206 d. s. fletcher 



Material examined. 



Zamarada acrochra Prout, holotype $, Senegal: Sedhiou, 17-25. vii.1917 

 (H. Castell), Geometridae genitalia slide no. 6379, * n BMNH. 



Senegal: Sedhiou, 1917 (H. Castell), 1 $; ibidem, 5-12.vii.1917, 2 $ (all Zamarada 

 acrochra Prout paratypes, in BMNH). Guinea: Boffa (ex de Fleury), 1922,1$. 

 Sierra Leone: Freetown, Mt Annol, vi. 1900 (F. S. Penny), 1 9; Freetown, vii. 1933 

 (P. A. Buxton), 1 9; ibidem, x-xii (D. F. Owen), 9 <J, 3 $ (all BMNH). Ivory 

 Coast: Yapo-Sud, 22 km S.S.E. of Agboville, 12-18.iv.1969 (C. Herbulot), 3 <$, 

 6 $; Lamto, 36 km N.N.W. of Tiassale, 20-23.iv.1969 (C. Herbulot), 6 £, 2 9 (all 

 coll. Herbulot, Paris). Ghana: N. Territories, Kete-Krachi (A. W. Cardinall), 

 6 $; Kumasi (H. Whiteside), 2 $; Wassaw distr., 45 miles inland from Sekondi, 

 1 9; Nsaba, v. 1922 {N. E. Bell), 1 $ (aU BMNH). Nigeria: Lagos, 2 <J, 3 $; 

 Lagos, Olokemeji, iv. 1906 (G. C. Dudgeon), 1 J; Agoiie (Benin), 1884 (^466e 

 Menager), 1 <J; Lokoja, R. Niger (A. Cook), 1 ?; Abinsi, River Benue, 7.V.1912, 

 I (J; Ogruga, Niger, 1^,1$; Degama, Niger (Dr Ansorge), 1 9- Cameroun: 

 Lolodorf, 1894-1895 (L. Conradt), 2 $; ibidem, ix. 1930-i. 1931, 1 $ (all BMNH); 

 Efulen, iii-vi, x, xii (H. L. Weber), 3 $, 8 $ (all CM, Pittsburgh); Epulan, i.v.1926 

 (G. Schwab), 1 $ (BMNH). Gabon: Wonga Wonghe, 12. ii. 1967 (P. Darge), 1 ^ 

 (coll. Herbulot, Paris). Angola: Amboim district, Fazenda Congulu, 7-800 m, 

 7-11.iv.1934 (Dr K. Jordan), 1 $ (BMNH). Tanzania: Kigoma, Mukuyu, xii. 1962, 

 Japanese Primate Expedition, 1 $ (NMK, Nairobi). 



Zamarada auratisquama Warren 

 (Text-figs 341, 342; PI. 73, figs 745, 746; PI. 118, fig. 1059) 



Zamarada auratisquama Warren, 1897 : I22 - Holotype^, Nigeria (BMNH) [examined]. 



(J 9- (PI. 118, fig. 1059). Hyaline area of wings tinged with dark green and edged distally 

 with two fasciae, the more proximal bright buff, the more distal brownish orange (pi. 6, C8) 

 finely edged with silvery grey; costa of fore wing yellow irrorate with dark grey and brownish 

 orange medially and with pearl grey basally; tegulae, posterior margin and slenderly marked 

 discocellulars on fore wing pearl-grey. Subterminal fascia dentate and brown irrorate with 

 black, strongly marked and finely edged distally with silvery grey; proximad of subterminal 

 fascia non-hyaline area light brown, distad of it warm buff and grey. Underside of 

 non-hyaline area light brown, distad of it warm buff and grey. Underside of non-hyaline 

 terminal area dark brown proximally, paling to buff terminad, except in discal area of fore 

 wing; apical area of fore wing clear buff; discocellulars of fore wing strongly but slenderly 

 marked, dark brown. 



Male hind tibia dilate with dense tuft of long, light buff hair-scales, the tuft almost as long 

 as the tibia. 



(J genitalia (Text-figs 341, 342). Similar to those of acrochra, differing in the slightly 

 longer valve and the dilation of its dorsal process near base; in the longer, less dilate aedeagus 

 with its straight ridge of short spines and in the very short fulcrum, which is only one-half 

 as long as the aedeagus. 



9 genitalia (PI. 73, figs 745, 746). Posterior margin of lamella antevaginalis minutely 

 serrate, shallowly excavate medially. Signum distinctively non-stellate, smooth-edged 

 except for minute serrations anteriorly. 



Measurements. Fore wing: $ 17-5-19-0 mm; 9 18-19 mm. Antennal pectinations: 

 ^ 7 X, $ 3 X diameter of shaft. 



