REVISION OF AFRICAN SPECIES OF CLEORA 105 



$. Vestiture white, lightly irrorate with bister ; patagia edged with bister. Wings white ; 

 fore wing with a slender snuff brown band proximad of antemedial fascia ; similar band distad 

 of postmedial fascia on each wing, that on the fore wing broadening to subterminal at costa and 

 failing at inner margin, that on the hind wing failing at costa ; remainder of wing very lightly 

 irrorate and patterned with bister (PI. 13, fig. 367). Underside of wings white, patterned with 

 bister (PI. 13, fig. 368). 



$. Genitalia (Text-fig. 143). Sterigma with large, clearly defined ostium bursae ; colliculum 

 twice as long as broad with a short projection medio-posteriorly ; anterior fourth of bursa 

 copulatnx membranous ; remainder of bursa cylindrical, ribbed, sclerotized and scobinate on 

 inner surface ; posterior margin of seventh sternite sclerotized and shallowly concave medially. 



The scobinate and spatulate projection from the sacculus in the male genitalia 

 and the structure of the sterigma in the female genitalia suggest an affinity with 

 scobina and lima. From these species radula may be distinguished in the male 

 genitalia by the less extensive scobination of the gnathus and by the dense scobin- 

 ation and form of the larger of the two cornuti ; in the female genitalia the large, 

 clearly defined ostium bursae in the sterigma serves to separate radula from scobina ; 

 the female of lima is not yet known. 



Distribution (Map 7). Guinea ; Ghana ; Nigeria ; Fernando Po ; Cameroun ; 

 Angola ; Congo (Leopoldville) ; Uganda ; Kenya. 



Cleora radula radula ssp. n. 



(Pi. 13, figs. 365-369 ; Ma P 7) 



c?. Vestiture drab, irrorate with bister ; patagia edged with bister. Wings tilleul buff, 

 densely irrorate with snuff brown and fuscous ; sub-basal fascia on fore wing and a band distad 

 of postmedial fascia on each wing snuff brown ; cubital veins and other veins distad of post- 

 medial fasciae streaked with light buff ; other transverse fasciae and discal spots fuscous (PI. 13, 

 fig. 365). Under surface tilleul buff near discal spots, remainder of wings suffused and patterned 

 with fuscous (PI. 13, fig. 366). 



$. (PI. 13, figs. 367, 368). See under description of species. 



Measurements, o* 38-44 mm. ; $ 34-44 mm. 



Fifteen of the 43 male examples are darker than the type, bister replacing snuff 

 brown and fuscous black replacing fuscous ; in such specimens the transverse 

 fasciae in the distal third of each wing are edged with a sparse white irroration. In 

 six other males the fore wing is suffused with light buff between the submedial fold 

 and vein Ai, from base to subterminal fascia, and the bands distad of the post- 

 medial fascia on each wing, snuff brown in the type, are similarly suffused ; in these 

 examples the hind wing is suffused with light buff especially distad of the postmedial 

 fascia (PI. 13, fig. 369). The darker male examples are externally similar to 

 derogaria, but have a more sharply defined pattern ; the genitalia are, however, 

 quite distinct. 



Eleven males from Angola, apparently intermediate between typical radula and 

 the following subspecies, are provisionally associated with the nominate series, but 

 excluded from the type series ; the ground colour of the wings is paler, clearly 

 visible distad of the discal spot on the fore wing and the dark irroration is less dense. 



Distribution (Map 7). Equatorial forest of Gabon and Congo (Leopoldville) ; 

 Angola. 



