REVISION OF AFRICAN SPECIES OF CLEORA 



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the shape of the sacculus, the scobinate arms of the gnathus and the cornuti on the 

 vesica and in the female genitalia the form of the sterigma are diagnostic. 



Distribution (Map 3). Ivory Coast ; Ghana ; Nigeria ; Cameroun ; Central 

 African Republic ; Congo (Leopoldville) ; Kenya. 



Holotype <$. Ivory Coast : Bingerville, 1-5.viii.1915 (G. Melon), genitalia 

 slide Geometridae No. 5255. 



Paratypes : Ivory Coast : Bingerville, 25.v-3.vi.1g15 (G. Melon), 1 <$ ; ibid., 

 11. vi, 1 <J ; ibid., i-i4.vii, 2 $ ; ibid., 1— 5.viii, 1 9- ; ibid., 1-3. ix, 1 $. [Ghana] 

 Gold Coast : Ashanti, Goaso (G. N. Gibbs), 1 <$. Nigeria : Mamfe, ii.1958, 1 <$ 

 in National Museum of Rhodesia. [Cameroun] : Afriq. Occid., Station Kamerun, 

 Johann-Albrechts Hohe, 1898 (L. Conradt), 1 <$. Angola : Quicolungo, 120 km. 

 N. of Lucala, 800 m., iv.1936 (R. Braun), 1 $ ; Fazenda Congulu, Amboim district, 



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Figs. 51-53. C. lacrymata genitalia. 51, $ ; 52, aedeagus ; 53, $. 



