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SCOPULA. By L. B. Prout. 
less definite, forewings with antemedian line much less oblique, median shade diffuse, postmedian about 3 mm 
from termen. Hindwing with inner margin rather elongate, bend in terinen faint. Kenya Colony and Usambara. 
argcniidis- S. argentidisca Warr. (= naias Warr.) (7 d). Somewhat variable in the strength and curvature of the 
postmedian line of the forewing and its accompanying shade, but constant in the elongate white cell-mark 
of the hindwing, all the rest of that wing densely irrorated with olive-grey. Kenya Colony. Also in Tanganyika 
Territory. 
coninrgyrif!. S. COiliargyris Pjwf (8 e) $, 24 mm. Face black. Wings white, copiously and almost regularly sprink¬ 
led with black; cell-dot minute; lines pale buff, somewhat obscured by the black irroration, finer than the 
olive-buff lines of quaclrifasciata, much more sinuous, more as those of superior Butl., (Vol. 4, pi. 4m) etc.; 
median line well beyond cell-dot; outer subterminal ill-defined, macular; terminal dots minute. Hindwing 
with 1st line wanting, median proximal to cell-dot. Underside with the irroration weaker, cell-dots and ter¬ 
minal dots as above, lines on forewing fainter and greyer, on hindwing obsolescent. N. E. of Mweru: Lufonso 
River, E. Luvua Valley, 5700 feet, only the type known. 
qitadrifasci- S. quadrifasciata Bastelh. (= glaucocyma Huvpsn.) (8f) is characterized by having the lines developed 
ata. slightly sinuous bands. Hindwing not angled: ^ hindtarsus not much shorter than the tibia. Nigeria, 
Angola, CTganda and from Kenya to South Rhodesia; described from Kigonsera, Lake Nyasa. 
antiloparia. S. antiloparia Wllgrn. is probably, according to the description, identical with sincera and the 
name would have priority. But Wallengben’s type from the River Kuisip, S. W. Africa, has the lines broad 
(“fasciae”) the proximal subterminal broader than the others, the forewing beneath perhaps more infuscated 
than in sincera and the antennal ciliation perhaps stronger. A Barotse ^ in the Tring Museum may belong 
with it, but does not show any special broadening of the proximal subterminal band. A Transvaal speci¬ 
men subsequently recorded by Wallengren is probably sincera. 
sincera. S. siticcra Warr. (7 e). Lines more slender, perhaps more olive-tinged (yet scarcely as in quadrifas¬ 
ciata), the distal siibterminal very slight. Structure similar. Angola (type), Rhodesia and Transvaal. 
megaiostig- S. megalostigma Prout (8f), founded on a 2 from Abanga River, Gaboon, is perhaps related to 
straminea, but is much paler (ivory-yellow), broad-winged, the lines almost obsolete, the cell-spot of the 
hindwing without any accompanying cloud. 
ludihunda. S. ludibuilda Prout resembles minorata (7 g) in size, shape and markings, but has the straw-yel¬ 
lowish tinge which is characteristic of the following group. ^ antennal ciliation considerably longer than 
in minorata (about 2), hindtarsus over % tibia. S. Rhodesia (type) and southward to Cape Colony. 
straminea. S. straminea Feld. (81) exists in two principal forms, scarcely connected by intermediates. The 
name-typical has large cell-spots, that of the hindwing accompanied distally by a large brown cloud. — ab. 
sumpta. sumpta Prout is an unimportant aberration, with the dark cloud of the hindwing more extended, crossing 
melUflua. the postmedian line. — ab. melliflua Warr. is the other principal form, the cell-spot of the forewing puncti- 
form, that of the hindwing, as well as the distal cloud, wanting. — The hindtibia of the (J is strongly dilated, 
the tarsus much shortened. Natal and Cape Cblony, Felders’ type from Knysna. 
protcroce- S. proteroccUs Prout (8f), founded on a $ from Ilesha, Southern Nigeria, may perhaps be a form 
of the i^receding, but has blackish terminal dots, a more sinuous postmedian line and less faintly marked 
underside. 
macrocelis. S. itiacrocelis Prout (7 e) is again similar, but has a hindmarginal blotch on the postmedian of the 
forewing and generally a corresponding, but smaller, mark on the abdominal margin of the hindwing; cell- 
dots quite small. Structure nearly as in straminea (81), so that it is just possible we are dealing with a single 
polymorphic species, of which macrocelis would be the usual W. African form. Cameroons (type), French 
Congo anti Sierra Leone. 
flavisswia. S. flavissilTia Warr. (7 e). Smaller, hindwing less bent, postmedian of both wings almost straight, 
fringes rather strongly reddish. Nigeria (loc. typ.) and Sierra Leone. 
iranssecta. S. traiissecta Warr. ($ = dissimulans Warr.) (7 e). The largest of the group, much paler than the 
4 preceding, and recognizable at once by its fii'in oblique line and bright brown costal edge and fringes. 
clarisshna. Range as in flavissima. — ab. (? subsp.) clarissima nov. is still larger (d' 38 mm) white, the line very 
firm, on the forewing a little more oblique, reaching SC^ relatively nearer to the apex. Uganda: Nabagulo 
Forest, 5 miles from Kampala, October-November 1921 (W. Feather), a fine in Mus. Tring. As the hind¬ 
wing is rather well bent at R®, this may perhaps prove a species. 
hahilis. S. habilis IFarr. (7 e). Smaller than irawssecto, more brownish, the fringes concolorous or a little paler, 
the line less oblique, at anterior end slightly curved, a cell-dot present on forewing. Gold Coast to Ca¬ 
meroons, the type from Nigeria. 
