REVISION OF AFRICAN SPECIES OF CLEORA 



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wing and the basal area of the hind wing are almost immaculate, except for the 

 discal spots. In the male (fig. 153) the remainder of the wings are densely irrorate 

 with drab ; in the female (fig. 159) the corresponding dark areas are cinnamon 

 brown. Fig. 155 represents a form in which the wings are densely suffused with 

 fuscous, except along the costa of the fore wing and in the posterior half of the 

 hind wing. Fig. 156 represents a form with a dark tilleul buff ground colour to 

 the wings, intensified terminad ; the medial area in this form, posterior of the 

 subcostal vein, is intensely fuscous black. Fig. 163 represents a female in which 

 there is a broad fascia of warm buff instead of the postmedial fascia on each wing 

 and a similar fascia on the fore wing proximad of the antemedial fascia. 



The species evidently represents acaciaria in the Comoro Islands, as betularia and 

 flavivenata do in continental Africa. So far no representative of this species-group 

 has been found in Madagascar. 



Figs. 7-9. C. iransversaria genitalia. 7, $ ; 8, aedeagus ; 9, $. 



