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There is considerable individual variation in coloration in fenestrata. The specimen illustrated 

 in Plate 10, fig. 311 shows one of the more striking colour varieties of the nominate subspecies : 

 fore wing reddish brown proximal to the bright lemon-yellow, oblique, post-medial fascia, but 

 greenish yellow distal to this fascia ; posterior subterminal marking dark reddish brown. 



Discussion. As mentioned in an earlier paper (Watson, 1957) part of the range 

 of the subspecies divisa apparently lies within that of the nominate subspecies, but 

 as there is no evidence of sympatry at any one locality I have continued to treat 

 divisa as a subspecies of fenestrata. However, a re-appraisal of the characters 

 separating the subspecies, fenestrata, divisa, and goniata, has led to the conclusion 

 that goniata, described by me as a subspecies of fenestrata, should be treated as a 

 separate species (see page 101). 



Distribution (Map 5). The species ranges from Guinea across tropical Africa 

 as far east as Uganda. Some new material of the nominate subspecies and of 

 divisa which has been examined since the last review of the species (Watson, 1957) 

 is listed under the appropriate subspecies headings. 



Spidia fenestrata fenestrata Butler 

 (Text-figs. 154-156 ; PL 10, fig. 311 ; Map 5) 



Diagnosis, <$. The nominate subspecies is separable from divisa probably only by the 

 genitalia (Text-figs. 154-156). The shape of the eighth abdominal sternum and the processes 

 of the vinculum anterior to the valves are particularly characteristic. 



$. As for male. Genitalia with heavily sclerotised eighth segment, deeply sulcate medially ; 

 bursa copulatrix with pair of spinose, invaginate signa. 



Measurements. A.P.R. : q\ 18 ; $. 8. Wing : <$. 20-0. 17-5-220 mm. (20) ; 

 $. 23-0, 22-5-24-0 mm. (4). 



Distribution (Map 5). Known from Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory 

 Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroun and Angola. 



Material examined. Types. Holotype 9 of fenestrata Butler, Niger, Old 

 Calabar ; in the British Museum (Natural History). Holotype $ [not £ as originally 

 stated] of fenestriculata Gaede, Nigeria, Opobo (Schultze) ; in the Zoologisches 

 Museum, Berlin. Holotype <$ of rubrisecta Warren, Nigeria, Warri, ix.97 {Roth) ; 

 in the British Museum (Natural History). 



Other material. In addition to the material listed in a previous paper (Watson, 

 1957) six more specimens have been discovered : Institut d' Ensiegnement et de 

 Recherches tropicales, Bondy. Ivory Coast : 1 <$, Adiopodoume, 8. i. 1957 (Real). 

 Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Entomologie agricoles tropicales, Paris. 

 Guinea : 1 $, Seredou, 5.XL1959 (Pujol). Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. Liberia : 

 2 $, Harbel, 13.xii.1955, 14.xii.1956 (Fox). Cameroun : 1 <$, Batanga, 24.xi.1910 

 (Good) ; 1 (J, Efulen (Weber). 



