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Volume I, Number 8
ae, Lasiocampidae, Eupterotidae, Bombycidae
Saturniidae, Sphingidae
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Wosidac Metarbelidae, Psychidae, Limacodidae, Drepanidae,
Uraniidae, Lasiocampidae, Eupterotidae, Bombycidae,
Saturniidae & Sphingidae
By DS. FLETCHER | —
British Museum (Natural ascot)
The present paper, which concludes the Lepidoptera volume of the reports of the Ruwenzori
Expedition 1952, includes the families Cossidae, Metarbelidae, Psychidae, Limacodidae, Drepani-
dae, Uraniidae, Lasiocampidae, Eupterotidae, Bombycidae, Saturniidae and Sphingidae. Sixty-
eight species of the eleven families are listed; seventeen species are described as new. A further
species and subspecies were described as new by A. Watson in other publications dealing with
Drepanidae.
The treatment of species and the citation of references follow the pattern of the earlier numbers
of the volume. The colour names used are those of Ridgway’s “Color Standards and Color
Nomenclature”. All specimens, unless otherwise stated, are in the British Museum (Natural
History), abbreviated in the text to B.M.(N.H.).
I should like to express my thanks to the following for their kind help with identifications:
Monsieur P. Rougeot (Saturniidae); Mr. W. H. T. Tams (Lasiocampidae) and Mr. A. Watson
(Drepanidae).
COSSIDAE
Azygophleps boisduvalii (Herrich-Schaffer)
Zeuzera boisduvalii Herrich-Schaffer, 1854, Sammlung aussereurop. Schmett., 1 (1), pl. 35 : 167;
MSSos L 2 58.
Azygophileps boisduvalii Herrich-Schaffer, Gaede, 1930, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde,
Te: 545, pl. 79 : €
RUWENZOR!I: Kilembe, 4,500 ft., xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 1 3; Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 20-21.viii.
1952 (Fletcher), 3 3; ibid., 4-12.1x.1952, 2 $; Bwamba Pass (west side), 5,500-7,500 ft., xii.1934-
1.193 5 (Edwards), 1 3.
UGANDA: Semliki Forest, 2,850 ft., 22.vili-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 2 $; Bundibugyo, 3,440 ft.,
22.Vili—3.1x.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Guinea; Sierra Leone; Ivory Coast; Ghana; Nigeria; Sudan (White Nile) ;
Ethiopia; Kenya; Uganda; Congo (Leopoldville); Zambia; Rhodesia.
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Azygophleps inclusa (Walker)
Zeuzera inclusa Walker, 1856, List Lep. Ins. B.M. 7 : 1534.
Zeuzera petax Wallengren, 1860, Wien. ent. Monatschr. 4 : 43.
Azygophleps kilimandjarae Le Cerf, 1914, Bull. ent. Soc. Fr. 1914 : 399.
zygophleps inclusa Walker, Gaede, 1930, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14 : 545,
pl 70 sie:
RUWENZORI: Bugoye, 1,300 m., 14.iv.1948 (Holm), 7 3 in Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum,
Stockholm; Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 20-21.vii.1952 (Fletcher), 2 ¢; Bwamba Pass (west side), 5,500-
7,500 ft., xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 1 3.
UGANDA: Fort Portal, 5,000 ft., xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 2 3.
Distribution: Sokotra; Somalia; Sudan; Kenya; Tanzania; Zambia; Mozambique; Malawi;
Rhodesia; Transvaal; Natal; Uganda; E. Congo (Leopoldville); Ghana; Ivory Coast; Sierra
Leone; Guinea.
Azygophleps tandoensis Bethune-Baker (Figure 1)
Azygophileps tandoensis Bethune-Baker, 1927, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (9) 20 : 330.
RUWENZORI: Bugoye, 1,300 m., 14.iv.1948 (Holm), 6 3 in Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum,
Stockholm.
Distribution: Angola; Malawi; Kenya.
Azygophleps ochricosta sp.n. (Figures 2, 3, 45, 46)
3 48-62 mm.; 2 65 mm. Male: Antenna with 20-23 pectinate segments. Palpus and frons fuscous
to fuscous black; patagia and tegulae pinkish buff, patagia with slender, horizontal, fuscous black
bar; thorax pinkish buff laterally, otherwise fuscous black; abdomen pinkish buff irrorate with
fuscous black, bearing a fuscous black dorsal crest on segment one. Upperside of wings pinkish
buff patterned with fuscous and fuscous black; fore wing conspicuously streaked with light buff
to white interneurally in discal area distad of discocellulars; a similarly coloured, ovate spot in
middle of submedial fold; cilia with fuscous black spots at vein ends (Figures 2, 3). Underside of
wings pinkish buff patterned with fuscous black.
Female antenna with 18 shortly pectinate segments. Similar in colour and pattern to male.
Male genitalia (Figures 45, 46): Vesica without cornutus.
A. ochricosta, widely distributed in the forest regions of equatorial Africa, is probably most
closely related to A. tandoensis, from which it may be distinguished by colour and pattern.
A similarly coloured and similarly patterned species, known from four males, is sympatric
with ochricosta in Rwanda and occurs at Njombe in Tanzania; it differs in having 26-28 pectinate
segments in the male antenna and differs also in the aedeagus having a strongly sclerotized,
longitudinal, dorsal ridge.
[GUINEA] FRENCH GUINEA: Soundedou, nr. Macenta, 1,600 ft., 12.v.1926, 1 S$; Bokouni,
nr. Macenta, 1,750 ft., 11.v.1926, I 3; Macenta, 2,000 ft., 3.v.1926, 1 3, all (C. L. Collenette).
[CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)]: BELGIAN CONGO: Ituri Forest, 3,800-4,100 ft., ii-tv.1930,
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begin. wet season (Lord Howard de Walden Exp.), 1 3; Lake Kivu, 2-12.viii.1954 (C. G. M. de
Worms), 1 3; W. Kivu, Upper Lowa Valley, Nr. Masisi, 5—6,000 ft., forest and long grass, ii.1924,
wet season (T. A. Barns), 1 3.
[RwanDA]: Ruanda Distr., Lake Kivu, Rugege Forest, 7-8,000 ft., xii.1921 (T. A. Barns), 2 3
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RUWENZORI: Namwamba Valley, 6,500 ft., xii.1934-i.1935 (Edwards), 2 3.
