7 c), from Barberton, Trairsvaal, rrray be a rrear relative of sanguinisecta, without 
the macrrlation of the distal area. But if the arrtenrra (unfortrrirately lost irr the d' typ^) were pectinate it 
irright prove to belong to cw'vwiargo (6h). 
S. petomata Th.-Mieg. 19 mnr. Near decorata Schijj. (Vol. 4, p. 80, pi. 4 irr). Pure white, forewing 
with a very fiire black median line, crossing a small cell-mark of the same colour. Postmedian a little more zigzag, 
followed by blackish brown spots. Distal margin of both wings marked with black betweerr the veins, espe¬ 
cially near the apex. No central line on the hindwing, but a small dash orr the discocellular black, not 
a (1 o t as in decorata. Fringes white, mottled with black. Underside pure white, without m a r k i rr g s. 
Face white, grey above. Ibo, Mozambique, 1 Unknown to irre. 
S. tricommata Warr. (7 c). Also similar to some forirrs of decorata, or still more like the Indiarr deli- 
ciosaria Walk., of which latter it may be a race, in general less sharply marked, the underside unmarked. 
Hindtarsrrs of very short. From peror^iata^ it nrust differ in the black face, position of median line (which, 
moreover, is strong orr the hindwing) and mixture of brown and blue-grey in the colouring of the subter¬ 
minal spots. Gambia to the Congo, S. W. Abyssinia and Unyoro, described from the last-narrred. 
S. elegans Prout (7 c). Smaller and shorter-winged than tricornmata, with the nraculation differently 
arranged, the subterminal blotches being costal, hindmarginal, and between 3rd radial and 2nd median. Hind- 
tibial pencil of cj strong, tarsus very short. Gold Coast to Congo arrd (loc. tjqr.) Uganda. 
S. ossicolor Warr. {= submarginata Warr.) (7 c). Also small and short-winged, but not white; ante- and 
postmedian lines rrrarked with black vein-dots; outer srrbterminal shade with soirre rather characteristic dark 
markings at the radials and rrear tornrrs. Hirrdtarsus of Cs or hirrdtibia. Sierra Leone (type) to Corrgo 
arrd perhaps Angola. 
S. quintaria Prout (7c). Whiter than ossicolor, but rather less prrre white tharr friconwiata. Hirrdtar¬ 
sus less tharr hindtibia, but apparently not quite so short as in ossicolor, of which at orre tirrre I thorrght 
it rrright be a local race. Natal. A few exanrples frorrr Gazaland, Angola, Nyasaland arrd even L^ganda may 
be slight geographical variations of it, but are irrsufficient for working out irr this difficrrlt group. — principis 
Prout has the rrpperside almost pure white, the forewing beneath smoky proxirrrally and with a postrrrediarr 
liire more or less developed (in quintaria ahrrost as rrnirrarked as in trico^iimata). Founded orr 6 $$ frorrr 
Principe, 1500—2000 feet, April—May 1926. 
S. sparsipunctata Mab. (7 c) is perhaps arrother race of the sarrre species as the two preceding, arrd 
would provide the oldest rrarrre. Except that the distal irrargin aird the postrrrediarr lirre ajrpear slightH less 
sirruorrs, I carr poirrt to little difference. Madagascar. 
