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MACROSIA; LOBILEMA; LOPHILEMA; SOZUSA; LEPISTA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
nephelistis. C. nephelistis Hmps. is somewhat smaller (expanse 30 mm); forewing more dark yolk-coloured with 
a black base of the costa; behind the cell a brownish shadow extends downward to the hind-margin. Hindwing 
quite pale yellow. British East Africa. Only the $ is known. 
50. Genus: Macrosia Hmps. 
Quite similar to the preceding genus and likewise hardly separable from Lithosia ; distinguished from 
the Gtenosia by the presence of an areola. Two species are known from Eastern and Central Africa. 
chalybeate. M. chalybeata Hmps. (lid) has the size of Lith. similipuncta (10k) and is also similarly coloured, 
but the light yellow costal stripe reaches the apex, where it passes over into the yellow stripe of the fringe. 
Hindwing more golden yellow, particularly at the margins. Mashona Land. 
fumeola. M. fumeola Wkr. {= natalica Mschlr.) is quite similar, forewing brownish yellow, at the base and 
in the hindmarginal area very slightly tinged with grey. Costal margin and hind-margin orange; hindwing 
yellow. German East Africa to Cape Colony. 
51. Genus: l^obileiiia Aur. 
Recognisable by the costal margin of the d being reverted to a broad lobe which extends so far that 
it covers yet a part of the cell of the forewing. The only species was discovered in 1910 on the Kilimanjaro. 
conspersa. L. conspersa Aur. Expanse 40 mm. Forewing dark reddish-yellow, with thick black scales, scantily 
strewn; from behind the cell-end to behind the centre of the hind-margin the dark atoms form a nebulous oblique 
streak. Hindwing yellow. From Kibonota. 
52. Genus: l^oplillema Aur. 
Very near to the Macrosia, but the forewing without an areola. Only 2 species are known from Africa. 
brunneo- L. brunneotincta Rothsch. (lid) is described as Lithosia ( Ilema). Forewing dark, hindwing lighter 
iincta. red-brown; fringe of a bright ochreous yellow. Cape Colony. 
polioplaga. L. polioplaga Hmps. (= sordida Aur.) is somewhat smaller (expanse 44 mm). Hindwing much broader, 
the margin rounder; recognisable by a large grey triangle in the bright red-brown forewing, the base of which 
is situate below the costal margin and the vertex of which almost touches the hind-margin behind its centre. 
In this grey triangle also the small cell-end spot is enclosed. East Africa. 
53. Genus: Sozusa Wallgr. 
Quite a number of genuine Lithosia have been described in this genus. The only certain species which 
is reckoned hereto to-day, has no areola, but the 1st subcostal branch anastomoses with the costal vein. The 
shows an oval scent-spot in the centre of the upper wall of the cell on the hindwing. S. heterocera Wkr. and 
despecta Wkr. are indefinable insects from Cape Colony; the types do not exist any more. 
scutellaia. S. scutellata Wallgr. (= dorsoglauca Wkr.) in the shape and size resembles Lith. creatoplaga (10 g); 
forewing pale dark brown with a bluish reflection towards the base; at the base of the hindmargin and along 
the costal margin an orange band. 32 to 36 mm. Cape Colony to Natal. 
54. Genus: Lepista Wallgr. (Dyphlebia Fldr.). 
This small genus neither has an areola on the forewing. The 1st subcostal branch anastomoses with 
the costal vein, but soon leaves it again and terminates into the costal margin before its last quarter; the 2nd 
branch terminates soon behind it, the stalk of the 3rd to 5th rises with the upper radial from the upper cell- 
angle. Vein 5 is absent in the forewing and hindwing. — By an erroneous statement one species, L. pandula, 
has been figured in the Indian Part; another species, arabica, occurs near the frontier of the Indian Region. 
The Madagassic sanguinolenta Mab. probably scarcely belongs to this genus. 
arabica. L. arabica Rbl. (11 e) distantly recalls the colouring of a Lith. lurideola or complana (Vol. II, pi. 12); 
the greyish-brown forewing with yellow longitudinal stripes on the costal margin and hind-margin, which, 
however, do not reach the distal margin. Hindwing yellow, at the apex broadly shaded with brown. Arabia. 