UGANDA: Kigezi District, 7,500-8,000 ft., vi.1951(T. H. E. Jackson), 1 3; Kanaba Gap, bamboo
forest, 8,000 ft., 3.iv.1951 (J. A. Burgess), 1 3; Mafuga Forest, Entebbe, iii.1961 (N. Mittoi), 2 3.
KENYA: Kitale, vii.1958 (C. Howard), 1 3; Hoey’s Bridge (Capt. Pitman), 1 3.
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| [TANZANIA] TANGANYIKA TERR.: Arusha Dist. (Lieut. M. S. Moore), 1 9; E. Usambara
_ Mts., Amani, 11.1953 (E. Pinhey), 1 $; Amani, v, vii, xi, xii (G. Pringle), 5 3; Mbeya, 28.xi.1950
(H. B. D. Kettlewell), 1 3; Njombe, 6,000-6,500 ft., 27.1.1952 (Dr. W. Peters), 1 3.
_ _ [MALAWI] NYASALAND: (H. Barlow), 2 3.
|S. RHODESIA: Melsetter, Mountain Inn, xi.1950 (H. B. D. Kettlewell), 5 3; Vumba, 7.xi.1936
_ (J. E. Drysdale), 11 3 including holotype.
Azygophleps mediopallens sp.n. (Figures 4, 5, 44)
3 63-77 mm. Male: Antenna with 30-33 pectinate segments. Palpus fuscous black; frons,
_ patagia and tegulae white to tilleul buff mixed with fuscous black, patagia with slender, horizontal,
. fuscous black bar; thorax light to warm buff mixed with fuscous, edged laterally with a streak of
fuscous black and then with one of clear light to warm buff; abdomen light buff mixed with
_ fuscous and bearing a fuscous medio-dorsal crest on segment one. Upperside: fore wing pinkish
_ buff patterned with fuscous black; middle of costal and distal half of discal areas irrorate with
| white; middle of submedial fold conspicuously white to light buff, posterior half slenderly
divided with a fuscous black streak. Hind wing white shading to light buff proximally, varying
| but usually very lightly irrorate with fuscous black; cilia light buff with fuscous black spots at
| the vein ends (Figures 4, 5). Underside: fore wing light buff posteriorly, pinkish buff with fuscous
_ black along costa and streaked interneurally with fuscous black distad of discal area. Hind wing
_ light buff irrorate proximally and streaked interneurally with fuscous black distad of discal area.
Genitalia (Figure 44): Vesica with a slender strap-like cornutus: in other respects similar to
_A. ochricosta (Figures 45, 46).
| A species that is distinctive in colour and pattern, known at present only from the ericaceous
zone of Ruwenzori.
RUWENZORI: Namwamba Valley, 10,200 ft., xii.1934-4.193 5 (Edwards), 9 3 including holotype.
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| Oreocossus occidentalis Strand (Figures 7-9)
'Oreocossus occidentalis Strand, 1913, Arch. Naturgesch. 78 (A) 12 : 35.
Oreocossus occidentalis Strand, 1915, op. cit. 81 (A) 2 : 134, pl., figure 2.
Oreocossus kilimanjarensis occidentalis Strand, Gaede, 1930, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde,
mes 547, pl.79): hb.
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RUWENZORI: Kilembe, 4,500 ft., 5 g, 1 9; Namwamba Valley, 6,500 ft., 6 ¢; Bwamba Pass
(west side), 5,500-7,500 ft., 9 3; all xii.1934~-1.1935 (Edwards); Mahoma River, 6,700 ft., 13-16.
viii.1952 (Fletcher), 5 3; Nyinabitaba, 8,650 ft., 7-13.vii.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
The short series of five males from the Mahoma River match well Strand’s type of occidentalis
from Spanish Guinea, in colour, pattern and size, measuring in wingspan 40-45 mm.; Strand’s
type measures 40 mm. (Figure 9). Four of the series of nine specimens from the west side of the
Bwamba Pass measure 60-65 mm. and are patterned with fuscous black on a paler ground colour
than that of the type and the hind wing especially has a much more sharply marked and contrasted
pattern (Figure 7). The other specimens from the Bwamba Pass, the Namwamba Valley and
from Kilembe range in wingspan from 35-65 mm. and are intermediate in depth of shade of
marking and of contrast in pattern.
A series of five males collected by Edwards in Kenya (Mt. Kinangop, 8,000 ft., x.1934) range
in wingspan from 39-44 mm. The ground colour of the wings is white to tilleul buff, the pattern,
sparse on the hind wing, is fuscous black. These specimens are matched by a further 16 male speci-
mens from various localities in Kenya and two male specimens from N. Tanzania (Figure 8).
The single male specimen from Nyinabitaba, high in the rain forest of Ruwenzori, and the speci-
men recorded from the Semliki Valley by Hampson (1909 : 134) as cilimanjarensis Holland
approach closely the Kinangop series in size, colour and pattern.
Female specimens associated with typical occidentalis have antennal pectinations twice as long
as the diameter of the shaft; those associated with the Kinangop series have antennal pectinations
equal or subequal in length to the diameter of the shaft. No corresponding structural difference
has been found in the males of the two groups.
O. occidentalis Strand in its typical form is represented in the British Museum (Natural History)
by specimens from Mt. Cameroun, Angola, E. Congo (Leopoldville), Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania
and Mozambique.
The Kinangop series and those specimens associated with them may represent a higher elevation
form of occidentalis or perhaps a distinct species. Until adequate material is available, with precise
data relating to elevation and to vegetation associations, the Kinangop form is provisionally
placed with occidentalis.
Brachylia badiala sp.n. (Figures 6, 41)
3 31-36 mm.: Vestiture pinkish buff irrorate with bister; metathorax and dorsal crest on first
abdominal segment bister; patagia edged apically with bister; mesothorax pinkish buff; legs
long-scaled and bister anteriorly, short-scaled and pinkish buff posteriorly. Upperside: fore wing
pinkish buff; medial area suffused with russet, costal and inner margins deep brownish drab;
transverse striae and medial fascia, broken in discal area, black. Hind wing pinkish buff suffused
with and weakly patterned in reticulate form with fuscous (Figure 6). Underside of wings
similar to upperside of hind wing.
