REVISION OF AFRICAN SPECIES OF CLEORA 



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The wings are only sparsely scaled with the white ground colour, giving them a 

 pearly, hyaline appearance, recalling, as the author noted in his original description, 

 species of the neotropical genus Iridopsis ; this quality and the presence of cinnamon 

 brown irroration in the preterminal area of the discal fold on the fore wing give the 

 species a distinctive appearance. The structure of the valve indicates a close 

 affinity with the acaciaria species-group ; the detail of the sacculus in the male and 

 the form of the sterigma and bursa copulatrix in the female genitalia are diagnostic. 



Distribution (Map 1). Central and Western Congo (Leopoldville). 



Material examined. Holotype $ : [Congo (Leopoldville)] : Kisantu, 1929 

 (R. P. J. Van Wing), in Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. 



Paratype <J : [Congo (Leopoldville)] : Lusambo, Kassai, 12.ix.1919, in British 

 Museum (Natural History). 



Figs. 22-24. C. cancer genitalia. 22, $ ; 23, aedeagus ; 24, ?. 



