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Distribution (Map i). French Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory 

 Coast and Nigeria. 



Material examined. Type. I have selected the male from the pair of syntypes 

 in the British Museum (Natural History) as the LECTOTYPE. It bears the 

 following data : " Lagos, H. Strachan, 1904-7 : Metadrepana glauca type <$ 

 Hampson ; Drepanidae Genitalia slide No. 125 1 ". 



Paralectotype. $, Nigeria, Lagos (Strachan). 



Other material. British Museum (Natural History). Nigeria : 9^, 8 $, Ibadan 

 (Golding) ; 1$ (Golding) ; 1 <$, Lagos, xi.1955 (Boorman). Ivory Coast : 2(J, 



1 $, Adiopodoume, 29.viii, 15. xi. 1959 (Real). Sierra Leone: 2 <$, Njala, on 

 Coffea excelsior, 20. ix, 17.x. 1937 (Hargreaves). Institut d'Enseignement et de 

 Recherches tropicales, Bondy. Ivory Coast : 5 £, 1 $, Adiopodoume, 29. i, 3.ix.i954, 

 8. hi. 1956 (Real). Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Entomologie agricole tropicale, 

 Paris. Guinea : ioq*, 8$, S£r6dou, 3-21. vi. 1958, 30.x-7.xii. 1959 (Pujol, Gaye). 

 Ivory Coast : 3^, 4$, Bingerville (2$, 1$, U.V.), 20.viii-24.ix. 1962 (Pujol) ; 



2 0*1 Divo (1 ^ U.V.) 4-6. x. 1962 (Pujol). Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. Liberia : 

 2<$, Harbel, 12. v. 1955, 9.L1957 (Fox). 



Epicampoptera marantica (Tarns) 

 (Text-figs. 12-15 ; PL 2, fig. 275 ; Map 1) 



Metadrepana marantica Tarns, 1930 : 74. [Fig. <$ genitalia] 



Epicampoptera marantica (Tarns) ; Leroy, 1936 : 3. [Half-tone figs, egg, larva, adult <J.] 



Epicampoptera marantica (Tarns) ; Hering, 1934 b : 4°7- [Recalled from synonymy of strandi — 



see Discussion. First synonymy of ignorata.] 

 Epicampoptera marantica (Tarns) ; Pujol, i960 : 4. [Biological notes.] 

 Epicampoptera ignorata Hering, 1934 a : 4°3- 



Diagnosis, <J. Outer marginal process of fore wing particularly prominent, more so than in 

 most specimens of strandi (Plate 2, fig. 275). Postmedial fascia when present on upper surface 

 of hind wing darker than rest of wing, not paler as it is in strandi, andersoni, tamsi and ivoirensis. 



cJ genitalia (Text-figs. 12-14) : digitate uncus lobes and angulate valves characteristic ; 

 aedeagus with broad apical lips ; eighth sternum with slender asymmetric lateral processes and 

 conical medial process. 



$. Similar to male but outer marginal processes of both wings much smaller. 



$ genitalia (Text-fig. 15) : signum approximately triangular ; eighth segment strongly 

 sclerotized, strongly bilobed dorsally. 



Measurements. A.P.R. : £, $. 18. Wing : q*. 210, 17-5-23-0 mm. (16) ; $. 23-5, 

 20-0-27-0 mm. (15). 



Discussion. Distinguished from strandi by the dark postmedial fascia of the 

 hind wing, the slightly more strongly produced outer marginal processes of the fore 

 and hind wings, and by the distinctive male and female genitalia. Separated from 

 the remaining species of this species-group by the much more strongly developed 

 processes of the outer margin of the wings and by the genitalia. (The uncus can 

 usually be seen without dissection by brushing away the scales at the end of the 

 abdomen.) 