Genitalia (Figure 41). Dorsal margin of valve with apical fourth sclerotized, crenulate and
ridged and with a U-shaped, tapered process at base; medial plate of gnathos densely spined;
paired anellus processes setose; vesica without cornutus.
Distinct in colour and pattern; differing structurally from the related B. terebroides Felder
(Figure 43) in the form of the valve and of its basal process.
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RUWENZORI: Namwamba Valley, 6,500 ft., xii.1934~-i.1935 (Edwards), 1 3; Mahoma River,
6,700 ft., 13-16.viii.1952 (Fletcher), 2 3 including holotype, which bears additional label, Cossidae
genitalia slide No. 40.
Phragmatoecia pallens (Herrich-Schiffer)
Rhizona pallens Herrich-Schaffer, 1854, Sammlung aussereurop. Schmett. 1 (1), pl. 35 : 169.
RUWENZORI: Kilembe, 4,500 ft., 1 g; Bwamba Pass (west side), 5,500-7,500 ft., 11 g, 2 9;
Namwamba Valley, 6,500 ft., 1 3, all xii.1934~-i.1935 (Edwards); Mahoma River, 6,700 ft.,
13-16.vili.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Sierra Leone; Nigeria; Cameroun; Uganda.
METARBELIDAE
Metarbela nubifera (Bethune-Baker) (Figure 12)
Marshalliana nubifera Bethune-Baker, 1909, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8)3 : 425.
RUWENZORI: Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 4-12.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 9.
UGANDA: Fort Portal, 5,000 ft., xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 1 9.
Distribution: Kenya, Uganda.
Metarbela splendida sp.n. (Figure 10)
6 47 mm.: Vestiture light buff weakly suffused with drab. Fore wing light buff patterned with
_ broken, transverse striae of ochraceous buff surrounded by cinnamon brown irroration; pattern
_ dense anterior of vein Cu1b and at three-fifths inner margin; vein Cu1b edged posteriorly with
| parallel area of clean and sharply defined ground colour. Hind wing light buff very lightly
— irrorate with drab.
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Distinct in the genus by reason of its pattern and its very large size, being one and one-half
times greater in wingspan than any known species.
RUWENZORI: Bwamba Pass, 6,500 ft., xii.1934~-1.1935 (Edwards), holotype.
Salagena arcys sp.n. (Figures 11, 42)
$28 mm.: Legs white mixed with drab and bister. Frons and thorax white, the long hair scales
| tipped with Outer abdomen drab with some white to tilleul buff scaling posteroventrally. Fore
' wing cinnamon drab, rather paler in anterior proximal fourth, with black reticulate pattern;
‘terminal interneural spots white. Hind wing drab with a weak, fuscous, reticulate pattern;
terminal interneural spots pale (Figure 11).
Genitalia (Figure 42): Uncus very slightly tapered to a broadly rounded apex; sclerotized arms
of gnathus broad and spatulate, connected medially by a weak membrane.
The cinnamon drab ground colour and sharply defined black reticulate pattern of the fore
wing are diagnostic.
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RUWENZORI: Bwamba Pass (west side), 5,500-7,500 ft., xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), Cossidae
genitalia slide No, 36, holotype.
A female, with similar colour and pattern, collected by Dr. G. Pringle at Amani, Tanzania in
February is associated with arcys, but excluded from the type series.
PSYCHIDAE
Monda immunda Joicey & Talbot
Monda immunda Joicey & Talbot, 1924, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley, 1(3) : 563.
RUWENZORI: Bwamba Pass (west side), 5,500-7,500 ft., 1 ¢; Namwamba Valley, 6,500 ft.,
t 3; both xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards).
Distribution: Ruwenzori.
LIMACODIDAE
Paryphanta tenuifascia Hering
Paryphanta tenuifascia Hering, 1937, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B)6 : 82, 85, pl. 1 : 8.
RUWENZORI: Bugoye, 4,500 ft., §—10.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3; Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 4-12.1x.1952
(Fletcher), 3.
Parapluda invitabilis (Wallengren)
Heterogenea invitabilis Wallengren, 1860, Wien. ent. Monatschr. 4 : 44.
Apluda similis Distant, 1897, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6)20 : 204.
Parapluda invitabilis Wallengren, Janse, 1964, Moths of South Africa, 7 : 67, figs.
UGANDA: Bundibugyo, 3,440 ft., 22.viii-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: W. Uganda; E. Congo (Leopoldville); Tanzania; Zambia; Rhodesia; Natal;
Transvaal; Cape Province.
Parapluda incincta (Hampson)
Apluda incincta Hampson, 1909, Trans. zool. Soc. Lond. 19(2) : 132, pl. 4 : 25.
Apluda schaliphlebia Hampson, 1910, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8)6 : 147.
RUWENZORI: Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 20-21.viii.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Uganda; Kenya; Zambia.
Ctenolita anacompa Karsch (Figures 47, 48)
Ctenolita anacompa Karsch, 1896, Ent. Nachr. 22 : 273.
Ctenolita anacompa Karsch, Hering, 1928, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14 : 452,
peed:
Limacodidae
RUWENZORI: Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 20-21.viii.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
UGANDA: Bundibugyo, 3,440 ft., 22.viii-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 2 3.
Distribution: Fernando Po; Sierra Leone; Ivory Coast; Ghana; Togo; Nigeria; Congo
(Leopoldville); Uganda.
A closely similar species, represented in the British Museum (Natural History) by a series of 11
males from Kaimosi, N.E. of Lake Victoria, differs structurally in the greatly reduced scobina-
tion of the manica, dense in anacompa, and in the more caudally placed, straight not hooked,
lateral spine on the aedeagus (Figure 49); the series is conspecific with the type of Miresa melano-
sticta Bethune-Baker from Kamilolo, Nandi, N.E. of Lake Victoria. Miresa melanosticta is here
transferred to the genus Ctenolita, comb.n.
The species described and illustrated by Janse (1964 : 95, figures) as Cteiolita melanosticta
appears to be C. habernichti Wichgraf; this is a distinct species and not a synonym of melanosticta
as Janse suggests.
