REVISION OF AFRICAN SPECIES OF CLEORA 51 



Closely related to the preceding species, raphis ; externally well characterized 

 by the very clear white ground colour of the wings, especially prominent at apex 

 and mid-termen of fore wing and by the sharply marked bister pattern ; dis- 

 tinguished structurally by the shorter, slightly serrate process arising from the 

 sacculus and by the cornuti on the vesica in the male and by the degree of 

 sclerotization of the sterigma, colliculum and bursa copulatrix in the female. 



Distribution (Map 3). Nigeria. 



Holotype <$. [Nigeria] : Warri, vi.1897 (Dr. Roth), genitalia slide Geometridae 

 No. 2217. 



Paratypes : data as holotype, 1 $ ; Agberi, Niger, io.v.1901 (Ansorge), 1 $. 



Cleora panarista sp. n. 



(Text-figs. 63-65 ; PI. 6, figs. 249-252 ; Map 3) 



<J. Vestiture white, irrorate with smoke grey and black ; patagia banded with black ; 

 abdominal crest on first segment immaculate, second and third segments black dorsaily. Wings 

 white, irrorate with smoke grey and black and, in some examples, suffused with cartridge buff 

 proximad of postmedial fasciae ; transverse fasciae and lateral streaks in discal area black, 

 as illustrated ; antemedial fascia toothed distad in submedial fold, medial fascia toothed 

 proximad on vein A\ (PI. 6, fig. 249). Underside white, patterned with fuscous black (PI. 6, 

 fig. 250). 



o*. Genitalia (Text-figs. 64, 65). Minutely serrate medial plate of gnathus just subequal 

 to greatest width of cucullus ; very coarsely scobinate area on valve medio-ventrally ; arm of 

 sacculus smooth, tapered and arcuate, a little longer than greatest width of valve ; vesica with 

 three cornuti, one rod-like and one-half as long as aedeagus, one one-fifth as long as aedeagus 

 and tipped with one long and several shorter spines and one one-fourth as long as aedeagus, 

 arcuate and sharply tapered. 



$. (PI. 6, figs. 251, 252). Similar to male externally. 



$. Genitalia (Text-fig. 63). Lamella antevaginalis funnel-shaped ; lamella postvaginalis 

 sclerotized with concentric, semicircular ridges medially ; colliculum evenly sclerotized, rather 

 broader than long ; posterior two-thirds of bursa copulatrix sclerotized posteriorly and ribbed, 

 the ribbing extending weakly into the anterior third which is quite membranous. 



Measurements. <J 40-45 mm. ; $ 49 mm. 



A species strikingly distinct in colour and pattern. Related closely to both 

 raphis and aculeata ; distinguished structurally by the coarsely scobinate area on 

 the valve, the arcuate, tapered process on the sacculus and the ornamentation of the 

 vesica in the male and by the structure of the sterigma in the female. 



The specimens from Malawi are browner than the other material examined ; the 

 smoke grey of the type is nearer cinnamon brown and the black pattern of the type 

 is bister. The difference may be geographical but is more probably due to the 

 considerably greater age of the specimens. 



Distribution (Map 3). S.E. Congo (Leopoldville) ; Rhodesia ; Tanzania ; 

 Malawi. 



Holotype <J. S. Rhodesia : Vumba Mts., ii.1956, genitalia slide Geometridae 

 No. 5224. 



