SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
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S. roezaria Sxvinh. (5 c), though also similar, is not difficiilt to distinguish. Face red (dark-mixed roezorio. 
on upper 1/3), hindtarsus of less short (not much under 1), postmedian of forewing more strongly angled 
at 1st radial, etc. Madagascar. 
S. subtaeniata Bastelh. (8e), doubtfvdly from “Madagascar”, perhaps belongs about here. White, suhiacnia- 
the forewing with the markings weak (partly abraded) excepting the composite subterminal spots about the 
1st radial and the fold, the hindwing more strongly punctuated, especially near base and along abdominal 
margin, and with yellow-brown subterminal band and antemedian half-band. I suspect a form of insolata Bllr. 
(Vol. 4, p. 78, pi. 7 c, as hutleri) with erroneous locality. 
S. rufinubes IFan'. (7 c) is the African representative, perhaps eventual synonym, of the Indian pulchel- rujinuhcs. 
lata Fb., which will be noticed in Vol. 12. More variable in Africa and with a larger percentage of reddish 
forms, the $$ heavily clouded in distal area. From sanguinisecta it differs in its smaller size, rounder hind¬ 
wing, shorter tarsus, terminal line almost as noticed under smnaria, etc.; from neplieloim'as in its spurless 
hindtibia, less angular median line, different maculation at apex, etc. Known from Ivory Coast, Uganda 
(loc. typ.), Abyssinia and Somaliland to Uar-es-Salaam, and Madagascar. 
S. horiochroea Prout (7 c). Somewhat similar to rufinubes, especially in the character of its terminal horiochroea. 
line. Rather less broad-winged, considerably paler and with the lines much less bent, the median less thick; 
cell-dots blackish but very small. Mandera, British Somaliland, only yet known from a series of 
S. nemorivagata WUgrn. (= bonaventura Warr.) (7 d). Somewhat like the palest rufinubes and nemorivagu- 
with (J hindtarsus similarly shortened; larger, forewing with terminal line not continiied roiind the apex, 
cell-dot sharply black, hindwing more angled, with straighter, in places dark-marked postmedian. The last 
character and the encircled cell-dot of the hindwing distinguish it also from penricei (7 b) and subcatenata 
(7 b). Best known from Natal, but has occurred in many parts of eastern Africa and occasionally in Nigeria 
and on Principe. Perhaps a form of the Indian nictata Guen., biit with hindwing less acutely angled. 
S. fimbrilineata Warr. (7 d). Considerably larger than 7iemorivagata; forewing with distal margin more fhnhrUi- 
sinuous, subapical s]3ot and oblique dash wanting; hindwing crenulate. Variable, but it has not yet been neata. 
found possible to divide the E. African forms (Kenya to Natal) into races; nor even to separate those from 
Madagascar. The name-type, from Kikuyu Escarpment, has the dark marks in and outside the postmedian 
strong. — ab. protuberans Warr. has the brown marks outside the postmedian almost obsolete. — ab. niobe j^rotube- 
Fawcett is suffused almost throughout with a light brownish drab. — immaculata TFarr., from the Ivory Coast, rayis. 
is perhaps a race, whiter and more weakly marked, without the dark marks on the postmedian. But forms pnmacula- 
almost as weakly marked and with the ground-colour still whiter occur also in Uganda and Nyasaland, ta. 
together with more typical ones. A few examples before me from Angola seem also rather near the nametype. 
S. aphercta Prout (7 d) 22—25 mm, thus no larger than nemorivagata (7 d); easily distinguished apherda. 
therefrom by the absence of the characteristic markings of the distal area, from fimbrilineata by the smaller 
size and smoother wing-margins, from both by the merely curved, not angled, median shade of the forewing 
and the large cell-dot of the hindwing. Southern Nigeria (loc. typ.) and Belgian Congo. 
S. vitiosaria Sivinh. (8 e), founded on 3 not very fresh specimens from E. Quaso, Masai (Kenya Colony) viiiosaria. 
has about the shape and coloration of the Palaearctic floslactata Haiv. (Vol. 4, pi. 4i); but is larger (espe¬ 
cially the $), the median shade of the forewing thicker and more sinuous, the clear sj)ace between it and the 
postmedian broad, the black cell-dot of the hindwing distinct, etc. with antennal ciliation moderate, 
hindtarsus at least hindtibia. 
S. ansorgei Warr. (7 d). A conspicuous species on account of its large size and green coloiiring- ansorgei. 
The antennal cilia of the arise from slender (rudimentary) pectinations, but there seems no need for 
Warren’s genus Ghlorocraspedia, proposed for it. Cameroons, Congo and Uganda, the type a $ from Port 
Alice. 
S. tenera Warr. (7 d). Also strikingly distinct, pallid grey, with white bands. bordering the fine dark towra. 
lines. Costa more than usually rounded, hindwing with short, tail; terminal line not intenaipted. Hindtibia 
of with hair-pencil, tarsus rather less than Yz- Kandi Country. Recently received from Uganda. 
S. suda Prout (8f). Shining white, with the costal edge buff, the lines not very sharply defined, suda. 
obsolescent anteriorly, the postmedian obscurely lunulate-dentate; no median shade, no terminal line; hind¬ 
wing subquadrate, the termen slightly siniioiis. Underside with costal edge of forewing black in ])roximal part, 
the entire cell smoky; otherwise almost unmarked. Antenna with fascicles of cilia rather long (about 2). Hind¬ 
tibia with pencils, tarsus little over Yz- Lake Kivu: Rugege Forest, Ruanda district, 7000 feet. 
S. metacosmia Prout. Face and palpus reddish, mixed with black. Hindtibia lost in the only 2 metacosmia. 
known Wings shining white, with purer white cell-marks, quite as in argentidisca (7 d);, gi’^y irroration 
