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PUSIOLA; PUSIOLANIA; PHRYGANOPSIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
unipcctina- 
ta. 
celidana. 
unipuncta¬ 
na. 
flavicosta. 
occidcntalis. 
unipuncta¬ 
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plumosa. 
unipuncta. 
celt da. 
cinerella. 
straininea. 
squamosa. 
L. unipectinata Aur. Expanse 25 mm. Forewing yellowish red-brown, the basal half suffused with 
dark brown, the distal margin shaded with dark brown; from behind the cell-end to directly behind the centre 
of the hind-margin a dark nebulous stripe extends. Hindwing yellow. From the Kilimanjaro. 
60. Genus: l*usiola Wallgr. 
As to this genus, in which species with very different neurations were inserted, we refer to Vol. X, p. 214. 
Beside the Australian species mentioned there 2 African ones are known to-day, which, however, are very badly 
definable from the genus Phryganopsis. 
P. celidana Strd. (Ilf). Forewing dull yellowish-ochreous, the distal half somewhat darker; in the 
centre of the wing a minute, but distinct blackish dot. — unipunctana Strcl., though it is placed to the genus 
Phryganopsis, may only be a temporal form of it; somewhat smaller and slightly paler yellow. — Also Phrygan. 
unipuncta PLmps. (11 f) which, however, is palearctic is closely allied, but the small central dot of the forewing 
is removed somewhat farther towards the margin; whereas in Phryg. celida (Ilf) it is removed somewhat towards 
the base. 
P. flavicosta Wallgr. , from Cape Colony, has the size of unipuncta, but the body and wings are dark 
brown, the costa narrowly yellow, 
61. Genus: l*usiolania Strd. 
Neuration not different from Pusiola ; but the $ antennae have two rows of combs, the pectinations 
being alternately provided with longer and shorter cilia which are at the ends very feebly widened and obliquely 
stunted, terminating on one side into one minute coniform tooth each, whilst from the centre of the apex of 
each tooth a strong, curved, rather long black bristle arises; the ends of these bristles are straight and parallel. 
But 1 very small species. 
P. occidentals Strd. (11 f) is only as large as Phr. unipuncta ; the ground-colour of the forewing is 
dull yellowish greyish-brown, behind the centre of the wing 2 small black punctiform spots close above each 
other. Hindwing more yellow. According to one $ from Bibundi in Cameroon, taken in November. 
62. Genus: Phryganopsis Fldr. 
By the neuration this genus composed of about 30 purely Ethiopian forms (except one) might be included 
in the genus Lithosia which shows a very great variability in the neuration; it differs, however, from it in the 
stunted proboscis. 
Ph. unipunctana Strd. (11 f). The very small species exhibits dusty grey forewings very feebly tinted 
with yellowish, with a fine, distinct small central dot and dingy white hindwings. Forewing beneath greyish- 
blackish with yellowish margins. Cameroon. 
Ph. plumosa Mab. is similar to unipunctana, but its expanse about 1 to 2 mm larger, obove greyish- 
brown, with a small dark cell-end dot and a grey streak at the submedian; hindwing greyish, with a very feeble 
ochreous tinge. This species is so well characterized by very strongly developed antennal pinnae of the that 
it can hardly be justly placed in this genus. West and East Africa, and Madagascar. 
Ph. unipuncta Hmps. (11 f) we have already mentioned in the genus Pusiola, as being closely allied 
to P. celidana ; shape and marking almost exactly as in plumosa, but entirely coloured golden yellow and with 
different antennae. From Southern Algeria, and therefore yet palearctic. 
Ph. celida B.-Bak. (Ilf) likewise approximates Lithosia. Like an enlarged unipuncta, of a brighter 
golden yellow colour; also the dark central dot of the forewing is more distinct and a little more removed into 
the cell. West Africa. 
Ph. cinerella Wallgr. (= zelleri Wkr.) (11 f). Described as Lithosia, also placed to Pusiola. Yolk- 
coloured, the $ mostly with a more or less distinct discal dot of the forewing. Hindwing often at the margin 
somewhat more intensely irrorated with brownish. From Cape Colony and Natal to the Niger and Mashona 
Land. 
Ph. straminea Hmps. (11 g) is hardly larger, more straw-coloured, hindwing much paler yellow. East 
Africa. 
Ph. squamosa B.-Bak. ( 11 g) is stronger, the forewing more intensely strewn with brownish atoms, 
hindwing with a darker costal margin and hind-margin. Malanga in Portuguese West Africa, 
