LITHOSIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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L. marginata Guer. (9 1) is a large species; orange, forewing with 3 blackish dots, similar to the preceding marginala. 
species and with a bright red costal-marginal stripe. Fringes in the apical parts of both wings grey. Sometimes 
the black dots on the forewing are found to be connected by darker streaks. Madagascar. 
L. erythropleura Mab. (9 1) is very similar to marginata, but all the wings are shorter and broader; erythropleu- 
below the centre of the cell on the fore wing there is another black dot. All the dots are larger in the $. In ra- 
this species the apical fringes of both wings are not grey, but orange. Madagascar. 
L. mabillei Btlr. (= marginata Saalm. p. p.) (10 a). Wings more elongate than in erythropleura mabillei. 
and marginata ; the 4 dots on the forewing are similarly placed as in erythropleura, partly with a metallic green 
reflection; colouring paler yellow. Madagascar. 
L. inornafa Kenr. (9 1) is much smaller, the 4 black dots arranged as in mabillei. Forewing deeper inomata. 
orange. Madagascar. 
L. argentea Btlr. (10 a) is silvery white; forewing with a black dot below the centre of the costal margin, argentea. 
below the bifurcation of the median, and mostly yet with a third dot behind the cell-end. Madagascar. 
L. trispilota Saalm. (10a) is likewise cpiite purely white; of three black dots on the forewing one is trispilota. 
situate below the centre of the costal margin, one above the hind-margin before its last third, and one before 
the centre of the distal margin. Madagascar. 
L. virgineola Hmps. (10 a) is cpiite snow-white, lustrous; in size (expanse 38 mm) between the two virgineola. 
preceding species. Forewing without black dots. Cape Colony. 
L. melanosticta Hmps. (10 b). Body deep honey-coloured, wings white, with a very feeble yellowish melanostic- 
tint. Forewing with one thick black dot each below the costa and above the centre of the hind-margin. West 1(1 ' 
Africa. 
L„ eningae Ploetz (10 b). Quite similar to melanosticta, but the forewing is more light yellow and eningae. 
somewhat narrower. The black dots similar as in melanosticta. ■— pia Strd. (= eningae Hmps.) (10 b) has dark via. 
yolk-coloured forewings. West-Africa. 
L. bipuncfa Hbn. (= colon Mschlr.) (Vol. II, pi. 12 h). Like the preceding ones, but the colour of the bipuncta. 
forewing is dull pale yellow. It occurs already in the southern most parts of Europe (Andalusia, SouthernTtaly), 
but not, as reported, in South India. Widely distributed in South Africa. 
L. distigmata Hmps. (10a) entirely resembles bipuncta - , of a brighter yolk-colour; the upper black distigmata. 
dot is somewhat farther below the costa. It represents bipuncta in East and West Africa. 
L. costimaculata Aur. (10 b) is as yellow as distigmata, but the upper dot is directly at the costal costimacu- 
margin, as in bipuncta. Kilima Ndjaro. " ' ' W c lata ' 
L. pallidicosta Mab. is light yellowish brown, the costal area basally whitish. A dark dot below' the pallidicosta. 
cell-end in the submedian area, another one behind the cell. Hindwing yellowish. Expanse 26 mm. Madagascar. 
L„ diplisticta B.-Bak. (10 b) is larger than pallidicosta, but the two dots of the forewing are, as in diplisticta. 
distigmata, below each other, not behind each other. From pia it is only separated by darker, more 
brownish-yellow forewings and the cpiite yolk-coloured body which is less marked with brown. West Africa. 
L. mesosticta Hmps. (10 b). Forewing dark red-brown; 2 black dots, one at the cell-end, one above mesosticta. 
the centre of the hind-margin. Hindwing brown, in the basal area lighter. Smaller than diplisticta. Nigeria. 
L. frinitas Strd. (= jacobsi Hmps.) (10 c). Forewing dark yellow, before the most distal third of trinitas. 
the costal margin a dark costal dot and two smaller ones below it at the cell-end, and in the submedian area. 
,Hindwing pale yellow'. West Africa; in Morocco it penetrates into the palearctic region. 
L. cribroides Kenr. (10 c). Forewing white, in the disc very feebly irrorated with brownish, with cribroides. 
numerous black comma-spots in, below and behind the cell, extending in a bow almost reaching to the distal 
margin from the centre of the costal margin to the centre of the hind-margin. Hindwing dark grey. Madagascar. 
L. kingdom Btlr. (10c) is the largest African Lithosia known. Forewing white; 1 black dot each in kingdom. 
and below the cell, and an S-like curved row of black dots before the marginal area; hindwing yellow with a 
blackish costa. Thorax dotted black. ■— ab. luteomarginata Strd. has the thorax, forewing, and the marginal luteomargi- 
half of the hindwing tinted ochreous, the tegulae and patagia margined with yellow. — ab. albicans Btlr. has . nata. 
the head, thorax, forewing and hindwing, except the hairing at the basal part and the proximal area, coloured " 
silvery white. Madagascar. 
L. sordida Btlr. (10 d) is also very large, but both the wings are dull yolk-coloured yellow irrorated sordida. 
with dark, particularly between the lighter veins. A transverse band of brown spots begins behind the centre 
of the costal margin and extends in a curve directed towards the distal margin to the hind-margin. Hindwing 
somewhat paler. — The form aspersa Btlr. (= aspera Hmps.) has the forewing less tinted brown, but strewn aspersa. 
with small blackish scales, and the hindwing darkened towards the margin. Madagascar. • — Hampson thinks 
