26o D. S. FLETCHER 



short tuft of hair-scales, equal in length to greatest width of tibia, arising at joint with femur. 



^ genitalia (Text-figs 437, 438). Uncus symmetrical and bilobate. Ventral plate of gnathus 

 broad and of even depth, strongly sclerotized. Valves slightly asymmetrical. Aedeagus 

 smooth and tapered. Fulcrum sparsely scobinate apicad. 



9 genitalia (PI. 91, figs 820, 821). Ductus bursae enclosed in a strongly sclerotized, truncate 

 cone-like sterigma, the operculum at the apex; a short, thorn-like projection from middle of 

 posterodorsal margin. Corpus bursae weakly ribbed and sclerotized posteriorly. 



Measurements. Fore wing: $ 18-19 mm; $ 16-5-17-5 mm. Antennal pectinations: 

 cj 7 X , $ 5 X diameter of shaft. 



Reminiscent of perlepidata and terftsichore in the perlepidata-group, in the 

 pearl-coloured, almost white hyaline area of the wings, but differing in pattern, 

 the combination being diagnostic. In the male genitalia the form of the valves 

 and of the fulcrum and in the female genitalia the form of the sterigma are 

 diagnostic. 



Distribution. Cameroun, Gabon. 



Holotype <$, Cameroun ('Kamerun'): Efulen, 24.x. 1913 (H. L. Weber), in CM, 

 Pittsburgh. 



Paratypes. Cameroun: Yabassi Dist., lat. 4 N. io° E., xii. 1937, dry season 

 (F. G. Merfield), 1 $ (BMNH); N'Kongsamba, 14.V.1958 (P. Darge), 1 <$; 8 km 

 N. d'Edea, 7.1V.1970 (C. Herbulot), 1 $ (both coll. Herbulot, Paris); Efulen, 9-io.i 

 (H. L. Weber), 3 <J; ibidem, 15-20.il, 2 <£; io-24.iii, 1 $, 2 $; 5-24.lv, 6 <$, 1 $; 

 v-vii, 4 (2; 11-26.X, 10 <J, 1 $; 9-i6.xi, 5 <J; 10-30.XU, 7 $; Lolodorf, xi. 1931, 

 1 <$ (all CM, Pittsburgh). Gabon: Rive dr. du Ieze, N. de Mwadi, 5.1V.1963 

 (G. Bernardi), 1 $ (MBG, Paris); He de Lambirini, xii. 1916-i. 1917, 1 <$; Lambarene, 

 Ogove R., ix. 1907 (Dr Ansorge), 1 $; Ogove, 1888 (Bosch), 1 $ (all BMNH); 

 Ogove River, Kangwe (A. C. Good), 1 $ (CM, Pittsburgh); Franceville, 11. ix. 1963, 

 1 (J; Mouila, 30.1X-5.X.1964, 2 $ (all P. Darge, in coll. Herbulot, Paris). 



Zamarada eucharis (Drury) 



(Text-figs 439, 440; PI. 91, figs 822, 823; PL 122, fig. 1096) 



[Phalaena] Noctua eucharis Drury, 1782: index, 31, pi. 22, fig. 6. NEOTYPE $, Sierra 

 Leone (BMNH), here designated [examined]. 



(J $ (PI. 122, fig. 1096). Hyaline area of wings tinged with green, sparsely irrorate proximally 

 with grey and finely edged distally with dark brown; a small discal spot on fore wing, dark 

 grey with light grey scales medially; discocellulars on hind wing unmarked. Non-hyaline 

 terminal area greyish brown (pi. 7, E3) irrorate with a very dark, brownish grey (pi. 7, F2) 

 distad of strongly marked, dentate subterminal fascia, also dark brownish grey. Underside 

 of non-hyaline terminal area uniformly brownish grey. 



Male hind tibia similar to that of eryma. 



^ genitalia (Text-figs 439, 440). Uncus and gnathus similar to those of eryma, but ventral 

 plate of gnathus deeper. Valves asymmetrical; ventral and dorsal margins almost parallel; 

 apical half of dorsal process similar to that of eryma. Aedeagus tapered and smooth. 

 Fulcrum longer than that of eryma, coarsely scobinate apicad. 





