24 D. S. FLETCHER 



Holotype $. Cape Town, Kirstenbosch, 5-29. xii. 1954 (A. J. T. Janse), in 

 Transvaal Museum. 



Paratypes : 13 <$, 5 $ with same data as holotype ; Cape Province, Camps Bay, 

 17. xii. 1955 (A. J. Duke), 1 <$, all in Transvaal Museum ; Cape Town, iii.1912 {Lord 

 Gladstone), i<$ ; ibid., v.1912, i<^ ; Cape Province, Harkerville, 9.iii.ig2i (Dr. H. G. 

 Breijer), 1 <£ ; Knysna, Wilderness, 20.x-8.xi. 1952, at M.V. light (H. B. D. 

 Kettlewell), 6 $, all in British Museum (Natural History) ; Knysna, Sourflats, 

 22-24.xi.1954 (L. Vari), 1 <$ ; Knysna, Garden of Eden, 16-20.1.1955 (A. J. T. 

 Janse), 5 $ ; Groot River Pass, 21-23.L1955 (A. J. T. Janse), 1 $ ; Port St. Johns, 

 10-22.ii.1955 (A. J. T. Janse), 3 £, all in Transvaal Museum. 



Cleora melanochorda (Fletcher) comb. n. 

 (Text-figs. 16-18 ; PI. 3, figs. 180-182, 184-186 ; Map 1) 



Neocleora melanochorda Fletcher, 1958 : 137, figs. 42, 76, 216. 



o". Fore wing : medial area white except along costa and distad of broad, black, medial 

 fascia posterior of vein M3 ; remainder of wing cinnamon drab, lightly irrorate with fuscous and, 

 distad of postmedial fascia, white ; ante- and postmedial fasciae black, sharply defined ; sub- 

 terminal fascia fuscous, represented only by spots between costa and vein Sc$ and between vein 

 M\ and M3. Hind wing, proximad of medial fascia, white, lightly irrorate with fuscous at base, 

 otherwise similar to fore wing (PI. 3, fig. 180). Underside of wings tilleul buff ; costa of fore wing 

 and distal third of each wing varyingly suffused with cinnamon drab and with fuscous at apex of 

 fore wing ; discal and terminal interneural spots fuscous (PI. 3, fig. 184). 



o*. Genitalia (Text-figs. 16, 17). Arm of sacculus aculeate, parallel with ventral margin of 

 valve and extending to cucullus ; a small setose, digitate process at base of arm ; vesica with a 

 stout cornutus shallowly bifurcate at apex, rather longer than one-half length of aedeagus. 



$. Not known from type locality. 



$. Genitalia (Text-fig. 18), based on a specimen from Kenya. Sterigma wrinkled laterally ; 

 two parallel, longitudinal ribs along lamella antevaginalis ; posterior two-thirds of bursa 

 copulatrix ribbed, posterior third lightly sclerotized ; anterior third membranous. 



Measurements. Holotype q* 50 mm. ; Kenya <$ 46 mm. ; $ 48 mm. 



The colour and pattern of the holotype is striking, but probably represents only 

 one form of a polymorphic species having a range of variation comparable with that 

 of betularia. The two specimens from Kenya (PI. 3, figs. 181, 182, 185, 186) have 

 the ground colour of the wings light drab ; the transverse fasciae are black and the 

 postmedial fascia on each wing is broadly edged distally with bister ; the genitalia 

 of the male are identical with those of the holotype from Uganda ; those of the 

 female are described above. 



Related to betularia and flavivenata and representing the most northerly 

 penetration so far known of the species-group. The shape of the arm of the sacculus 

 and of the cornutus in the male genitalia and the configuration of the sterigma in 

 the female genitalia are diagnostic. 



Distribution (Map 1) . Uganda (upper limits of montane rain forest on Ruwenzori) ; 

 Kenya. 



