108 P. E. S. WHALLEY 



Genitalia $ (PI. 58, figs 350, 351). Anal papillae short, ostium and first part of duct 

 sclerotized, duct and bursa without spines. 



Discussion. This species is almost certainly a complex of two or more subspecies. 

 Considerable variation in size was found in specimens from the same locality; 

 otherwise they were indistinguishable. Variation in pattern tends to lead to a 

 reduction in the amount of the dark reticulations and to an increase in the intensity 

 of the median mark on the hind margin of the fore wing (PI. II, fig. 49). Wing 

 venation is variable, usually R 3 + R 4 + i? 5 but in some specimens R 5 is free or 

 R 2 + R 3 + Ri and occasionally the partial fusion of R s with the other two veins has 

 given rise to a small areole in the fore wing. The male genitalia show little variation 

 in the specimens examined. In some specimens the juxta has a slightly toothed 

 edge, otherwise few differences could be found between the males. The ostium of 

 the female varies in both length and the amount of sclerotization and it is from these 

 characters that I suspect that some degree of subspeciation has occurred. However, 

 in the specimens examined no constant trend was found and no subspecies are 

 described at present. From all the other males in the genus this species can be 

 separated by the shape of the juxta, saccus and by the long process on the apex of the 

 aedeagus. 



Distribution. Map 37. Sierra Leone; Liberia; Ghana; Nigeria; Cameroon; 

 Gabon; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Angola. 



Material examined : 



Holotype $ (trijuncta) , Nigeria: Warri (Roth), iv.f1.8J97, BM slide no. 9993, in 

 BMNH. Holotype <$ (elephantinalis) , Cameroon: BM slide no. 9559, in ZMB. 



Sierra Leone: i <$, Bo, 25.x. 1959 (Taylor); 1 <$ (Frere); 1 <$ (no other data); 

 1 <J, vii.1895; 1 <J, Njala, vi.1932 (Hargreaves) ; Liberia: i £, Harbel, Marshall Terr., 

 31.xii.1956 (Fox), in CMP; Ghana: i <$, Nsaba, v. 1922 (Bell) ; 1 <$, Sekondi (Hamlyn) ; 

 Nigeria: 2 <J, Warri (Roth), iv.f1.8J97; 1 c>. U.C. Ibadan, vi.1958 (Sutton) ; 1 <J, Lagos 

 (Strachan); Cameroon: 9 $, 5 $, Efulen (Weber), six <J, four $ in CMP; 1^,1$, 

 Bitje, Ja River, 2000 ft, ix-xi.1932; 1 $, Bitje, in USNM; 1 <$, Lolodorf, xii.1913 

 (Good), in CMP; Gabon: i $, Belinga, 600 m, Camp Centrale, v. 1963 (Bemardi), 

 in MNHN; 1 <$, Makokou, Bords Ivindo, Rapides, Buwaka, v. 1963 (Bemardi), in 

 MNHN; Democratic Republic of the Congo: i <$, Eala, vii.1937 (Ghesquiere) , in 

 MRAC; 1 £, Sankuru, Dimbelenge, ii.1951 (Fontaine), in MRAC; 1 o*» Sankuru, 

 Dimbelenge, x.1950 (Fontaine), in MRAC; 1 $, Opala, Lomami R., Prov. Orientale 

 (Carcasson), iii.1959, in NMK; Angola: i $, Bihe; 2 <£, no data, in CMP (probably 

 Cameroon). 



The INOPS-Grovp 



This contains the next three species, which have R 2 + R 3 + R A joined near the cell 

 in the fore wing. All these species have white wings. The females of two of the 

 species are unknown. In E. inops, two colour phases are known (p. 109). 



Key to the INOPS-Grovp 



1 Hind margin of fore wing with black mark. Genitalia of male as in PI. 36, fig. 197 



pellucida (p. no) 



