i 4 4 D- S. FLETCHER 



Distribution. Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rhodesia, 

 Angola. 



Material examined. 



Zamarada purimargo Prout, holotype $, Rhodesia: Selukwe, 20-27.X.1911 

 (F. W. Short), Geometridae genitalia slide no. 1688, BMNH. Zamarada viridiceps 

 Prout, holotype $, Zaire ('Belgian Congo'): Elisabeth ville, i. 1930 (C. Seydel), 

 in MRAC, Tervuren. 



Tanzania: Morogoro, Ilonga, i-iii. 1965 (Mrs Chalmers), 1 <$. Zaire ('Belgian 

 Congo'): Ht Katanga, Vallee de la Luina, 11.iii.1930 (/. Romieux), 1 <$ (MHN, 

 Geneva); Elisabethville, x, xi (C. Seydel), 2 $ (BMNH), 1 <$ (MRAC, Tervuren); 

 Kolwezi, ix. 1964 (V. Allard), 1 $ (NMK, Nairobi). Zambia: Mwinilunga, Zambezi 

 Rapids, 19.1.1965, 1 $; ibidem, v. 1963, 2 £ (all NMR, Bulawayo); Nkana, xii. 1933 

 {Mrs Prismall), 1 <J (TM, Pretoria); Bwana Mkubwa, xi. 1929, 1 $ (BMNH); 

 Abercorn, ii. 1964 (D. Vesey-Fitzgerald) , 1 <$ (NMK, Bulawayo). Malawi: Cent. 

 Angoniland, Lilongwe Distr., 4-5000 ft, 2.vi.i9io (S. A. Neave), 1 $; Zomba, 

 i. 1925 (H. Barlow), 1 $ (both BMNH); Limbe, Bvumbwe Exp. Stn., 11.viii.1968, 

 1 <$ (NMR, Bulawayo). Mozambique: Zambezia Prov., 16 miles S. of Vila 

 Junqueiro, i.v.1970 (E. Pinhey), 1 <$ (NMR, Bulawayo). Rhodesia: Shamva, 

 xii. 1921 (CTNeil), 1 $ (BMNH); Vumba, viii (B. D. Barnes), 2 <J; Vumba Mts, 

 Umtali, ii-iii. 1962, 1 <$; Gatooma, iii. 1956, 1 <$ (all NMR, Bulawayo); Melsetter, 

 Mountain Inn, xi. 1950 (H. B. D. Kettlewell), 1 $ (BMNH). Angola: Bihe, Gamba, 

 xii. 1934 (R. Braun), 1 $ (BMNH). 



The DILUCIDA -Group 



Placed near the excavata-gvonp because of habitus and the form of the 

 broad-based, tapered uncus, simple valve and simple juxta in the male genitalia. 

 Distinguished by the presence of two lobate processes on the aedeagus and the 

 strikingly distinctive cornutus on the vesica, arcuate in shape with a barbed tip. 

 In the male the hind tibia is dilate with a hair-pencil. In both sexes the discal 

 spots are absent from both fore and hind wings. 



In the female genitalia the simple, V-shaped operculum is covered ventrally by 

 a crenulate, membranous pocket. 



Zamarada dilucida Warren 



(Text-figs 244, 245; PL 52, figs 658, 659; PL no, figs 984, 985) 



Zamarada dilucida Warren, 1909 : 114. Holotype 3, Nigeria (BMNH) [examined]. 



(PI. no, figs 984, 985). Hyaline area of wings finely but sparsely striate with light grey; 

 discal spots absent. Non-hyaline terminal area of each wing purplish grey proximad of sharply 

 marked brownish orange, subterminal fascia and greyish orange distad of it. Underside of 

 non-hyaline terminal area dark brown anterior of vein M on each wing and at tornus of 

 fore wing; remainder light buff. 



