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HYPARGOPTEEA; LITHOSIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
craushayi. 
rufeola. 
funeralis. 
xanthopa. 
apical is. 
clegans. 
mashonen- 
sis. 
restricta. 
flavibasis. 
heterogyna. 
marwitzia- 
na. 
bifasciata. 
aurantisqua- 
mata. 
costiplicata. 
nigrocihata. 
M. craushayi Hmps. looks almost exactly like a Lithosia lurideola (Vol. II, pi. 12 i); forewing lead- 
coloured grey with a yellow costal-marginal stripe; hindwing orange, somewhat brighter and broader than 
in lurideola. Natal; Basuto Land. 
47. Genus: JHypargoptera Hmps. 
With a proboscis, pectinate antennae, the pectinations tapering off towards the apex. Forewing very 
small, but hindwing very broad, at the base cpiickly widening, but behind the middle decreasing again, stripe¬ 
shaped, with a short almost vertical distal margin. Only 1 species. 
H. rufeola Hmps. Head and thorax brown, abdomen orange. Forewing of a bright yellowish red- 
brown, in the <$ with an obsolete darker postmedian transverse band which is angular in the centre. Hindwing 
orange. Expanse of wings: 32 mm. South Africa. 
48. Genus: Lil liosia F. 
This genus which is nowadays mostly denominated Eilema (Hubner 1827) or llema (Hampsox 1900) 
and the members of which were described among more than 20 different genera, has been largely treated upon 
in Vol. II, p. 65 to 69, and in Vol. X, p. 204 to 211. The almost 300 forms hitherto known are widely distri¬ 
buted over the Old World, and many species number among the most common lepidoptera. In America the 
genus has not yet been discovered; it is replaced there by the very common Agylla. As to further particulars, 
cf. Vol. II and X 1. c. From Ethiopian Africa about 120 forms are known, some of which, however, are 
doubtfully inserted here. 
L. funeralis Kenr. (9 k). Proximal parts of wings as far as a little beyond the centre dark hemochrome, 
distally, with a slight orange-red tinge, distal parts of the wings bluish-black. Anterior body and end of ab¬ 
domen red. Madagascar. •— The species has the colouring of the South-East Australian Scoliacma bicolora 
(Vol. X, pi. 14 b). 
L. xanthopa Holl. (9 k). Forewing golden yellow, with a broad black distal margin, hindwing paler, 
the margin very narrowly darker. West Africa. — According to Strand, it hardly belongs to this genus, but 
shows the neuration of a Lexis. 
L. apicalis Wkr. (Vol. X, pi. 15 b) is quite similar to xanthopa, honey-coloured, forewing with a blackish- 
brown distal margin of 2 mm width, but with yellow fringes. Shape of forewing more stripe-like. West Africa, 
also in the Sunda Islands in India. As to the larva, cf. Vol. X, p. 208. 
L. elegans Btlr. (9 k). In the foiewing the basal and costal-marginal portions are orange, the distal- 
marginal and hindmarginal portions dark brown. Hindwing orange with a brown distal third. On the Atbara 
and in Abyssinia. -— In the form mashonensis Strd. the brown colour in the forewing only reaches to the centre 
of the hind-margin, and the dark marginal band of the hindwing is narrower. — restricta Hmps., from Rhodesia, 
in the $ exhibits the brown colour of the forewing still more reduced and the dark margin of the hindwing 
scarcely linear; in the ^ the forewing is quite golden yellow except a dark spot at the proximal angle. 
L. flavibasis Hmps. (= nitens Rothsch.) (9 k). Almost the whole upper surface of the wings is dark 
brown. In the forewing only a narrow costal-marginal stripe and in the hindwing the basal third are honey- 
coloured. British East Africa. 
L. heterogyna Hmps. (91). from Rhodesia, is similar to flavibasis; the yellow costal stripe of the fore¬ 
wing is narrow, hindwing also at the base intensely suffused with dark brown, in the disc rather somewhat 
lighter. 
L. marwitziana Strd. is like heterogyna, but the hindwing shows yellow longitudinal patches along 
the costal margin and from the base to beyond the centre. German East Africa. 
L. bifasciata Hmps. (9 k) is much smaller than the preceding ones (expanse only 22 mm). It almost 
looks like a small L. replana (Vol. X, pi. 15 b). Forewing dark brown with 2 honey-coloured longitudinal patches. 
Hindwing orange with a broad blackish-brown marginal band. Cape Colony. 
L. aurantisquamata Hmps. is one of the largest species, almost the size of a palearctic Oeonistis quadra. 
Forewing whitish with a yellow discal area which shows rough orange scales. Base of costal margin blackish. 
Hindwing whitish with a large, orange-scalecl postmedian spot extending from the costal margin to the lower 
cell-angle. British East Africa. 
L. costiplicata Hmps. is only half the size of the preceding species (expanse 24 mm). Forewing ochreous 
tinted with red-brown, the marginal area lighter. Hindwing pale yellow. By its colouring it recalls a small 
distigmata (10 a) lacking the black dots. Recognisable by a costal-marginal lobe of the $ extending to beyond 
the centre. Cameroon. 
L. nigrociliata Aur. (9 1) is quite orange; 3 distinct dark dots above the centre of the hind-margin, 
in the centre of the costa, and behind the cell-end. Hindwing with a large, brown apical spot extending almost 
to the centre of the margin. Madagascar. 