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Latoia chrysopa sp.n. (Figures 22, 50)
3 38-40 mm.: Frons, palpus, outer surface of legs and pectus bister; inner surface of legs and
abdomen antimony yellow; thorax Rinnemann’s green. Upperside: fore wing Rinnemann’s
green patterned with vinaceous buff suffused with bister; hind wing antimony yellow, cilia,
termen and veins in distal half of wing bister (Figure 22). Underside of both wings antimony
yellow, apical area and termen of fore wing, costal area and termen of hind wing suffused with
bister.
Genitalia (Figure 50): Aedeagus slightly bulbous at base; vesica without cornutus.
A montane rain forest species closely similar in colour and pattern to Latoia carnapi (Karsch).
Differs externally in its appreciably smaller size, carnapi having a wingspan in the male of 55-60
mm.; differs structurally in the genitalia in the shape of the valve and especially in the shape of the
aedeagus, which in carnapi is spirally coiled at base and has two, slender, tapered supporting rods
at apex (Figure $1).
[RWANDA]: Ruanda Dist., Lake Kivu, Rugege Forest, 7,000 ft., xii.1921 (T. A. Barns), 2 3,
including holotype which bears additional label, Limacodidae genitalia slide No. 71; Ruanda
Dist., Kabira Forest, 12 miles north of Usumbura, north end L. Tanganyika, 7,000 ft.,i.1924, wet
season (T. A. Barns), 1 3.
RUWENZORI: Mahoma River, 6,700 ft., 13-16.viii.1952 (Fletcher), 2 3.
KENYA: Molo [8,065 ft.] xii.1961 (J. Start), 1 3.
Latoia concavata (Strand) stat.n. (Figures 13, 53)
\ Parasa trapezoidea var. concavata Strand, 1913, Arch. Naturgesch. 78 A12 : 36.
UGANDA: Semliki Forest, 2,850 ft., 22.vili-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Cameroun; Spanish Guinea; Congo (Leopoldville); Uganda.
Externally closely similar to Latoia trapezoidea (Aurivillius,1899 : 253), but differing in the
male genitalia in the longer, more slender uncus, the slender, blade-like gnathos, the strongly
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sclerotized and scobinate area at the base of the dorsal margin of the valve and the almost straight
aedeagus with a short spine at one side near the apex (Figure 53).
In L. trapezoidea, known only from Cameroun, the uncus is short with a broadly rounded apex,
the perimeter of the apex strongly sclerotized, the gnathos is broad but narrowed medially, the
valves are simple, slender and tapered and the aedeagus is sinuous with a strongly sclerotized,
roudned apex extending to a hooked tip.
Parasa mesochloris (Hampson, 1910 : 146) is closely similar to trapezoidea, possibly a subspecies
of it; it is represented in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) from Ghana and
Nigeria. In the male genitalia (Figure 52) the gnathos is not narrowed medially and the sclerotized
apex of the aedeagus is crenulate, not rounded.
Janse (1964 : 117, figs.) records and illustrates what he believes to be trapezoidea from Rhodesia,
but his description of the aedeagus accords neither with the aedeagus of the type of trapezoidea nor
with that of mesochloris and evidently represents a distinct taxon.
Latoia sp.
RUWENZORI: Bwamba Pass (west side), 5,500-7,500 ft., xii.1934-i.1935 (Edwards), Limaco-
didae genitalia slide No. 75, 1 3.
Closely similar to, possibly a subspecies of L. urda (Druce). Terminal brown pattern of fore
wing much reduced; hind wing faintly tinged with green. Valve narrower and aedeagus more
slender than those of urda.
There is a similar specimen in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) labelled:
E. CONGO: Kisenyi to Rutschuru, Limacodidae genitalia slide No. 76.
Latoia vivida (Walker)
Nyssia vivida Walker, 1865, List Lep. Ins. B.M. 32 : 478.
Parasa arcuata Karsch, 1896, Ent. Nachr. 22 : 277.
Parasa neumanni Karsch, 1896, Ent. Nachr. 22 : 278.
Parasa vivida Walker, Hering, 1928, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14 : 463, pl.74 : e.
Latoia vivida Walker, Janse, 1964, Moths of South Africa, 7 : 118, figs.
RUWENZORI: Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 4-12.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
UGANDA: Bundibugyo, 3,440 ft., 22.vili-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 3 3.
Distribution: Continental Africa from approximately 10°N. to 30°S. latitude.
Latoia nana Holland
Latoia nana Holland, 1893, Ent. News, 4 : 103, pl. 7 : 15.
Parasa decolor Karsch, 1899, Ent. Nachr. 25 : 141. Syn.n.
UGANDA: Bundibugyo, 3440 ft., 22.viii-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Sierra Leone; Ivory Coast; Ghana; Nigeria; Cameroun; Central African Re-
public.
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Latoia cinnamomarea sp.n. (Figures 14, $4, 55)
3 29-34 mm.; 9 34 mm. Male: Pectus, outer surface of legs, palpus, frons and patagia seal brown
(a dark vinaceous brown); thorax and abdomen pinkish buff mixed with ochraceous tawny.
Upperside: fore wing fawn colour; medial area posterior of cubitus raw sienna; distal half of medial
area between radius and costa varyingly marked with raw sienna, with a spot in one example,
with a few scales only in another; postmedial fascia slender, seal brown; remainder of proximal
half of wing and cilia suffused with seal brown; hind wing pinkish buff to ochraceous tawny,
cilia seal brown (Figure 14). Underside of wings cinnamon buff, costa and cilia of hind wing,
greater part of fore wing, except posterior of vein Curb, suffused with seal brown.
Male genitalia: Valve tapered; ventral margin sinuous; vesica without cornutus (Figures
54, 55):
Female externally similar to male, but medial area of fore wing entirely raw sienna.
Externally the fore wing pattern, with the conspicuous patch of raw sienna in the posterior
half of the medial area in the male and the entire raw sienna medial area in the female, and
structurally the form of the valve in the male genitalia are diagnostic.
KENYA: Mt. Kinangop, 8,000 ft., x.1934 (Edwards), Limacodidae genitalia slide No. 105, 1 3;
Escarpment, B.E.A. [British East Africa], iii-iv.1901, 6,500-8,000 ft. (Doherty), 3 3 including
holotype, 1 9.
