revision of genus za marada 119 



Material examined. 



Zamarada urania Oberthiir, holotype <$, Cameroun ('Kamerun'): Lolodorf, 

 1894-1895 (L. Conradt), Geometridae genitalia slide no. 6020, in BMNH. 



Gabon: Makokou, 500m, 19.lv. 1963, 1 $; Belinga, Piste de Mwadi, 800m, 

 20.iii.1963, 1 $, 1 $; Crete Sud, 900 m, 29.iii.1963, 1 9 (all G. Bernardi, in MBG, 

 Paris) . 



Zamarada melanopyga Herbulot 

 (Text-figs 193, 194; PL 40, figs 609, 610; PL 106, fig. 948) 



Zamarada melanopyga Herbulot, 1954 1326, pi. 1. rig. 12, text-fig. 14. Holotype £, 

 Guinea (MNHN, Paris) [examined]. 



(J $ (PI. 106, fig. 948). Hyaline area of wings greyish yellow. Non-hyaline terminal area 

 of wings light brown (pi. 6, U5-6) ; subterminal fascia brown (pi. 6, E6, cocoa-brown) edged 

 distally with light buff, dentate and extending directly from costa to vein M s on each wing 

 and then from vein Cw lb to posterior margin; cilia chequered grey and dull yellow. Underside 

 of non-hyaline terminal area of wings uniformly dark brown. Tip of male abdomen dark 

 grey. 



$ genitalia (Text-ti^s 193, 1941. Dorsal margin of valve slenderly sclerotized, apex produced 

 in digitate form, two-thirds as long as uncus; dorsal process boldly curved through 90 degrees, 

 short, not extending beyond level of uncus, with a blunt, setose projection at one-third; 

 hair-scales of coremata black. Aedeagus tapered finely. Fulcrum sinuous with a pair of 

 angular projections at three-fourths. Vesica with two cornuti, one hook-shaped, one slender 

 and scobinate. 



9 genitalia (PI. 40, figs 609, 610). 



Measurements. Fore wing: q* io«5-i3-o mm; V 11-5-130 mm. Antenna! pectinations: 

 (J 9 v , $ 4 X diameter of shaft. 



Differs externally from the closely similar sitbinterrnpta Gaede in the excavata- 

 group in the uniformly dark brown underside of the non-hyaline terminal area 

 of the wings, lacking the pale apical area found on the fore wing of that species; 

 differs further in the male in the dark grey terminal segments of the abdomen 

 and in the presence of a simple hind tibia. The form of the valve with the 

 slenderly produced apex of the dorsal margin and of the two cornuti in the male 

 genitalia and the form of the sterigma in the female genitalia are diagnostic. 



Distribution. West Africa, Guinea to Angola, Zaire, W. Uganda. 



Material examined. 



Zamarada melanopyga Herbulot, holotype <$, Guinea ('Guinee'): Mt. Nimba, 

 30.ix.1951 (.1/. Lamotte et R. Roy), in MNHN, Paris. 



Guinea: Mt. Nimba, 550 m, viii. 1951 (M. Lamotte et R. Roy), 1 <$; ibidem, 

 1-20.X.1951, 5 £, 5 $ (MNHN, Paris, IFAN, Dakar, coll. Herbulot, Paris); Beyla 

 (Dr Mir. Mrdzek), 1 $ (MM, Brno); Macenta, 2000 ft, 2-21.V.1926 (C. L. Collenette), 

 1 $ (BMNH). Sierra Leone: Freetown, 8.X-19.XL1968 {D. F. Owen), 1 $; 

 Bambawo, 12. vi. 1969 (R. Revell), 2 q. Ivory Coast: Bingerville, 14-20.vi.1915 

 {G. Melon), 1 <J (all BMNH); Yapo-Sud, 22 km S.S.E. of Agboville, 12-18.iv.1969 



