REVISION OF GENUS ZAMARADA 169 



Zamarada rufilinearia Swinhoe 

 (Text-figs 279, 280; PI. 68, figs 724, 725; PI. 112, fig. 1014) 



Zamarada rufilinearia Swinhoe, 1004 : 516. LECTOTYPE <J, Tanzania (BMXH), here 



designated [examined]. 

 Zamarada rufilinearia Swinhoe; Hampson, 1910 : 469. 

 Zamarada calliope Oberthur, 1912 : 259, 351, pi. 153, fig. 1469. LECTOTYPE $, Tanzania 



(BMNH), here designated [examined]. 

 Zamarada calliope Oberthur; Gaede, 1915 : 116 [synonymy]. 



(J § (PI. 112, fig. 1014). Hyaline area of wings greyish yellow (pi. 4, B5-6); costal area or 

 fore wing suffused with orange-red (pi. 8, B8) and irrorate with dark grey (pi. 8, Fi); discal 

 spots absent. Basal area of fore wing and non-hyaline terminal area of each wing dark 

 grey; lunulate subterminal fascia black, bordered distally with orange-red, finely on fore 

 wing, broadly on hind wing. Underside of non-hyaline terminal area uniformly dark grey. 



(J genitalia (Text-figs 279, 280). Valves symmetrical, apices sclerotized, incurved towards 

 uncus and scoop-like; dorsal process with setose projection at one-third. 



$ genitalia (PI. 68, figs 724, 725). Sterigma strongly sclerotized; posterior margin of lamella 

 postvaginalis narrowly cleft medially and fused anteriorly with short ductus bursae and with 

 transverse band of lamella antevaginalis. Ductus seminalis dilate and membranous. 



Measurements. Fore wing: <J 11-15 mm; 9 n-i6mm. Antcnnal pectinations: $ 1 

 $ 4-5 X diameter of shaft. 



Externally unmistakable, the striking colour of the wing pattern being diagnostic. 

 Distribution. Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique. 



Material examined. 



Zamarada rufilinearia Swinhoe, lectotype <$ here designated, Tanzania ('Ost 

 Afrika'): Dar-es-Salaam : 99-285 [purchased from Fruhstorfer] : 'Zamarada rufi- 

 linearia Swinh. type <£' [in Swinhoe's hand-writing]: Geometridae genitalia slide 

 no. 5941, in BMNH. Zamarada calliope Oberthur, lectotype $ here designated, 

 Tanzania: Zanguebar, Mhonda Ouzigoua (.4. Hacquard Mis. ap.), 1879, z " Trim. 

 1880: black and white outline print of fig. 1469: 'Zamarada calliope Obthr. $' [in 

 Oberthiir's hand-writing]: Ex Oberthur Coll. Brit. Mus. 1927-3, in BMNH. 



Uganda: Bwamba, vi. 1956 (R. H. Carcasson), 1 $ (NMK, Nairobi); Entebbe 

 Zika Forest, vii. 1961, 1 $ (NMR, Bulawayo); Zika, 5.vi. 1961 (W. K. Brown), 

 1 (J (BMNH). Kenya: Mombasa {van Someren), 1 <$. Tanzania: Dar-es-Salaam, 1 $ 

 (Zamarada rufilinearia Swinhoe paralectotype) ; Amani, iv. 1963 (G. Pringle), 

 1 (J; Usangu Dist., Ft Kifulufulu Mtn, 3000 ft, 16.xii.1910 (S. A. Neave), 1 (J; 

 Turiani, v. 1949 (T. H. E. Jackson), 1 £ (all BMNH); W. Prov., L. Tanganyika, 

 Ikola, ii. 1954 (T. H. E. Jackson), 1 $ (NMK, Nairobi). Zaire ('Belgian Congo'): 

 Tanganyika [Province], Region de M'Pala (R. P. Guilleme), 1 J (Zamarada calliope 

 Oberthur, paralectotype). Zambia: Between Luangwa R. and Petauke, 15.ix.1910, 

 1 S (both BMNH); East Luangwa Dist., Mterize R., 40 miles S. of Petauke, 

 2500ft, 23.iv.1905, 2 J (UM, Oxford); ibidem, 2.xi.i904, 1 £ (BMNH); Luangwa 

 Val., Niamadzi R., 2000 ft, 2. vii. 1905, 1 <$ (UM, Oxford) (all S. A. Neave); Ilonga, 

 ii. 1966 (7. Robertson), 1 ^ (NMK, Nairobi). Malawi: Karonga Dist., Valley of 

 N. Rukuru, 2-400 ft, 11.vii.1910, 1 <$; S.W. of Lake Chilwa, 8.1.1914, 14 <$, 8 $; 



