A REVISION OF THE ETHIOPIAN DREPANIDAE (LEPIDOPTERA) 75 



Material examined. British Museum {Natural History). Tanganyika : i <$, 

 Usambara, Nguelo (Rolle) ; 3 <$, Usambara, Amani, xii.1956 (Verdcourt) ; 1 <$, 

 Bukoba, 3.1X.1921 {Miller). Nyasaland : 1 <j>, Limbe, ix-x.1926 {Barlow). 

 Congo : 1 <J, 1 $ Elisabethville, 24.iii.1955, 2.VL1956 {Seydel). Cameroun : 1 <$, 

 xi {Schwab) ; 1 <$, 1 $, Lolodorf, 1894-95 {Condradt) ; 1 $ {Rutherford). Angola : 

 1 <£, Amboim district, Fazenda Congulu, 7-800 m., 7-11.iv.1934 {Jordan). Coryndon 

 Museum, Nairobi. Tanganyika : 4^, Usambara Mts., Amani, ii.1953 (Pinhey). 

 Congo : 1 <$, Loilo R., Ikela, iv.1959 {Carcasson). National Museum S. Rhodesia. 

 Tanganyika : Usambaras, Amani, iv.1955. Kenya : 1 £ Malaba forest, vi.1957 

 {Howard). Musee Royal de I'Afrique centrale, Tervuren. Congo : 1 $, Eala, 

 viii.1936 {Ghesquiere) ; 3 <$, Kivu, Nyamunyunye (Mulungu), 2.xii.i955, 11,14^.1956 

 {Hecq) ; 4 $, Uele, Paulis, i.iv.1957, 15, 19. vi. 1958, i.vii.1959 {Fontaine) ; 1 $, 

 Kasai, Luluaburg, 5.VL1953 {Fontaine). 



Gonoreta subtilis reali ssp. n. 



(Text-figs. 114-117 ; Map 4) 



Diagnosis. q", $. Characterized by the male genitalia (Text-figs. 114-116) and female 

 genitalia (Text-fig. 117). No external diagnostic characters have been found in the material 

 examined. 



Measurements. Wing : q. 20-0, 19-5— 20-5 mm. (2). 



Distribution (Map 4). Known only from the Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone, 

 but may also occur in moist regions West of Ghana. 



Material examined. Type. Holotype^, Ivory Coast, near Nimba, 25.iii.1955 

 {Real) ; Drepanidae genitalia slide No. 1117 ; in the Institut d'Enseignement et de 

 Recherches tropicales, Bondy. 



Paratypes. Institut d'Enseignement et de Recherches tropicales, Bondy. Ivory 

 Coast : 1 $, Adiopodoume - 19.viii.1954 {Real). British Museum {Natural History). 

 Ivory Coast : 1 <$, Adiopodoume {Real). Sierra Leone : 1 $, Freetown, Mt. 

 Aureol, ii.1956 {Phipps). 



Gonoreta albiapex sp. n. 



(Text-figs. 1 18-120 ; PI. 8, fig. 302 ; Map 4) 



Description. q\ Palp greyish brown. Head greyish brown except for dark brown patch 

 anterior to base of each antenna. Antennal shaft and dorsoposterior margin of head dull buff. 



Thorax pale brownish grey dorsally, the scales white-tipped with dark band just before tip. 

 Ventral surface of thorax dull buff except for dark brown band at sides of, and below, eyes. 

 Front surface of fore legs proximal to tarsus and distal margin of each tarsal segment dark brown ; 

 colour of rest of legs doubtful but probably dull buff. 



Wing shape and colour-pattern as in Plate 8, fig. 302. Wing coloration similar to gonioptera 

 except for well marked, white, distal edge to apical part of subterminal fascia. Ground-colour of 



