io6 D. S. FLETCHER 



Holotype <$. [Congo (Leopoldville)] : Lusambo, 29.vi.1949 {Dr. M. Fontaine), 

 in Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. 



Paratypes : Gabon : Lastourville, i.1959 (P. Rougeot), 1 $, in British Museum 

 (Natural History). [Congo (Leopoldville)] : Leopoldville, Binza, 29. ix. 1954 {Dr. 

 M. Fontaine), 1 $ ; Stanleyville, 9.VL1948 {Dr. Faniel), 1 $ ; Sankuru, Djeka, 

 17.xii.1952 {Dr. M. Fontaine), 1 $ ; Sankuru, Komi, vi.1939 (/. Ghesquiere) , 1 <$ ; 

 Sankuru, Lusambo, 7. v. 1950 {Dr. M. Fontaine), 1 $ ; ibid., 14. vi. 1949, 1 £ ; 17.VL 

 1949, 1 (J, 1 $ ; 20.vi.1949, 1 (J ; 2.vii.i949, i<J ; 14.vii.1950, i<J ; 18.vii.1950, i<J ; 

 23.vii.1950, 1 (J, 1 ? ; 2.viii.i95o, 1 $ ; 6.viii.i95o, i<J ; 7.viii.i95o, 2<$ ; 8.viii.i95o, 

 1 $ ; 9.viii.i95o, 1 <J ; 14.viii.1950, 1 $ ; 31.viii.1950, 1 $ ; ix.1950, 1 ^ ; 5,6,8, 

 14. ix., each 1 <$ ; x.1950, 1 <$ ; 11. x. 1950, 1 <$ ; Sankuru, Katako-Kombe, 16. hi. 

 1952 {Dr. M.Fontaine), 1$ ; ibid., 19. hi. 1952, i£ ; 6JX.1952, ij ; 15.ix.1952, 1^ ; 

 8.X.1952, 1 (J ; 14. xh. 1952, 1 (J ; Uele, Paulis, 19. i. 1956 {Dr. M. Fontaine), 1 $ ; 

 ibid., 2.U.1956, 1 ? ; 4JV.1956, 1 £ ; 8JV.1956, 1 ^ ; 12.iv.1956, 1 ^ ; 4.^.1956, 

 icJ ; 28. xi. 1952, i(J ; i.xh.1956, 1 ^ ; ibid., 28. xh. 1955, 1 $ ; Ituri, Nduye-Makara, 

 x.1921 {A. Pilette), 1 <$, all in Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale ; Kondolola 

 District, Lindi Valley, 1600-1700 ft., v.1921 {T. A. Barns), 2 $ in British Museum 

 (Natural History). 



Other material. Angola : Quicolungo, 120 km. N. of Lucala, 800 m., iv.1936 

 {R. Braun), 11 <$. 



Cleora radula leptopasta ssp. n. 



(PL 13, hgs. 370, 371 ; Map 7) 



tj. Differs from nominate subspecies in colour. Ground colour of wings white ; antemedial 

 fascia on fore wing, medial and postmedial fasciae, terminal interneural spots and outline of 

 discal spots on each wing bister ; remaining transverse fasciae snuff brown ; light irroration 

 snuff brown and bister. (PI. 13, fig. 370). Under surface of wings white, suffused and patterned 

 with bister (PI. 13, fig. 371). 



Measurements, o* 38-43 mm. 



Externally closely similar to dargei with which it occurs and only reliably 

 determined by reference to the genitalia. 

 Distribution (Map 7). Ghana ; Nigeria. 



Holotype <$. [Nigeria] : Lagos, genitalia slide Geometridae No. 5469. 



Paratypes : [Ghana] Gold Coast : Coomassie [Kumasi] {H. Whiteside), 2 £ ; 

 Nsuaem, i.1922 {N. E. Bell), 1 <$. Nigeria : Lagos, 1 <$ ; Ilesha {L. E. H. Humfrey), 

 1 (J ; S. Nigeria, 1 $. 



Specimens from the localities listed below are associated provisionally with subsp. 

 leptopasta, but excluded from the type series. The males from Fernando Po and 

 from Lolodorf and Johann-Albrechts Hohe in Cameroun are more densely irrorate 

 with bister ; no male from Guinea is available for study. 



