REVISION OF AFRICAN SPECIES OF CLEORA 103 



ventrally ; scobination extending posteriorly to subscaphium for distance equal to one-half of its 

 width ; juxta slightly rugose at apex ; projection of sacculus tapered, spatulate, scobinate and 

 slightly setose, equal in length to uncus ; vesica with two tapered cornuti fused at base, one 

 three-tenths and one two-fifths as long as aedeagus, each scobinate on one surface in apical half. 



Female patterned similarly to male on upper surface of wings but dark irroration sparse ; 

 cinnamon drab bands reduced and broken ; transverse fasciae very slender, bister to fuscous, 

 lacking tawny tinge of male (PI. 9, figs. 303, 304). 



$. Genitalia (Text-fig. 140). Sterigma ovate ; lamella postvaginalis with a raised, tapered 

 lobe medio-posteriorly ; anterior fourth of bursa copulatrix membranous and ovate, remainder 

 cylindrical, ribbed and sclerotized and obtusely bowed. 



Measurements, o* 37-42 mm. ; $ 38-44 mm. 



Specimens from E. Congo (Leopoldville) are rather more bister in general tone 

 than the pinker brown examples from Kampala and other localities in Western 

 Uganda, but in other respects the series shows little variation. 



A short series of five specimens from the Ivory Coast is provisionally associated 

 with scobina, though excluded from the type series. The specimens are rather 

 smaller and a little more heavily marked, but agree structurally with scobina in the 

 genitalia of both sexes. Closely allied to pavlitzkiae and to lima, differing externally 

 from the former in the pattern of the under surface of the wings and from both in 

 the warmer pinker or redder brown tone of the markings of the upper surface of the 

 wings. In the male genitalia the form of the scobinate medial plate of the gnathus 

 and the form of the sacculus and in the female genitalia the form of the sterigma are 

 diagnostic. 



Biology. Adults have been reared from larvae found on Cupressus lusitanica 

 and Eucalyptus torelliana in Western Uganda. 



Distribution (Map 5). Uganda ; Burundi ; Congo (Leopoldville) ; Ivory Coast. 



Holotype <$. Uganda : Kampala, 22.viii.1932 (H. Hargreaves), genitalia slide 

 Geometridae No. 2291. 



Paratypes : Uganda : Kampala, 7.VH.1927 (H. Hargreaves), 1 $ ; ibid., pupated 

 13.V.1931, emerged 22. v. 1931, 1 $ ; ibid., 11.vii.1932, 1 <$ ; Kampala, 29.vii.1925, 



1 cJ ; Kampala, 26. xi. 1929 (G. H. E. Hopkins), i<J ; Entebbe, i.iv.1900 (Capt. H. B. 

 Rattray), 1 $ ; Bwamba, ii-iii.1957 (R. Carcasson), 1 $ ; Mpanga Forest, 22. xi. i960, 

 ex Cupressus lusitanica (W. K. Brown), 1 $ ; Mpanga Forest, 21.vii.1962, ex 

 Eucalyptus torelliana (W '. K.Brown), 1 $. Burundi : Usumbura, 900 m., 8.VU.1961 

 (Dr. M. Fontaine), 1 $, in Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. [Congo (Leopoldville)] 

 Belgian Congo : Ruwenzori, 18-20.V.1950 (H. B. D. Kettlewell), 3 <$, 2 $ ; Takalu, 

 W. of Lake Albert, iv, 1 <$ ; E. Ituri Valley, 30 miles south of Irumu, 3000 ft., 

 vii.1924 (T. A. Bams), 1 $ ; Upper Uelle distr., Dungu, iv,v,vii, 3 <$ ; Upper Uelle 

 distr., Sabuni, v, 1 $, all in British Museum (Natural History) ; Kibali-Ituri, Nioka, 

 10.vii.1953 (/. Hecq), 1 $ ; Haut-Uele, Moto, 1921, 2 $ ; Rutschuru, 2.L1928 (Ch. 

 Seydel), 1 <$ ; N. Lac Kivu, Rwankwi, 4.ix.i947 (/. V. Leroy), 1 $ ; ibid., iv.1948, 



2 <J ; ibid., v.1948, 1 $ ; Lulua Kapanga, xii.1932 (F. G. Overlaet), 1 <§, all in Musee 

 Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. 



Other material. Ivory Coast : Bingerville, 1915 (G. Melou), 1 $, 1 $ ; ibid., 

 1-7.vi.1915, 1 $ ; ibid., n-14.viii.1915, 1 <J, 1 $. 



