A REVISION OF THE ETHIOPIAN DREPANIDAE (LE PIDOPTERA) i>g 



Paratypes. Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. N. Madagascar : i <$, 

 Montagne d'Ambre, Les Roussettes, 1,000 m., 5.XU.1958 (Viette). E. Madagascar : 

 1 <$, Sambava. Reserve nationale XII, Andasy II, 1,550 m., v. 1959 (Soga) ; 1 <$, 

 Moromanga, Ankasoka 1,130 m., 21.x. 1957 (Griveaud) ; 2 ^, Ankasoka, Route 

 Lakato, 1,100 m., 1,130 m., 2.xii.i95o (Griveaud), 2-10. i. 1959 (Viette) ; 14 J, env. 

 de Perinet, foret d'Analamazoatra, 910 m., 24.xi.-25.xii.1954, 15. i. 1955 (Viette). 

 British Museum (Natural History). E. Madagascar : 1 <?, Perinet, iii.1935 

 (Olsoufieff). 



Crocinis licina sp. n. 



(Text-figs. 213-215 ; PI. 13, fig. 323) 



Description, q*- Palp, front of head and narrow band bordering posterior margin of eyes 

 reddish brown (holotype) or scarlet. Vertex of head reddish brown, each scale with white apex. 

 Upper surface of antennal shaft buff (dark brown at base in Perinet paratype). 



Thorax as for spicata. Fore legs as for spicata, outer surface of femur and tarsus reddish 

 brown ; (remaining legs damaged, coloration probably as for spicata). 



Ground-colour of upper surface of both wings very pale, slightly yellowish brown, lightly 

 speckled with greyish brown in holotype, more heavily speckled in paratypes (see discussion). 

 Costa reddish brown (holotype) or scarlet basally. Colour-pattern of upper surface as in Plate 

 13, fig. 323 ; trace of sub-basal fascia and spot near base of cell ; weakly marked antemedial 

 fascia, white in holotype, dark brown or dark brown and white in paratypes ; discocellular spot 

 white, edged with yellowish brown in holotype, entirely yellowish brown in paratypes ; posterior 

 cell-spot yellowish brown ; oblique postmedial fascia either very pale yellowish brown, but white 

 near apex of wing (holotype and one paratype), or entirely white (remaining paratype) edged 

 proximally with greyish brown and distally with yellowish brown ; fringe reddish brown ; 

 circular hyaline patch distal to end of cell between Cu la and Cu lb ; smaller hyaline patch 

 immediately posterior to latter between Cu lb and \A only on left fore wing of holotype. Upper 

 surface of hind wing with very dark brown discocellular spot and posterior cell-spot ; weakly 

 marked, dentate, whitish sub-basal fascia ; oblique antemedial fascia same colour as, and 

 continuous with, postmedial fascia of fore wing ; fringe reddish brown. Under surface of fore 

 wings pale reddish buff, but more yellowish near costa, lightly speckled with dark brown in 

 holotype and one paratype, heavily speckled in remaining paratype ; trace of postmedial fascia. 

 Under surface of hind wing reddish buff distally, pale buff proximally ; dark brown cell-spots as 

 on upper surface ; trace of postmedial fascia anteriorly, approximately parallel to outer margin. 



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



o* genitalia as in Text-figs. 213-215. Most anterior of more heavily sclerotized processes of 

 vinculum hood-like apically ; side of aedeagus opposite point of entry of ductus seminalis almost 

 straight ; posterior processes of eighth abdominal sternum as in Text-fig. 214 in all three 

 specimens examined. Eighth abdominal tergum as for tetrathyra (see Text-fig. 217). 



9- Not known (but see generic description). 



Measurements. A.P.R. : <J. 12. Wing : <£. 16-5, 15-0-18-0 mm. (3). 



Discussion. This species appears to be indistinguishable from spicata externally, 

 but the shape and relative sizes of all four pairs of vincular processes of the male 

 genitalia are diagnostic. The shape of the uncus, aedeagus and the eighth sternal 

 processes also differentiate the two species. 



Some aspects of the individual variation in coloration have been mentioned in the 

 description. Most striking is the variation in the ground-colour of the upper surface 

 of the wings which is basically pale yellowish brown. In the holotype there is a 



