REVISION OF AFRICAN SPECIES OF CLEORA 75 



heavily marked discal spots and in reduction of snuff brown bands in posterior half of fore wing 

 and on hind wing (PL io, fig. 307). Differs in underside in reduction of bister suffusion in proxi- 

 mal half of each wing (PI. 10, fig. 308). 



$. Genitalia (Text-fig. 98). Sterigma almost circular with a sclerotized disc at each side ; a 

 short, thorn-like projection from lamella postvaginalis medio-posteriorly ; colliculum tapered a 

 little anteriorly ; anterior third of bursa copulatrix membranous and a little dilate, remainder 

 cylindrical, ribbed and sclerotized. 



Measurements. 6* 34~39 mm - '• ? 37~46 mm. 



In a series of nearly 100 males and 40 females, seven males and five females are 

 comparable with tulbaghata ab. flavipleta, having a broad band of warm buff to 

 ochraceous tawny proximad of the antemedial fascia on the fore wing and similar 

 bands distad of the postmedial fascia on each wing (PL 10, fig. 320) ; two males and 

 one female are comparable with tulbaghata ab. fumata, in which the medial area of 

 the fore wing and the hind wing, proximad of the postmedial fascia, are suffused 

 with fuscous ; one male combines the characters of both forms. 



Tentatively placed after tulbaghata and munda on account of the similar range of 

 variation in pattern shown by the moths ; the form of the female genitalia suggests 

 an affinity with the following species, toulgoetae, but otherwise appears an isolated 

 species. 



In the male genitalia the form of the gnathus, juxta and sacculus and the pro- 

 portions of the two cornuti and in the female genitalia the development of the 

 sterigma are diagnostic. 



Distribution (Map 5). Sierra Leone ; Guinea ; Ghana ; Nigeria ; Cameroun ; 

 Gabon ; W. Congo (Leopold ville) ; Principe I. ; Sao Thome" I. 



Material examined. Holotype g. Guinea : Monte Nimba, 30.viii.1951 (M. 

 Lamotte & R. Roy) in Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. 



St. Principe : 1500-2000 ft., iv-v.1928 (T. A. Barns), 10 <$, 5 $. Sierra Leone : 

 1 $. Ivory Coast : Bingerville, v,vi,viii-xii (G. Melon), 38 <$, 18 $ ; Agboville, 

 1-8.vi.1915 (G. Melon), 1 $. Ghana : A'koon, 4.1.1919 (G. Harrison), i<$ ; Ashanti 

 {Mrs. D. Houston), 2 $ ; Ashanti, Goaso (G. H. Gibbs), 1 $ ; Bibianaha [Bibiani] 

 70 miles N.W. of Dimkwa, 700 ft., ii,v (H. G. F. Spurrell), 2 <$, 2 $ ; Coomassie 

 [Kumasi] (H. Whiteside), 3 <$, 2 $ ; Ashanti, Juaso (G. H. Gibbs), 1 <$ ; Abossi {Dr. 

 J. J. Wilson), 1 $ ; Tarkwa, 3 <$, 2 $ ; Wassaw distr., 45 miles inland from Sekondi, 



1 $ ; Sekondi, xii.1921 (N. E. Bell), 1 $. Nigeria : Lagos, 2 <$ ; Ilesha {Capt. 

 L. E. H. Humfrey), 1 $, 1 $ ; Warri, iv-viii.1897 {Dr. Roth), 4 <$, 2 $ ; Degama 

 [Degema] {Dr. Ansorge), 1 <$ ; Ikom, 18. v. 1930 {E. Haig), 1 $ ; Old Calabar, 2 <$, 



2 $. Cameroun : Johann-Albrechts Hohe, 1898 (L. Conradt), 7 (J, 2 $ ; Lolodorf, 

 1894-1895 (L. Conradt), 6 £ ; Bitje, Ja River, x, wet season {G. L. Bates), 1 $ ; 

 Epulan [Efulen], 2.1V.1926 {G. Schwab), 1 <$. Gabon : Ogowe, 1890-1894 (L. 

 Gazengel), 2 $ ; Lastourville {P. C. Rougeot), 3 $ ; Tchibanga, iv,xi {P. C. Rougeot), 

 6 (J. Congo (Leopoldville) : Kitobola, 191 1 {Rovere), 2 <$ ; Equateur, Bokote, 

 19.1.1926 {R. P. Hidstaert), 1 $ and Tshuapa, Flandria, 18. x. 1947 (Rev. P. Hulstaert), 

 1 $, in Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. 



