yo A. WATSON 



below from Gambia bears no further details concerning locality. A female from 

 Fernando Po, in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History), probably 

 represents this subspecies, but more material is needed to confirm this. 



Material examined. Type. Holotype <$, S. Nigeria, Oshogbo (Hiscock) ; 

 Drepanidae genitalia slide No. 1096 ; in the British Museum (Natural History). 



Paratypes. British Museum (Natural History). Nigeria : 2 $, Lagos ; 1 <J 

 [no further data] ; 1 ^ 1 ?, Old Calabar ; 1 $, Oruga. Ghana : 1 $ near Anamabu, 

 30. hi. 1940, reared from larva on Pavetta sp. (Box). Ivory Coast : 1 $, [no further 

 data] ; 1 $, Bingerville, 1915 (Melon). Senegal : 1 $, Casamance (Lagraize). 

 Gambia : 1 $, (Moloney). Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Entomologie 

 agricole tropicale, Paris. Ivory Coast : 1 <$, 2 $, Bingerville, on Trichalysia and 

 Pavetta (Rubiacae), 6-27. x. 1956 (Daguatiguy). Institut d'Enseignement et de 

 Recherches tropicales, Bondy. Ivory Coast : 1 $, Adiopodoume, 13. xi. 1953 (Real). 



GONORETA Warren, 1902 

 (Text-figs. 109-148 ; Pis. 7, 8, figs. 295-304 ; Map 4) 



Gonoreta Warren, 1902 : 488. Type-species, by monotypy, Gonoyeta ansorgei Warren, 1902. 



Gonoreta Warren ; Gaede, in Seitz, 1927 b : 290. 



Gonoreta Warren ; Gaede, 1931 : 41. 



Lomadontophana Bryk, 1913 : 8. Type-species, by original designation, Lomadontophana 



subtilis Bryk, 191 3. syn. n. 

 Lomadontophana Bryk ; Gaede, in Seitz, 1927 b : 290. 

 Lomadontophana Bryk ; Gaede, 1931 : 51. 



Description. <$, $. Proboscis vestigial ; palp minute, not extending as far as labrum ; 

 labrum smooth, not globose ; antenna unilamellate from base to tip. 



Meso- and metathoracic legs with one pair of very short apical spurs. Outer margin of fore 

 wing produced at Cu la or immediately anterior to this vein. Outer margin of hind wing entire ; 

 anal margin straight or slightly convex proximally. Venation of fore wing as in Text-fig. 109. 

 Sc + R 1 in the hind wing approximated to Rs for short distance distal to end of cell. Upper 

 surface of both wings greyish, reddish or yellowish brown ; both wings usually speckled or striate 

 with darker brown. Fore wings usually with dark medial shade ; double subterminal fascia, 

 dentate and sometimes edged with greyish white distally, most strongly marked posteriorly ; 

 discocellular spot and less distinct posterior cell-spot brown or greyish white. Hind wing 

 sometimes with dark medial shade ; cell-spots as on fore wing, but invariably greyish white. 

 Under surface of both wings red, orange or yellow, speckled or striate with a darker colour, 

 usually paler at apical part of costa on fore wing and proximally on hind wing ; only marking is a 

 blackish postmedial fascia on fore wing, with trace of same fascia on anterior part of hind wing. 

 (See Plates 7 and 8.) 



Colour of abdomen as for corresponding adjacent surface of hind wing. 



o* genitalia (see labelled text-fig. no). Diaphragma with ovoid, sclerotized, medial plate. 

 Gnathus well developed. Uncus bifurcate ; lateral lobe present. Valve pouch-like, sclerotized 

 proximally, membranous distally. Aedeagus without cornutus ; with lateral process in some 

 species. Eighth sternum strongly sclerotized ; one or more acuminate posterior processes on 

 either side ; usually asymmetric. 



$ genitalia as in text-figures. Signum absent in opacifinis sp. n. and bispina sp. n. 



Taxonomic History. The genus Gonoreta was erected in 1902 by Warren for a 

 new species ansorgei, (Warren, 1902). Bryk (1913) subsequently described a new 

 genus Lomadontophana, without reference to Gonoreta. Bryk included two new 



