REVISION OF AFRICAN SPECIES OF CLEORA 67 



Cleora tulbaghata (Felder) comb. n. 



(Text-figs. 87-89 ; PI. 9, figs. 289-296, 301 ; Map 4) 



Boarmia tulbaghata Felder, 1875, pi. 125 : 5. 

 Chogada acaciaria sensu Warren, 1904 : 474. 

 Chogada acaciaria ab. flavipleta Warren, 1904 : 474. 

 Chogada acaciaria ab. fumata Warren, 1904 : 474. 

 Neocleora munda sensu Janse, 1932 : 267, text-fig. 100. 



o*. Genitalia (Text-figs. 87, 88). Medial plate of gnathus narrowly rounded at tip, which is 

 one-third as broad as cucullus ; sacculus moderately sclerotized with a short, membranous, 

 triangular apical projection at about two-thirds ventral margin of valve ; vesica with two 

 cornuti fused at base, one one-half as long as aedeagus, the apical fourth dilate, with one side 

 coarsely serrate and with ventral surface scobinate, the other one-fifth as long as aedeagus and 

 sharply tapered apicad. 



?. Genitalia (Text-fig. 89). Sclerotization of lamella postvaginalis extends posteriorly very 

 slenderly at each side of short medial plate ; colliculum one and one-third times as long as 

 broad, without sharply defined posterior margin ; anterior two-sevenths of bursa copulatrix 

 membranous, remainder sclerotized and ribbed with a shoulder-like projection at one side of 

 posterior margin. 



Measurements. <J 33 _ 49 mm - '• ? 35 _ 49 mm - 



A species variable in colour and pattern. In the commonest form the ground 

 colour of the male is white, irrorate with drab and fuscous ; the transverse fasciae 

 are fuscous black and the veins are interruptedly light buff distad of the postmedial 

 fasciae (PI. 9, fig. 289) ; the underside of the wings is white, patterned with fuscous 

 (PI. 9, fig. 290). In this form the female is similarly patterned, but the irroration, 

 which is sparse, and the transverse fasciae are bister (PI. 9, fig. 291). 



The holotype (PI. 9, fig. 296) is white, very lightly suffused with ochraceous and 

 patterned with fuscous. In marking it remains unique, but is closely approached 

 by a recurrent form (PI. 9. fig. 295) in which the antemedial fascia of the fore wing 

 and the postmedial fascia on each wing are broadly fuscous, the former edged 

 proximally, the latter edged distally with snuff brown. 



Another recurrent form, ab. flavipleta Warren (PI. 9, fig. 293), has the area 

 proximad of the antemedial fascia on the fore wing and broad bands distad of the 

 postmedial fascia on each wing ochraceous buff to ochraceous orange. 



In ab. fumata Warren (PI. 9, fig. 294) the medial area of the fore wing and the 

 area proximad of the postmedial fascia on the hind wing are densely irrorate with 

 fuscous. 



A completely black form (PI. 9, fig. 301) occurs in part of the Fish Hoek Valley in 

 Cape Province. It is referred to by Dr. H. B. D. Kettlewell (1957 : 9, pi. 5), who 

 found it resting on the fire-blackened trunks of a species of Acacia. In a subsequent 

 personal communication Dr. Kettlewell writes : " It is one of the few examples I 

 know of a southern hemisphere Lepidopteron having a clear-cut melanic form, nor 

 do I know of it anywhere else except in the very local area of the Fish Hoek Valley. 

 In this locality, the species seems to depend on an introduced Australian shrub, 

 Rooikrans [Acacia cy clops A. Cunn.] — a sort of fire-resistant myrtle. The Valley is 

 regularly burned out by the coloureds who lived there and the tree trunks were 

 completely blackened everywhere. The insects sat on these trunks, where the 