Prolatoia eburata sp.n. (Figures 20, 56, $7)
S$ 25 mm.: Antenna bipectinate; pectinations three times as long as diameter of shaft in basal
three-fourths, then shortening apicad; basal three-fourths of scape drab, apical fourth ivory
yellow. Hind tibia with two pairs of spurs. Pectus and inner surface of legs ivory yellow; outer
surface of legs and remainder of vestiture bister. Upperside: fore wing bister, intensely so in
discal area; some drab scaling anterior and posterior of disc; some ochraceous tawny scaling at
one-third inner margin; an ivory yellow spot in subcubital fold in proximal fourth of wing;
hind wing bister (Figure 20). Underside of each wing bister.
Genitalia (Figures 56, 57). Uncus curved slightly dorsad; aedeagus sinuous with curved,
spined apex.
Externally the conspicuously marked wing pattern and structurally the form of the uncus and
aedeagus are diagnostic.
RUWENZORI: Kilembe, 4,500 ft., xii.1934-i.1935 (Edwards), Limacodidae genitalia slide No.
106, holotype 3.
Phorma pepon Karsch
Phorma pepon Karsch, 1896, Ent. Nachr. 22 : 280.
Thosea aurifrons Bethune-Baker, t911, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8)7 : 567. Syn.n.
Thosea chloris Fawcett, 1917, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1917 : 245, pl. 1 : 5. Syn.n.
UGANDA: Semliki Forest, 2,850 ft., 22.viti-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Gambia; Sierra Leone; Ghana; Togo; Nigeria; Fernando Po; Cameroun;
Angola; Congo (Leopoldville); Uganda.
334 Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952. Volume I, Number 8
Sporetolepis venusta Hering
Sporetolepis venusta Hering, 1928, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14 : 455, pl. 73 : g.
Chrysamma diachrysa Tams, 1929, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley, 3 : 171, pl. 8 : 9. Syn.n.
UGANDA: Bundibugyo, 3,440 ft., 22. viii-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 2 3.
Distribution: Cameroun; Congo (Leopoldville).
Narosa bractea sp.n. (Figures 18, 19, 58, 59)
a
3 18-21 mm.; 2 22-24 mm.: Frons, vertex and patagia white; remainder of vestiture white
irrorate with bister, tegulae and crests tipped with bister. Upperside; fore wing white suffused
with ochraceous buff at apex and posterior of radial vein and vein Sc3; cubitus, medial, cubital
and anal veins bister; cilia and inner margin irrorate with bister. Hind wing white; termen
slenderly, and anal angle broadly suffused with bister and a little ochraceous buff. Underside:
fore wing white; proximal three-fourths of costal area densely bister; remainder of wing suffused
with ochraceous buff, densely in apical area, lightly elsewhere; cilia irrorate with bister. Hind
wing white; termen very slenderly ochraceous buff, cilia irrorate with bister.
Male genitalia (Figures 58, 59): Anellus with stout, paired, spined basal processes and apically
ornamented with long, stout, deciduous spines (lost from one side of figured preparation);
vesica densely spined.
A strikingly distinct species characterized by the sharply defined pattern of bister-coloured
veins on a background of ochraceous buff on the upperside of the fore wing.
UGANDA: Kigezi, Impenetrable Forest, Kanungu, §,000 ft., v.1952 (J..A. Burgess), 2 3 including
holotype which bears additional label, Limacodidae genitalia slide No. 65; Bundibugyo, 3,440 ft.,
22.vili-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3; Jinja, Mariba Forest, x.1962 (R. H. Carcasson), 1 9.
[cHANA] GoLD coast: [Bibiani] Bibianaha, 700 ft., 1912 (H. G. F. Spurrell), 1 &.
Tetraphleba ruficeps (Hampson)
Tetraphleps ruficeps Hampson, 1909, Trans. zool. Soc. Lond. 19(2) : 133, pl. 4 : 36.
Thosea orea Tams, 1929, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley, 3 : 168, pl. 8 : 14. Syn.n.
RUWENZORI: Mahoma River, 6,700 ft., 13 -16.viii.1952 (Fletcher), 3 3.
Distribution: W. Uganda (Ruwenzori); E. Congo (Leopoldville), Kivu.
The species keys to Chrysamma Karsch in Hering’s key to the African genera of Limacodidae
(1955) and to Ctenocompa Karsch in Janse’s key to the African genera of Limacodidae (1964).
Distinct from both in the structure of the male genitalia; when the female is known anew genus
will probably prove necessary.
The name Tetraphleba Strand, 1921 replaces Tetraphleps Hampson, 1892 nec Tetraphleps Fieber,
1861.
Limacodidae
Omocena syrtis (Schaus & Clements)
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Miresa syrtis Schaus & Clements, 1893, On a collection of Sierra Leone Lepidoptera, 28, pl. 2 : 3.
Ctenocompa ganale Pagenstecher, 1903, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 56 : 26, pl. t : 9.
UGANDA: Semliki Forest, 2,850 ft., 22.viii—3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 2 3.
Distribution: Senegal; Sierra Leone; Ivory Coast; Ghana; Nigeria; Cameroun: Central
African Republic; Angola; Congo (Leopoldville); Zambia.
Thoseidea lineapunctata (Bethune-Baker) (Figures 21, 64, 65)
Thosea lineapunctata Bethune-Baker, 1911, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8)7 : 567.
Thoseidea lineapunctata Bethune-Baker, Hering, 1955, Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 107 : 224.
UGANDA: Bundibugyo, 3,440 ft., 22.viii-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 3 3.
Distribution: Angola.
Ctenocompa hilda (Druce)
Miresa hilda Druce [1888], Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1887 : 682
Ctenocompa hilda Druce, Hering, 1928, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14 : 453, pl.
73.236.
UGANDA: Semliki Forest, 2,850 ft., 22.viii-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Nigeria; Cameroun; Gabon; Angola; W. Kenya (Kakamega).
