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Sierra Leone: Njala, 21.V.1926 (E. Hargreaves), 1 $. Liberia: 12 miles E 

 of Monrovia, below 100 ft, rainy season, vi. 1926 (M. Portal Hyatt), 1 $; ibidem, 

 vii. 1926, 1 $. Ivory Coast: Bingerville, 11-14.viii.1915 (G. Melon), 1 $; ibidem, 

 xi. 1913, 1 $ (all BMNH); Gopoupleu pres Danane, i. 1959 (M. Condamin & R. Roy), 

 1 $ (IFAN, Dakar); Lamto, 36 km N.N.W. de Tiassale, 20-23.iv.1969 (C. Herbulot), 

 1 <J (coll. Herbulot). Nigeria: Degama (Dr Ansorge), 2 $; Agberi, Niger, 20.vi.1901 

 (Ansorge), 1 $; Warri, 26.iv.1897 (Dr Roth), 1 rj (all BMNH). Zaire ('Belgian 

 Congo'): Bamania (pres Coquilhatville) (R. P. Huhtaert), 1 <^; Lusambo, 21.vi.1949 

 (Dr M. Fontaine), 1 £ (both MRAC, Tervuren). 



Zamarada lophobela sp. n. 



(Text-figs 159, 160; PL S3, figs 583, 584; PL 104, fig. 932) 



£ (PI. 104, fig. 932). Hind tibia dilate with pencil of light buff hair-scales. 



$ genitalia (Text-figs 159, 160). Apical three-fifths of dorsal margin of valve coarsely 

 scobinate, tip folded dorsad, curved towards uncus and tapered. Aedeagus with digitate 

 projection at three-fourths. Fulcrum short, not extending to tip of aedeagus; broad, lateral 

 margins irregularly crenulate. Vesica with a short, hook-like cornutus and a scobinate band 

 one-half as long as aedeagus. 



$ genitalia (PI. 33, figs 583, 584). Lamella antcvaginalis asymmetrical with posteriorly 

 inclined, tapered projection at right side. Lamella postvaginalis with a pair of finely tapered, 

 posteriorly inclined projections, one at each side. Posterior half of corpus bursae ribbed and 

 sclerotized. 



Measurements. Fore wing: £ 12-14 mm; 9 12-13 mm. Antennal pectinations: 3 9 X, 

 $ 3 X diameter of shaft. 



Externally closely similar to melanopyga Herbulot and cautela sp. n. in the 

 protrusa-group, differing from them in the presence of a dilate hind tibia in the 

 male and from melanopyga in the uniformly greyish brown abdomen, lacking the 

 conspicuous dark grey terminal segment of that species. Differs structurally 

 from both these and other species in the excavata- and protrusa-groups in the form 

 of the valve and the ornamentation of the vesica in the male genitalia and in the 

 form of the sterigma and the extent of the sclerotization of the corpus bursae in 

 the female genitalia. 



Distribution. Gabon. 



Holotype <$, Gabon: Mouila, 20.X.1964 (P. Darge), in coll. Herbulot, Paris. 



Paratypes. Gabon: Mouila, 25.ix.-1.xi.1964 [P. Darge), 9 <J, 8 $ (coll. Herbulot, 

 Paris) . 



The PROTRUSA -Group 



A group closely similar in habitus to many species in the excavata-group and 

 closely similar in structure, in the form of the uncus and in the absence of a ventral 

 plate on the gnathus in the male genitalia. 



Characterized in the male genitalia by the dense covering of short hair-scales 

 on the dorsal surface of the valves (PL 94, fig. 835), which are weakly sclerotized, 



