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Discussion. The individual variation found in the short series available for 

 study is noteworthy. One form of colour-pattern is shown in Plate 8, fig. 303 : 

 this is similar to that in the lectotype. In the Nigerian male collected in Lagos by 

 Boorman, the whole of the distal third of the fore wing is densely irrorate with black. 

 In one male examined from Cameroun the short lateral branch on each posterior 

 process of the eighth abdominal sternum is absent. 



A single male from Gabon collected by Rougeot (in the Museum national 

 d'Histoire naturelle, Entomologie agricole tropicale, Paris) belongs to this species 

 but possesses small genitalic differences in the male, and when further material is 

 available may prove to represent a new subspecies. 



Figs. 128-130, Gonoreta contracta, genitalia. 128, <$ ; 129, o* eighth abdominal sternite 



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