166 P. E. S. WHALLEY 



Genitalia g (PI. 45, fig. 254). Median basal process on valve more slender than in other 

 species of Opula. Gnathus broad, equal in width to broadest part of juxta lobes. Valves 

 tapering. Manica minutely spined. 



$. Wing, 11*5-13 mm. Colour and pattern as male. Labial palps with third segment 1/2 

 length of second segment. 



Genitalia °. (PI. 66, figs 424-426). Very long signum, generally somewhat longitudinally 

 placed along bursa. 



Discussion. This species looks like a small pale-coloured specimen of 0. 

 impletalis, but in the series examined no intermediates in the size range of these two 

 species has been found. Generally the pattern of impletalis is more heavily marked 

 than perigrapha. 



Distribution. Map 63. Sierra Leone; Liberia; Ghana; Nigeria; Cameroon; 

 Gabon; Democratic Republic of the Congo. 



Material examined. 



LECTOTYPE <$, here designated, Ghana: Coomassie [Kumasi] (Whiteside), 

 1905-289, Rhodoneura perigrapha Hampson, type <$, BM slide no. 9614, in BMNH. 



Sierra Leone: i <$, Moyamba, iii.1903 (Cator); Liberia: i <$, Nimba, Grassfield, 

 ii.1968 (Forbes-Watson) ; Ghana: 3 <$, data as type (paralectotypes) ; Nigeria: i $, 

 Calabar, x.1960 (Markham), in NMK; 1 $, Degama, 3.1V. 1902 (Ansorge); 2 9, Warri, 

 v-vi.1897 (Roth), (syntypes of ab. complicata) ; 1 <$, Warri, Niger, C. Prot., vii. 

 1897 (Roth); Cameroon: i $, Bitje, iv-v.1913; 1 9, Bitje, Ja River, 1915; 1 $, 

 Efulen, v.1913 (Weber), in CMP; Gabon: i <£, Belinga, 600 m, Piste de Mwadhi, 

 iii.1963 (Bernardi), in MNHN; 1 $, Makokou, 500 m, Miss. Biolog., ii.1962 (Bernardi), 

 in MNHN; Democratic Republic of the Congo: Dima-Butola, x.1921 (Verlaine), 

 in MRAC; 1 S, Equateur, Flandria, vi.1931 (Hulstaert), in MRAC; 1 <$, 1 $, no 

 locality data in CMP. 



Opula spilotata (Warren) comb. n. 



(PI. 21, fig. in; PI. 44, fig. 252; PI. 66, figs 427-428) 



Rhodoneura spilotata Warren, 1898b : 222. 

 [Rhodoneura spilotata ab. complicata Warren; Warren, 1898b : 222, misidentification, specimen 



of, spilotata ab. complicata is actually O. perigrapha Hampson.] 

 Rhodoneura miosticta Hampson, 1906 : 120, syn. n. 

 Rhodoneura spilotata Warren; Dalle Torre, 1914 : 33. 

 Rhodoneura miosticta Hampson; Dalle Torre, 1914 : 26. 

 Rhodoneura miosticta Hampson; Gaede, 1917 : 364. 

 Rhodoneura spilotata Warren; Gaede, 191 7 : 365. 

 Rhodoneura miosticta Hampson; Gaede, 1929 : 492. 

 [Rhodoneura spilotata Warren ab. complicata Warren; Gaede, 1929 : 494, misidentification.] 



o*. Wing, IO-5-I5 mm. Vertex brown with white scales in centre produced in tuft between 

 base of antennae. Frons brown, not swollen. Antennae minutely ciliate. Labial palps with 

 third segment 1/2 length of second, upturned, reaching to or above vertex. Hind tibia with 

 outer spur of distal pair 1/2 length of inner spur. Inner spur of distal pair almost as long as 1st 

 tarsal segment of hind leg. Abdomen brown, median dark line on sternite, two lateral dark 

 lines on each side of tergum. Fore wing pattern as in PI. 21, fig. 111, brown with dark spots 

 on subterminal fascia, subapically. These spots are usually one large and a variable number 

 (sometimes none) small. Rest of pattern indistinct reticulations, median fascia slightly darker 



