92 D. S. FLETCHER 



Cleora pavlitzkiae (Fletcher) comb. n. 

 (Text-figs. 123-135 ; PI. 12, figs. 349-362 ; Map 6) 



Neocleora pavlitzkiae Fletcher, 1958a : 139, pi. 2 : 8, 10, pi. 4 : 26-28. 



o*. Underside of wings white, patterned with fuscous ; postmedial fascia on fore wing usually 

 well defined from two-thirds costa to lower angle of cell ; costa of fore wing tinged with light 

 buff ; specimens in which the upper surface is densely irrorate with fuscous black have the 

 white area of the underside mottled. 



Upperside of wings variable in colour and pattern in both sexes. 



o*. Genitalia. Uncus evenly stout, apex rounded with a minute thorn-like tip ; scobinate 

 medial plate of gnathus varies geographically in shape and extent of scobination ; apex of juxta 

 broadly Y-shaped, sometimes minutely spiculate or rugose ; sacculus with short apical process 

 projecting at about one-half ventral margin of valve, the shape and extent of the projection 

 varying geographically ; vesica with two stout, tapered cornuti fused at base, varying slightly 

 in proportions, but the larger scobinate on ventral surface from one-fourth to seven-eighths. 



$. Underside of wings white, very sparsely patterned with fuscous ; in examples where the 

 upperside is comparable with tulbaghata ab. fumata the fuscous patterning of the underside is 

 similar to that of the male. 



$. Genitalia. Sterigma and colliculum vary geographically ; anterior third of bursa 

 copulatrix globular and membranous, sometimes with one or two slight bulbous projections 

 from opposite sides ; remainder of bursa cylindrical, ribbed and sclerotized. 



The species may be distinguished externally by the mottled pattern of the 

 underside of the wings in the male and structurally in the male genitalia by the 

 larger of the two cornuti being scobinate on the ventral surface for the greater part 

 of its apical half, only the apex remaining smooth, and in the female genitalia by 

 the proportions and form of the bursa copulatrix. 



Subspecies lamella, occurring up to an elevation of about 7000 ft. in Kenya and 

 Tanzania, may have had a wider distribution in Africa ; a single male from Musake at 

 6350 ft. on Mt. Cameroon has male genitalia closely similar to those of lamella, 

 differing only in the development of the scobinate medial plate of the gnathus and 

 probably now represents a distinct subspecies ; a male from the Zomba Plateau in 

 Malawi and a male from Tsumeb in the northern part of S.W. Africa are similar. 

 The genitalia of the female from Tsumeb are apparently identical with those of the 

 nominate subspecies. 



Three males and a female from between 3700 and 4500 ft. in Central and Western 

 Uganda (Kampala, Entebbe and Kilembe) and in E. Congo (Leopold ville), 

 Mutwanga, are intermediate between subsp. lamella and subsp. saltuensis ; further 

 material will probably shew them to represent a distinct subspecies. 



Distribution (Map 6). S.W. Africa ; Rhodesia ; Malawi ; Tanzania ; Kenya ; 

 Ethiopia ; Uganda ; Burundi ; Rwanda ; E. Congo (Leopold ville) ; Cameroun. 



Cleora pavlitzkiae pavlitzkiae (Fletcher) 



(Text-figs. 123-125 ; PI. 12, figs. 349~354 ', Map 6) 



6* $. In the nominate subspecies the ground colour of the upper surface of the wings is white, 

 usually weakly irrorate but very rarely with a shade darker than bister (PI. 12, figs. 349-352) ; 

 forms occur that are comparable with tulbaghata ab. flavipleta and a variation of the flavipleta 

 form has the medial area of the fore wing and the proximal half of the hind wing almost immacu- 



