64 A. WATSON 



Dorsal surface of thorax pale buff or pale greyish buff, palest anteriorly. Ventral surface pale 

 yellow. 



Shape of wings as in Plate 6, fig. 294 ; hind wing produced at M 3 . Ground-colour of upper 

 surface of both wings buff (holotype), reddish buff, greyish buff or purplish buff with brown 

 maculations and transverse striations. Upper surface of fore wing with antemedial fascia, edged 

 distally by large brown maculations ; small dark discocellular spot ; large brown maculation 

 distal to end of cell ; grey, lunulate postmedial fascia, edged distally with white posteriorly ; 

 pale buff, lunulate subterminal fascia, weakly marked anteriorly, bordered distally and proxi- 

 mally by broad brown band at tornus. Antemedial fascia of hind wing weakly marked ; dark 

 discocellular spot larger than on fore wing ; postmedial fascia slightly sinuous, strongly marked, 

 dark brown edged distally with white ; subterminal fascia dentate, pale buff or white edged 

 proximally with broad pale brown band. Under surface of fore wing yellow with pale purplish 

 brown area at apex, at tornus and along distal margin of dark brown, straight postmedial fascia ; 

 lightly transversely striate in most specimens (including holotype) ; cell-spot as for upper 

 surface ; trace of whitish subterminal fascia at tornus. Under surface of hind wing pale pinkish 

 buff (holotype) or pale reddish buff ; striations as for fore wing ; cell-spot larger than on fore 

 wing ; postmedial fascia faintly marked, brown or grey (holotype) ; trace of orange or pale 

 reddish brown subterminal fascia. 



o* genitalia : valve with one, two or three strongly sclerotized pre-apical processes ; lateral 

 arms of gnathus massive ; vesica of aedeagus without cornuti ; posterior margin of both eighth 

 tergite and sternite concave or emarginate medially. 



$ genitalia : post-ostial segment strongly modified and sclerotized dorsally. 



Measurements. A.P.R. : q\ 23 ; $. 17. 



Discussion. The angulate hind wing and the distinctive colour-pattern at once 

 separate natalensis from the rest of the genus. The male genitalia are equally 

 diagnostic. 



The name carnea Saalmuller, listed by Gaede (1931 : 50) as a junior synonym of 

 natalensis, has been recalled from synonymy and the species transferred to Epicamp- 

 poptera Bryk. Also recalled from synonymy is geometroides Holland which is now 

 applied to a newly recognized subspecies of natalensis. C. lytaea Druce placed by 

 Gaede (1927 b : 288) in the synonymy of natalensis is in fact synonymous with 

 Negera confusa Walker. 



There is some individual variation in the wing coloration but this is less evident 

 than in most species of Negera. 



Distribution (Map 3). This species has a particularly wide distribution. The 

 nominate subspecies is known chiefly from the coastal forest-savanna of Natal and 

 Cape Province. The subspecies geometroides ranges across the Congo Basin, and 

 is known from the forest-savanna of Uganda, the montane vegetation of Arusha, 

 Tanganyika, and at least the northern part of Northern Rhodesia. The third 

 subspecies, parviluma, occurs in the rain-forests of West Africa but is also known 

 from the mangroves of Senegal and from one Gambian specimen (without further 

 locality data). A female from Fernando Po, in the collection of the British 

 Museum (Natural History), probably also represents the species natalensis, but 

 additional material is needed before this can be confirmed. 



Negera natalensis natalensis (Felder) 

 (Text-figs. 99-102 ; Map 3) 

 Diagnosis. Separable from the other two subspecies apparently only by the genitalia (Text- 

 figs. 99-102). In the male the three sclerotized valve processes are distinctive. The post- 