Trachyptena spinosata sp.n. (Figures 16, 17, 66, 67)
$19 mm. : Palpus, frons, vertex and patagia bister, tips of scales pinkish buff; thorax and abdomen
pinkish buff. Upperside: fore wing pinkish buff lightly irrorate with bister in holotype (Figure
17), densely irrorate in medial area with warm sepia and bister in paratype (Figure 16); hind wing
warm sepia, cilia pinkish buff. Underside of wings pinkish buff, costa of hind wing and costal
area of fore wing irrorate with bister; outline of cell and veins distad of cell on fore wing bister.
Genitalia (Figures 66, 67). Process at base of dorsal margin of valve bearing a cluster of spines;
a cluster of two or three spines situate medially in basal fourth of valve; vesica spined as illustrated
(Figure 67).
Externally similar to Trachyptena agbaja (Bethune-Baker, 1915 : 200); differs structurally in
the male genitalia in the shorter process at the base of the dorsal margin of the valve, in the
presence of a small cluster of spines in the basal fourth of the valve and in the appreciably greater
number and arrangement of the cornuti on the vesica.
UGANDA: Bundibugyo, 3,440 ft., 22.viii-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 2 3 including holotype, which
bears additional label, Limacodidae genitalia slide No. 95.
Narosana agbaja Bethune-Baker, type-species of the genus Narosana Bethune-Baker (1915 :
200), is closely similar in structure to Trachyptena rufa Bethune-Baker, the type-species of Trachy-
ptena Bethune-Baker (1911 : 572). Narosana agbaja is here transferred to Trachyptena (comb.n.)
and Narosana thus becomes a junior synonym of Trachyptena. Syn.n.
336 Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952. Volume I, Number 8
Uniserrata holobrunnea Janse (1964. : 34, Figs.), the type-species of Uniserrata Janse (1964 : 33),
is also closely related to Trachyptena rufa Bethune-Baker and is here transferred to Trachyptena
(comb.n.); Uniserrata thus becomes a junior synonym of Trachyptena. Syn.n.
Trachyptena nigromaculata magna Hering (1933 : 213) has a male genitalia with deeply cleft,
bilobate valves; the dorsal arm is membranous and tapered, the ventral arm sclerotized and
tapered, differing markedly from those of T. nigromaculata Hering (1928 : 466). Trachyptena
magna Hering is therefore accorded specific status. Stat.n.
Pseudomantria seminigra sp.n. (Figures 15, 61-63)
$ 19 mm.: Palpus, frons, vertex, patagia and prothorax orange buff; remainder of vestiture pale
orange yellow (Figure 15). Upperside: fore wing pale orange yellow; hind wing fuscous, cilia pale
orange yellow. Underside: termen, cilia and inner margin of fore wing and cilia of hind wing
pale orange yellow; remainder of wings fuscous.
Genitalia (Figures 61, 62). Proximal half of dorsal margin of valve folded; vesica without:
cornutus.
Externally similar to P. flava Bethune-Baker (1911), redescribed and figured by Hering (1928 :
466, pl. 75 : b) under the name Pseudomantria flavissima (syn.n.); differs in having both surfaces
of the hind wing fuscous instead of yellow. Differs structurally in the genitalia in the simple,
folded valve; in flava the base of the valve bears an ovate, spined process and the aedeagus is
shorter and stouter (Figure 60).
A female from Tambura, S. Sudan measuring 20 mm. in wingspan, identical in colour and
pattern with the holotype male, is provisionally associated with seminigra, but not regarded as a
paratype. There is a thorn-like signum on the bursa copulatrix. (Figure 63).
In erecting Pseudomantria, Bethune-Baker (1911 : $72) overlooked the presence of a vein in the
fore wing, stating vein 10 to be absent. Veins 7-10 (R2-Rs5) are on a long stalk arising from the
upper angle of the cell; veins 8-+-9 (R3-++-R4) separate shortly before the termen. The antenna is
lamellate, flattened dorso-ventrally and evenly scaled on all surfaces, not slightly serrate as
originally described.
UGANDA: Semliki Valley, Hot springs, 2750 ft., 28.viii-1.ix.1952 (Fletcher), Limacodidae
genitalia slide No. 82, holotype 3.
SUDAN: Southern Bahr-el-Ghazal, Limacodidae genitalia slide No. 85, 1 9, provisionally
associated.
DREPANIDAE
Spidia goniata Watson
Spidia fenestrata goniata Watson, 1957, Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 26 : 118, figures 8-10.
Spidia goniata Watson, Watson, 1965, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.), Suppl. 3 : ror, figures
159-162.
RU WENZORI: Mobuku Valley, 7,800 ft., 29-3 1.xii.193 4 (Edwards), 1 3 (paratype) ; Nyinabitaba,
8,650 ft., 7-13.vili.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3 (holotype).
Distribution: Ruwenzori.
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Spidia smithi (Warren) ? subsp.
Phalacrothyris smithi Warren, 1902, Novit. zool. 9 : 488.
Spidia smithi Warren, Watson, 1965, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.), Suppl. 3
172-175, pl. 9 : 305.
UGANDA: Masaka (Edwards), 1 3.
Distribution: Uganda; Congo.
: 106, figures
Isospidia angustipennis torulus Watson
Isospidia angustipennis torulus Watson, 1965, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.), Suppl. 3
figures 222, 224, pl. 14 : 320.
UGANDA: Fort Portal, 5,000 ft., xii.1934-i.1935 (Edwards), 1 3 (paratype).
Distribution: Uganda.
> 135,
URANIIDAE
URANIINAE
Dissoprumna erycinaria (Guenée)
_ Micronia erycinaria Guenée, 1857, Hist. nat. Ins., Spec. gén. Lép. 10 : 30.
_ Dissoprumna erycinaria Guenée, Gaede, 1928, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14 : 390,
pleo7 : £
UGANDA: Mpanga Forest, 25.i.1935 (Edwards), 1 3.
Distribution: W. Africa, Senegambia to Cameroun; Congo (Leopoldville); Uganda.
EPIPLEMINAE
Epiplema Herrich-Schaffer
The generic name Epiplema has been used in a very broad sense, following the usage in the
_ existing literature; the author is well aware that the species nymphaeata Warren, triumbrata
Warren and sporocosma sp.n. and the species barbara Warren, semipicta Warren and baliocosma
sp.n. appear from the genitalia of both sexes to form distinct groups, but it is believed that new
_ genera for this subfamily should be founded in a revision rather than in a short faunal work.
