SCOPULA. Bv L. B. Peout. 
'micrnaia. 
pvdois. 
rlrc7t7iipunc- 
tata. 
pracrupin- 
rwn. 
ccrinnata. 
improha. 
dur. 
acidalia. 
luxvpimctn. 
Cornish i. 
suhldbuta. 
crassipunc- 
ta. 
adclpharia. 
S. internata Guen. {= strigulifera Walk., illiturata Walk.) (7 f) is recognizable by the brown hind- 
marginal spot between the postmedian and the subterminal of the forewing as well as by the shape of the 
postmedian, etc. Hindtibia of with strong i^encils, the tarsus quite short. The name-type is small, cartridge 
buff and without black dots on the fringe and is found in Namaqualand (type locality) and from the Cape 
to the Transvaal. —ab. pudens Wart\ is pinkish-buff, with more cinnamon-buff shading, the markings weakened. 
1 $ from Durban. circumpunctata Watr., founded on a worn (J from Barberton, seems to be a mere 
aberration with the vein-dots and fringe-dots rather well developed, the posterior spot of the forewing more 
fuscoiis. — praeruptorum Front (7 f) is perhaps a separate species, as the d' hindtarsus seems a little less 
shortened; generally larger, though very variable in size (25—30 mm), as well as in markings, always greyer, 
with strong fringe-dots, the posterior spot of the forewing varying from much darker grey or blackish to 
complete evanescence. Kikuyu Escarpment, 6500 -9000 feet, obtained in plenty by Dohekty. Also known 
from Kilimandjaro. 
S. cervinata Warr. (7 f) is imperfectly known, perhaps a somewhat less broad-winged form of the 
following, rather paler or more tinged with fawn-colour. From Sierra Leone I have only seen the type $ and 
another. A series from Bingerville, Ivory Coast, is rather variable and in some measure transitional. 
S. improba Warr. (7 f). Somewhat resembles a small praeruptortim, but the apex of the forewing is a 
little less produced. Equally variable, but always more suffused, sometimes very dark, the postmedian 
line relatively weaker, etc. Uganda (the tyjDe series), Upper Congo and Cameroons. 
S. dux Front (8g), founded on 2 $$ from Sao Thome, is a relatively large species with nearly the 
coloration of cervinata or the lighter $$ of improha, the markings similar, the forewing slightly more pro¬ 
duced apically. Abdomen with blackish dorsal spots. From praermptormn (7 f) it differs in its somewLat larger 
size, anteriorly more zigzag postmedian, etc. A from Kumbo, Nigeria, 5500 feet, in my collection, rather 
smaller and paler than the tyjje and withoiit the abdominal spots, may reinesent a race and has the hindleg 
structure of internata. 
S. acidalia Roll., described as “CapnodesV’, is unknown to me, but Sir Geoege Hampson, who 
examined the type, declared it a Scopula. “Pale cinereous. The forewings are crossed by a subbasal and 
parallel limbal band, and have a triple series of very fine light brown submarginal waved markings. Just 
below the costa before the apex are two miniite blackish dots. The (distal) margin is defined by minute 
blackish dashes on the interspaces.’’ Hindwing similarly marked. Both wings with a minute blackish cell-dot. 
“Underside pale whitish. The lines of the forewing reappear, especially the submarginal series. Neither wing 
shows the discal dot. Expanse 22 mm.” W. Africa. Possibly a pale aberration of improha (7 f), weakly marked 
beneath. 
S. luxipuncta Front (8 g). 26 mm. Antenna subdentate-fasciculate, the ciliation rather long. Hind- 
tibia little dilated, but with a long pale hair-pencil; tarsus somewhat over Forewdng wdiitish buff, with 
more fleshy suffusion in distal area; shadowy lines of the latter colour, the median excurved considerably 
beyond the strong black cell-dot, the postmedian black vein-dots exceptionally angled outward at 1st radial. 
Hindwing with termen waved, very slightly prominent at 3rd radial. Eorewing beneath irregidarly suffused 
with grey proximally, cell-dot black, markings outside it greyer; hindwing almost unmarked, except cell- 
dot and terminal dots. W. Kivu (loc. typ.). Also from Kampala, Uganda. 
S. cornishi Front (7 f). 23—28 mm. In shape near luxipnncta, the forewing being scarcely so broad 
and convex-margined as in praeruptorum and improha. The whitish ground-colour shows, in fresh specimens, 
a strong fleshy sidlusion; markings intermediate between those of hixipuncta (8g) and the preceding group, the 
postmedian recalling the latter, the very distally placed median of the forewing as in the former, but dis¬ 
tinct from that of both in its less grey, more fawn colouring, d' antenna nearly as in luxipuncta, hindtibia 
with normal hair-pencils, tarsus well over tt. Madagascar; Ambinanindrano, 50 km W. of Mohanoro. 
S. sublobata Warr. (= khakiata Warr.) (7 g). An iinimposing little species, best recognized by its 
tone of colour and especially the shaj^e of its hindwing, with appreciably produced anal angle. Hindtarsus 
of d over Yi tibia. Transvaal {s%ihlohata) and Natal {khakiata) and extending to Angola, Barotse and Nyasa. 
S. crassipuncta Warr. Bather smaller and darker than stihlohata, forewing slightly less oblique- 
margined, hindwing slightly more sineious but not dissimilar in shape; cell-dots enlarged, that of hindwlng 
elongate; postmedian somewhat farther from termen. Benguella, only the originals (2 $$) known. 
S. adelphatia Fung. (Vol. 4, pi. 3 k, as adelphata). Of this species, described from Jericho, but per¬ 
haps a straggler from the African region, I have seen a few examples — or at least I cannot distinguish 
them —from Senegal, Gambia and even Angola. Less dusted than minorata (7g), the lines less grey, the 
underside weaker-marked; hindtarsus shorter. 
