LITHACODIA. By M. Gaede. 149 
inner margin. Exterior line black, uniformly bent behind the cell. A blackish snbmarginal line. ^ 25 jnm. 
Gold Coast. 
46. Genus: liitliacoflia Hbn. 
Proboscis normal, palpi reaching the frons; antennae of ciliated. Thorax with a small double tuft 
in the middle, with a spread out tuft behind. Abdominal tufts large on the 3rd and 4th segments, two smaller 
ones before them. Neuration normal in both wings. Type: bellicula Hbn. from North America. Numerous 
other species in North America and in the Indo-Australian region. 
1. Veins 3 + 4 of hind wing stalked. 
L. picata Btlr. (14 h). Thorax white, abdomen slightly brownish. Forewing white. Interior line black, plcala. 
slightly notched, oblique. Behind it a bronze brown band from which a spur behind the cell extends uyjwai ds 
to vein 6. This spur is bordered outside by the blackish exterior line. One intense black dot each in the main 
band in and below the cell, 2 finer ones at the cross-vein. Marginal area bronze brown. Submarginal line pale, 
nndulate. A black spot below the apex, rusty red above it. Hindwing greyish brown. 15—18 mm. East Africa, 
Madagascar, Mauritius, as far as India. 
L. blandula Ouen. (= i-graecum Mab., perta Scliaus.) (14 i). Body and wings coloured as in picata. In- blandula. 
terior line as in picata, but only small dark dots before it at the costal margin, no large spot. The browm band 
behind the interior line at the inner margin somewhat broader. Two black dots at the cell-angle. A black reni- 
form spot behind the cell is bordered outside by a short white line. Large browm spots centred blackish at 
the margin below the apex and beloW' the middle, bordered outside by the wdiite sidjinarginal line. Hindwing 
whitish, greyish-brown at the margin. 15—18 mm. West, South, and East Africa, Abyssinia, Madagascar, 
Reunion. 
L. caffristis Hmps. (= vialis Hmps.). Body browmish ochreous. Forewing ochreous, darker at the cafMstis. 
costal margin. Marginal area oliliquely defined from the apex to before the middle of the inner margin, darker 
in the interior part before the exterior line wEich is white, obliquely inwards from the costal margin, then bent 
more inwards in the submedian fold, a dark spot below it at vein 4. An ochreous elliptical spot behind it at 
the margin and one above the anal angle. Hindwing wdiitish ochreous, brow'ner at the apex. $ 22 mm. Cape 
Colony. 
L. mesomela Hmps. (14 i). Body wdiitish grey. Forewdng wdiitish red-brown at the base, at the costal mesorneta. 
margin and in the cell. Interior line incurved in the cell, double, filled white below it. Interior half of the median 
area blackish-browm, a black dot in the cell. Reniform macula elliptical, white above, blackish-brow n beneath. 
Exterior line double, filled with white, excurved below the costal margin, then forming the edge of the reni¬ 
form macula, then bent inw ards. Margin browmish white. Submai’ginal line white, edged black inside, dentate, 
concave behind the cell. A black oblique diffuse spot at the apex. Hindwing reddish browui. 18—20 mm. East 
Africa. The specimen figured from the Cameroons probably belongs to this species. 
L. flavofimbria Saalm. (14 i). Thorax yellow^, abdomen brownish. Eorewing yellowish wdiite at the jlavofim- 
base, bordered by the purely wdiite interior line. Exterior line yiroceeding from a broad wdiite spot at the costal 
margin, slightly excnrved behind the cell, thickened again at the inner margin. The rest of the wdng behind 
the interior line is dark red-browm. Reniform inacida narrow, edged white, strongly bent outwmrds belowq 
almost touching the exterior line. Hindwing dark browm wdth orange fringe. ^ 20 mm. Madagascar. 
L. pyrophora Hmps. Thorax red-browm, abdomen brown. Forewing pale red-brown in the basal area, pyrophora. 
bordered by an oblique dark interior line. The rest of the wdng dark browm. The exterior line begins at a semi- 
elliptical wdiite spot at the costal margin, beside which there is a fiery red s]iot outside, bordered by a wdiite 
costal-marginal stripe. Exterior line fine, wdiite, edged black, a black spot behind it below the fiery red spot. 
A dark spot at the ajiex and traces of a pale submarginal line. Hindwing pale brow'nish ochreous, fringe yellow'. 
$ 18 mm. Central Africa. 
L. varicolora Hpi/ps. (14 i). Body pale greyish-brown. Forewdng red-brown at the base and inner margin, raricolora. 
Median area pinkish brow'ii, margin greenish. Interior line wdiite, notched, crossed in the submedian fold by 
a fine black streak. Ring-macula and reniform macula finely edged wdth olive brown, the latter elliptical, with 
a black dot below. Traces of an incurved line from the lower cell-angle to the inner margin. Exterior line 
double, wddely excurved below the costal margin, obliquely inwards from vein 4, filled w'ith w'hite. Submarginal 
line indistinct, formed of wdiite scales, undulate, thickly edged, dark inside. Hindwing whitish, brownish at 
the margin. — In medioirrorata Strd. the median area is dark browm, not pink, and the marginal area is not medioirro- 
green. South Africa. 20—22 mm. 
L. scapha Saalm. (14 i). Body red-browm. Eorewing lighter red-browm, spotted violettish browm. An scapha. 
oblique silvery luna in the submedian fold. Behind it the straight pale interior line obliquely inwards. Narrowly 
dark olive browm before it and below the luna. Exterior line edged wdiite inside, double, parallel to the interior 
line, dark red-browm. Marginal area lighter, deeply bent inwards behind the cell and in the submedian fold. 
Hindwing yellow', browm at the apex. 18 mm. Madagascar. 
