SOXUSA. — LOPHILEMA. 479 



250. Sozusa scutellata, del. Lithosia natalica. 

 251. Macrosia fumeola, insert (syn.) : — 



Lithosia natalica, MiJschl. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 354 (1872). 



251 a. Macrosia chalybeata. (Plate XXV. fig. 3(3.) 



Macrosia chalybeata, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 179 (1901). 



Head and tegulae at base orange ; thorax blue-grey with orange 

 patch on metathorax ; pectus and legs orange, the mid and hind 

 femora above fuscous ; abdomen orange, dorsally greyish towards 

 base. Fore wing steely blue-grey, the costa and cilia orange. 

 Hind wing orange. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the termen yellow. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Eb Urru (Betton), 3 $ type, S. Kavi- 

 rondo, Kenyamkaga (Neave), 1 <3 , Kuja Valley (Neave), 1 $ ; 

 Br. C. Africa, Mombera Distr. (Neave), 1 $ ; Mash onal and, 

 Salisbury (Marshall), 2 c? , 1 $ ; Transvaal (Pea J, Gholmley), 

 1 c? , 2 2 , Pretoria (Distant), 2 $ , Johannesburg (Boss), 1 $ , 

 Grcenvley (Janse), 1 $ ; Basxttoland, Maseru ( Crawshay), 1 5; 

 Cape Colony, Deelfontein (tilo<j<j<it), 1 £ , Zuurburg (Bairstow), 

 1 $ . Exp. 28-42 millim. 



Genus LOPHILEMA. 



Lophilema, Axiriv. Sjo.st. Kilimanjaro-Meru Exp. ii. 9, p. 26 Type. 



(1910) polioplaga. 



Proboscis folly developed ; palpi short, porreet ; frons smooth ; antennae of 

 male with long bristles and cilia. Fore wing- long and narrow; vein 2 from 

 middle of cell, curved at base ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 6 from below 

 npper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell ; male with a large triangular 

 patch of androconia on upporside in and below terminal half of cell. Hind 

 wing very ample ; vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 absent ; C, 7 

 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



In key differs from Macrosia in the fore wing having vein 6 from below 

 angle of cell and no areole. 



251 1>. Lophilema polioplaga. 



Macrosia poUoplaga, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 180 (1901). 

 Lophilema sordidtt, Auriv. Sjost. Kilimanjaro- Meru Exp. ii. 9, p. 20 

 (1910). 



cS ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown. Fore wing bright 

 red-brown; a grey triangular patch from cell before middle to 

 discocellulars where it extends from upper angle of cell to vein 1, 

 a fuscous point on its lower edge near its base just below median 

 nervure and a discoidal Lunule. Hind wing very ample, yellowish 

 In-own, the disk rather redder In-own and with some long hairs on 

 upperside in the cell. 