Epiplema nymphaeata Warren : subsp. (Figures 23, 24, 68, 69)
Epiplema nymphaeata Warren, 1902, Novit. zool. 9 : 490.
| RUWENZORI: Kilembe, 4,500 ft., 1 2; Namwamba Valley, 6,000 ft., 3 g, 1 9, all xii.1934-
1.1935 (Edwards); Mubuku Valley, 5,250-6,000 ft., 11.viii.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3, 2 9; Mahoma
River, 6,700 ft., 13-16.viii.1952 (Fletcher), 6 3, 3 2; Mubuku Valley, 78,000 ft., 29-31.x11.1934
(Edwards), 1 3, 2 9; Nyinabitaba, 8,650 ft., 7-13.vii.1952 (Fletcher), 1 9.
Distribution: Kenya (Mau Escarpment).
338 Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952. Volume I, Number 8
The type series consists of thirty specimens from 6,500-9,000 ft. on the Mau Escarpment in
Kenya. The white ground colour of the upperside of the wings is very sparsely marked with
bister; in only four specimens is the medial area of the fore wing and the postmedial fascia of the
hind wing defined (Figure 23). _
In the Ruwenzori series only the female from Nyinabitaba (8,650 ft.) and a male and the female
from the upper levels of the Mubuku Valley (7—8,000 ft.) match the type series. In the remainder,
the upperside of the wings is irrorate with bister, the medial area clearly defined, often with dense
bister patches developed in the discal area and at the inner margin, and the posterior half of the
postmedial fascia of the hind wing is sharply marked (Figure 24).
In the male genitalia, the inner tapered process on the valve is broader-based in the Ruwenzori
specimens than in the type (Figure 68). The female genitalia of the Kenya and the Ruwenzori
series appear to be identical (Figure 69).
Epiplema sporocosma sp.n. (Figures 25, 73, 74)
3 20 mm.: Frons bister. Vertex white. Thorax and abdomen white suffused with pale pinkish
buff. Upperside of wings cartridge buff lightly irrorate with drab and bister; proximal half of
inner margin of fore wing suffused with pale pinkish buff; ante- and postmedial fasciae on each
wing ochraceous tawny; medial area of each wing irregularly suffused with drab; terminal area
of fore wing, between veins R4 and Cura, drab, edged proximally with interneural black spots
(Figure 25).
Genitalia: Valve with two tapered processes, one from two-thirds ventral margin, one from
near one-third ventral margin; vesica with three or four thorn-like cornuti (Figures 73, 74).
Closely related to E. triumbrata Warren (1902 : 491), which differs externally in the clean
white ground colour of the wings and darker and more sharply marked pattern (Figure 26).
In triumbrata the more caudal of the two tapered processes on the valve is placed medially in the
basal third and the vesica has two cornuti, one thorn-like, one bifid at the apex (Figures 75, 76).
RUWENZzoRI: Mahoma River, 6,700 ft., 13 -16.viii.1952 (Fletcher), holotype labelled Uraniidae
genitalia slide no. 30, paratype labelled slide no. 18.
Epiplema barbara Warren (Figure 27)
Epiplema barbara Warren, 1899, Novit. zool. 6 : 10.
RUWENZORI: Bwamba Pass (west side), 5,500-7,500 ft., xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 1 3.
Distribution: Uganda; Malawi.
Epiplema baliocosma sp.n. (Figures 29, 30, 77-79)
3 24 mm.; 2 30 mm.: Termen of fore wing incurved between vein Rs and M3; termen of hind
wing with short tails at veins Rs and M3, crenulate between. Vestiture dusky drab. Upperside:
fore wing dusky drab; ante- and postmedial fasciae, broad at costa then becoming slender, and
a short, arc-shaped fascia parallel with incurved part of termen, black edged with sparse ochra-
ceous tawny scaling; cilia cinnamon brown mixed with ochraceous tawny and fuscous. Hind
sh vated
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wing: proximal half drab to dusky drab; distal half a mixture of dusky drab, cinnamon brown
and ochraceous tawny, conspicuous as a pale band distad of the postmedial fascia; transverse
fasciae acutely angled in discal area but not extending to costa, black edged with ochraceous
tawny; white, triangular subterminal spots, edged distally with black, one in each of the three
interspaces between veins Rs and M3; a black subterminal streak in the interspace between veins
M3 and Cuta; cilia as on fore wing. Underside of wings light drab striate with black; distal half
of costa and apical area vinaceous buff, tornal area of hind wing ochraceous tawny.
Male genitalia (Figures 77, 78): Uncus bifid, each arm short, tapered and sclerotized. Arms of
enathos blunt, not meeting. Mid-ventral margin of valve with broad, densely scaled, incurved
process connected with dorsal margin by a slender /\-shaped, heavily sclerotized band, the
dorsal extremity of which bears a short, digitate process. Vesica with two tapered cornuti.
Female genitalia (Figure 79): Ductus bursae dilate at one side medially and sclerotized;
bursa copulatrix with a small, stellate signum.
Differs externally from the related E. semipicta Warren in its larger size and conspicuous, white,
subterminal spots on the upperside of the hind wing and in the ochraceous tawny tornal area of
the underside of the hind wing; differs structurally in the presence of a heavily sclerotized
A -shaped bar across the valve and in the presence of two tapered cornuti on the vesica.
[KENYA] B. E. Africa: Mile 478 on Uganda Rly. [Molo, 8,065 ft.], 20.xi.1900 (C. S. Betton),
Uraniidae genitalia slide no. 22, holotype J; E. Quaso, Masai, 22.x.1900 (C. S. Bettoi), 1 9.
RUWENZORI: Nyinabitaba, 8,650 ft., 7-13.vii.1952 (Fletcher), 1 9.
Epiplema arenosa sp.n. (Figures 28, 70-72)
3 19-22 mm.; 9 26 mm.: Fore wing lacking one radial vein. Hind wing lacking vein M2;
veins At and A2 stalked; anal fold present in both sexes, more strongly developed in male.
