236 D. S. FLETCHER 



Holotype <$, Tanzania: Mai. Inst. Amani (G. Pringle), Geometridae genitalia 

 slide no. 7224, in BMNH. 



Paratypes. Kenya: Kenya Coast, Shimba Hills, xii. 1961, 1 <3\ 1 $; Kenya 

 Coast, Gazi Forest, iv. 1964, 1 J (all R. H. Carcasson); Nyali, i.iii.1969 (D. G. 

 Sevastopulo), 1 $; ibidem, 11.iv.1969, 1 J; 20.x. 1969, 1 J; xii, 3 q, 1 ? (all BMNH). 

 Tanzania: Amani (G. Pringle), 1 $, 1 $ (BMNH); ibidem, xi. 1965 (R. H. Carcasson), 

 3 $ (NMK, Nairobi); ibidem, 21-30. iv.1969 (Watulege), 1 $ (coll. Herbulot, Paris). 

 Uganda: Kampala, vi. 1953 (D. G. Sevastopulo), 1 $ (BMNH). Cameroun: 

 Efulen, 16.iii.1917 (H. L. Weber), 1 $ (CM, Pittsburgh). Nigeria: Yaba, 3.vii.i9i3 

 (/. W. Scott Macfie), 1 $; Lagos, 2 $. Ghana: Kumasi (Coomassie), i. 1923 (N. E. 

 Bell), 1 $. Ivory Coast: i <J (all BMNH); Lamto, 36km N.N.W. of Tiassale, 

 20-23.iv.1969, 2 cJ; Yapo-Sud, 22 km S.S.E. of Agboville, 12-18.iv.1969, 1 $ (all 

 C. Herbulot, in coll. Herbulot, Paris). Liberia: Nimba, Grassfield, vii-viii. 1967 

 (A. Forbes-Watson), 1 J (NMK, Nairobi). Guinea: Beyla (Dr Mir. Mrdzek), 2 J, 

 1 $ (MM, Brno); Tondon, Cercle de Dubreka (L. Labour), 1 $ (coll. Herbulot, 

 Paris) . 



Zamarada reflexaria (Walker) 

 (Text-figs 401, 402; PL 84, figs 790, 791; PL 120, figs 1078, 1080) 

 Comibaena reflexaria Walker, [1863] 1862 : 1565. 



3* genitalia (Text-figs, 401, 402). Similar to those of rhamphis and cucharita, differing in 

 the shallowly excavate apical margin of the valve and in the form of the fulcrum, the arcuate 

 central core of which is tipped with stout spines and has a claw-like appearance; the margins 

 of its sheath are serrate apicad. 



$ genitalia (PI. 84, figs 790, 791) . Closely similar to those of cucharita, differing in the narrower 

 transverse sclerotized band fused with and overlying the lamella antevaginalis, in the minutely 

 serrate posterior margins of the two weakly sclerotized, ovate plates extending posteriorly 

 from it and in the serrate apex of the posterior ventral margin of the operculum. 



Measurements. Fore wing: 3 1 15-18 mm; $ 14-0-16-5 mm. Antennal pectinations: 

 o 7-5 X, $ 4 X diameter of shaft. 



Two subspecies are recognized, distinguished by colour and wing pattern; the 

 nominate subspecies occurs in West Africa, from Guinea to Angola, subsp. apsis 

 occurs in Eastern Zaire, Uganda and Western Kenya. 



The male hind tibia is similar to that of cucharita. 



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



Zamarada reflexaria reflexaria (Walker) 

 (PL 120, fig. 1078) 



Comibaena reflexaria Walker, [1863] 1862 : 1565. Lectotype $, Sierra Leone (BMNH) 



[examined]. 

 Zamarada reflexaria (Walker) Swinhoe, 1904 : 517. [Lectotype designation.] 



(J $• Closely similar in colour and pattern to cucharita. Hyaline area of wings striate 

 with grey proximally, the grey having a purple tint in oblique light, and finely edged distally 



