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COLOCLEORA. By L. B. Prout. 
hisionica 
poli/plancs. 
Icucosicpha- 
na. 
facet a. 
coUenettei. 
belhda. 
C. bistonica Prout. Expanse 37 mm. Face black, with the upper jiart creamy white. Wings white, 
the forewing witli the two principal lines sharply black, accompanied on their reverse sides by irregrdar brow¬ 
nish shades; median line arising from a thick, angular mark on costa, running outward to approach the post¬ 
median but mostly slender and weak. Hindwing weaker marked, but with the postmedian becoming strong 
behind 2nd median, thence oblique outward, and an oblique black proximal-subterminal mark at tornus. 
Only tlie type o known, taken near Eshowe (Zululand) in January 1916. Somewhat suggestive of a Biston. 
28. Genus: Colooleora gen. nov. 
I have for a good many years used this ‘‘provisional” name for a number of African forms which 
cannot satisfactorily be contained in Chora or Aids nor in any of the more Bistonine genera. Perhaps some of 
them may have affinities with CerurograjAia (see above), one (faceta) I ventured to describe in that genus, 
while a few form a part of the Racotis of Janse (not Racotis Moore, sens. str.). Build robust. Face not pro¬ 
tuberant, scaling dense, moderately api^ressed. Palpus short or shortish, densely scaled; 3rd joint partially 
concealed. Tongue short. Antenna short, in G with long pectinations, a moderate or short apical part simple 
(but see j)olyplanes). Breast densely hairy. Femora hairy; foretibia generally, at least in the d', hairy or densely 
tnfted. Forewing with termen tvaved or nearly smooth, obliqne; fovea usually present; cell jA rather less, 
generally more or less produced anteriorly, discocellulars incurved, typically rather dee^ily so at cell-fold; 1st 
and 2nd subcostal free or shortly stalked (in the $$ generally long-stalked, in those of a few species coincident), 
2nd radial arising before the bend of the discocellulars. Hindwing Avitli costa not elongate (generally rather 
short), termen waved or cremdate (in a few $$ deeply crenulate), cell never very short, 2nd radial wanting, 
occasionally showing vestiges proximally. Type of the genus; Colocleora ansorgei (= Aids ansorgei Warr.). 
Seems to stand near the common base of the Chora and Hyposidra groups, agreeing with the former (or ap¬ 
proaching the Biston group) in shape and facies, but with the short antenna and an approach to the venational 
conditions of Hyposidra. I only recognize it as African. 
C. polyplanes sp. nov. (16 b). Expanse 42 mm. Head rough-haired. Anomalous in having the tongue 
stouter, the antenna dentate, each joint with 2 pairs of rather long, slender fascicles and in lacking the fovea. 
Probably it will need a separate genus. Forewing with termen very gently curved, strongly oblique; 1st and 
2nd siibcostals free; white, the costal margin and veins tinged with buff; blackish irroration mostly dense; 
cell-mark surrounded by dark suffusion; the course of the dentate black postmedian line and the dark fuscous 
proximal shades of the subterminal characteristic. Hindwing rather short, much as in the African Buzura”, 
much whiter than the forewing, weakly marked. Lake Kivu: Rugege Forest, Ruanda district, 7000 feet, De¬ 
cember 1921 (T. A. Barxs), only the type C known. 
C. spuria Prout (16 c). Foretibia of G hairy. Fovea of G stronger than usual. Colours nearly as in 
divisaria, their distribution, as well as the wing-shape, quite different. Lines of the forewing weak posteriorly, 
the cinnamon or slightly rufous colour generally running from basal patch along costal margin and broadening 
distally (about to the 1st radial). French Guinea to Kivu and Uganda. — f. (? sp. div.) leucostephana 7iov. 
agrees in structure and in the hindwing, but has the vertex white, the forewing Avith basal and median areas 
and an extension for a few mm beyond (with a sharp angulation at 1st median) almost completely occupied 
by a grey-brown cloud. Gold Coast: Bibianaha, 700 feet, type C iii Gie British Museinn; a similar from 
iMabera Forest. 
C. faceta Prout (16 c). Forewing shaped nearly as in Cerurographa bisto7iica, with which it may well 
be congeneric (see above), hindwing fuller and with more rounded termen. Forewing with 1st and 2nd sub- 
costals just stalked; markings macidar or cloudy, the antemedian outwardly oblique, the median sinuous,with 
strong cloudings; cell-s])ots present, that of the forewing indefinite, ocellated. National Park, Natal, the type 
unique. 
C. collenettei sp. 7i. (16 c). Foretibia not hairy, other characters of Colocleora. Palpus short, 2nd joint 
with projecting scales beneath. Antennal pectinations decreasing moderately rapidly tOAvards the dentate, 
non-pectinate apical 12 joints; abdomen Avith narroAv dorsal ridge or series of dots of a light cinnamon-bnft’. 
Forewing shape altogether recalling some of the Bisto^i group; 1st and 2nd subcostals Avell separate; fovea 
strong, circular; the coloration, esiAecially the bright cinamon, taAA'ny-mixed distal area, Amry distinctiAm. 
HindAving Avith termen crenulate. Underside similar to iipper; foreAA'ing Avhite behind 2nd submedian. Near 
Macenta, French Guinea, 1609 feet: Massadou, type and paratype; Soundedou, 1 d'; collected 13—17 May 
1926 for the late Mr. Joicey by Mr. C. L. Collenette. A striking sjiecies, belonging to the more Hyposidra- 
like element of Colocleora. 
C. bellula sp. w. (16 c). A small species, expanding scarcely 32 mm. Legs not tufted nor fringed, but 
the short jjalpus, atrophied tongue, long cell of the foreAving and other characters jfiace it here. ForeAving Avith 
