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Species-group spicata 



Crocinis spicata sp. n. 



(Text-figs. 210-212 ; PI. 13, figs. 321, 322) 



Description, q*. Palp, front of head and narrow band at posterior margin of eyes scarlet 

 (holotype and most examples) or reddish brown. Vertex of head reddish brown, each scale 

 tipped with white. Upper surface of antennal shaft buff. 



Dorsal surface of thorax buff (holotype) or brown, speckled with white anteriorly. Ventral 

 surface of thorax buff. Front surface of trochanter, femur and tibia of each leg scarlet (holo- 

 type) or reddish brown ; front of tarsus grey-brown ; remaining surfaces buff ; fore legs most 

 strongly coloured. 



Ground colour of both wings buff (holotype) or one of several shades of light brown and grey, 

 variously speckled with brown (holotype) or black. Colour-pattern as in Plate 13, figs. 321, 322. 

 Upper surface of fore wing usually (including holotype) with faintly marked antemedial fascia ; 

 trace of spot near base of cell ; brown (holotype reddish brown) or black discocellular spot and 

 posterior cell-spot ; reddish brown (holotype), brown or yellow-brown postmedial fascia edged 

 proximally with white near apex ; apex of wing reddish brown (holotype), brownish buff, brown 

 or black proximal to postmedial fascia ; large, conspicuous, black patch at about two-thirds 

 costa in a few specimens (not holotype) ; circular hyaline patch distal to end of cell between 

 Cw la and Cu lb in five specimens (not holotype) ; second hyaline patch between Cu lb and iA in 

 one specimen (Plate 13, fig. 322) ; few specimens with diffuse, blackish sub-basal and subterminal 

 fascia, most prominent near anal margin (Plate 13, fig. 322) ; fringe buff (holotype), or shade of 

 brown darker than ground-colour. Upper surface of hind wing with cell-spots as on fore wing ; 

 well-marked antemedial fascia, similar in colour to postmedial fascia on fore wing ; trace of sub- 

 basal fascia ; broad, diffuse blackish postmedial and subterminal fascia in a few specimens (not 

 holotype) ; fringe reddish brown. Under surface of fore wing greyish orange (holotype) or 

 reddish grey ; costa scarlet, speckled with dark grey (holotype) or black ; weakly marked 

 postmedial fascia. Under surface of hind wing similar in colour to fore wing but paler and more 

 heavily speckled with dark grey or black ; cell-spots as for upper surface, otherwise without 

 pattern. 



Colour of dorsal surface of abdomen as for ground-colour of upper surface of wings ; ventral 

 surface of abdomen pale buff. 



o* genitalia as in Text-figs. 210-212. Some variation exists in the size of the eighth sternal 

 processes. Aedeagus sigmoid. Eighth abdominal tergite as for tetrathvra (see Text-fig. 217). 



$. Not known (but see generic description). 



Measurements. A.P.R. : <J. 12. Wing : $. 14-5, 130-17-0 mm. (18). 



Discussion. Although this species is apparently indistinguishable externally 

 from its close relative licina it is easily separated from it by the male genitalia, in 

 particular by the shape of the vincular processes but also by the uncus, aedeagus 

 and the usually shorter eighth sternal processes. 



The high degree of individual variation in the coloration of the upper surface of 

 the wings has been indicated in the description. Equally striking is the variation 

 in the marking of the fasciae, which may be either conspicuous or hardly discernible, 

 and the presence or absence of hyaline patches in the fore wing. 



Distribution. Known only from northern and eastern Madagascar. 



Material examined. Type. Holotype $, Madagascar Est, env. de Perinet, 

 foret d'Analamazoatra, 910 m., 19. ii. 1955 (Viette) ; Drepanidae genitalia slide No. 

 605 ; in the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. 