Wings without projections or tails. Male: Frons drab. Vestiture cinnamon buff. Upperside: wings
cinnamon buff lightly irrorate with bister in medial area; base of costa on fore wing drab and
subterminal area, between veins Rs and Cuta, marked with four interneural, bister spots in form
of an arc; anal fold on hind wing light buff. Underside of wings pinkish buff.
Female similar, but lacking drab colour at base of costa on fore wing (Figure 28).
Male genitalia, Figures 71, 72.
Female genitalia, Figure 70.
Distinct among the Ethiopian Epipleminae in colour and wing shape, being reminiscent of
certain species of Hydrelia in the Geometridae.
Placed tentatively in the genus Epiplema.
RUWENZORI: Bwamba Pass, 6,500 ft., xii.1934-i.1935 (Edwards), Uraniidae genitalia slide
no. 13, holotype 3.
UGANDA: Toro, Mpanga Forest, 4,800 ft., 16.xi.1911 (S. A. Neave), 1 3.
[kenya] B. E. Africa: Mile 478 Uganda Rly. [Molo, 8,065 ft.,] 25.xi.1900 (C. S. Betton), 19
+.
340 Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952. Volume I, Number 8
Dirades angulifera Warren (Figures 31, 32)
Dirades angulifera Warren, 1902, Novit. zool. 9 : 489.
KENYA: Mt. Kinangop, 8,500 ft., 25.x.1934 (J. Ford), 2 3.
Distribution: Ethiopia, above 8,000 ft.; Kenya, above 6,000 ft.
Tentatively associated are four specimens from Mt. Cameroon, one from 5,000 ft., three from
7,400 ft.
Represented on the island of Sao Thomé by Dirades angulata (Talbot, 1929), described as a
Gathynia. Comb.n.
Pseudodirades sp.
RUWENZORI: Bugoye, 4,500 ft., 5—10.1x.1952 (Fletcher), Uraniidae genitalia slide no. 19, 19.
Externally similar to Pseudodirades lactea (Warren), figured by Janse (1932, pl. 1 : 11). Differs
structurally from the female holotype of lactea in the genitalia.
LASIOCAMPIDAE
Lechriolepis sp.
RUWENZORI: Kilembe, 4,500 ft., xii.1934-3.1935 (Edwards), 1 9.
Closely similar externally to L. jacksoni (Bethune-Baker, t91t), known from Entebbe and
Kampala; males of the Kilembe population are required to establish its identity.
Lechriolepis leucostigma (Hampson)
Chrysopsyche leucostigma Hampson, 1909, Trans. zool. Soc. Lond. 19 (2) : 131, pl. 4: 41.
Lechriolepis leucostigma Hampson, Aurivillius, 1927, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde,
U4: 200; ply 20°2k
RUWENZORI: Bwamba Pass (west side), 5,500-7,500 ft., xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 3 3.
Distribution: Ruwenzori.
Lechriolepis sp.
RUWENZORI: Mahoma River, 6,700 ft., 13-16.viii.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Philotherma leucocyma (Hampson) comb.n.
Anadiasa leucocyma Hampson, 1909, Trans. zool. Soc. Lond. 19 (2) : 131, pl. 4 : 31.
Pseudolyra leucocyma Hampson, Aurivillius, 1927, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde,
14 2 264,opl. 37: ds
RUWENZORI: Namwamba Valley, 6,500 ft., xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 1 3; Mahoma River,
6,700 ft., 13-16.viii.1952 (Fletcher), 4 3; Nyinabitaba, 8,650 ft., 7-13.vii.1952 (Fletcher), 2 3.
Distribution: W. Uganda; Rwanda; Burundi; N. E. Tanzania.
Lasiocampidae 341
Placed tentatively in Pseudolyra by Aurivillius, but the structure of the genitalia appears to be
congeneric with that of the type species of Philotherma, P. jacchus Méschler, 1887. Anadiasa
leucocyma Hampson is therefore transferred to the genus Philotherma.
Euwallengrenia nom.nov.
The generic name Olyra Wallengren, 1865 is preoccupied by Olyra M’Clelland, 1842. Euwallen-
grenia is proposed as a replacement name for Olyra Wallengren.
Euwallengrenia reducta sublineata (Walker)
Odonestis reducta Walker, 1855, List Lep. Ins. B.M. 6 : 1411.
Poecilocampa sublineata Walker, 1869, Proc. nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, I : 342.
Olyra distantii Dewitz, 1881, Nova Acta Acad. Caesar Leop. Carol. 42 : 79.
Olyra pallida Aurivillius, 1925, Ark. Zool. 17 A32 : 16.
Pachygastria niris Druce, 1884, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1884 : 228, pl. 17: 6.
RUWENZORI: Bugoye, 1,200 m., 17.11.1948 (Holi), 1 Q in Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum,
Stockholm; Kilembe, 4,500 ft., xii-1934~-i.1935 (Edwards), 1 3; Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 4-6.vii.1952
(Fletcher), 3; ibid., 4-12.ix.1952, I 3.
UGANDA: Fort Portal, 5,000 ft., xii-1934-4.1935 (Edwards), 3 3.
Distribution: Sierra Leone; Ivory Coast; Ghana; Nigeria; Togo; Angola; Central African
Republic; Sudan; E. Congo (Leopoldville); Uganda; Kenya; Tanzania; Malawi. Represented in
Rhodesia, Natal and Cape Province by the nominate subspecies.
Streblote fusca (Aurivillius)
Taragama fusca Aurivillius, 1905, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1905 : 316, pl. 16: 8.
UGANDA: Fort Portal, 5,000 ft., xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 1 3.
Distribution: Kenya; Uganda.
Streblote craterum Tams (Figure 34)
Streblote craterum Tams, 1929, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley 3 : 176; T. A. Barns, 1923, Across the
Great Craterland to the Congo, Figure 82, nos. 9, 14.
RUWENZORI: Mahoma River, 6,700 ft., 13-16.viii.1952 (Fletcher), 2 3; Nyinabitaba, 8,650 ft.,
7-13.vii.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: E. Congo (Leopoldville), Kivu; Rwanda.
In the two males from the Mahoma River in the lower level of the montane rain forest, the
vestiture is tawny; the fore wing is entirely tawny proximal of and irregularly banded tawny
distal of the medial area (Figure 34), matching one of the six male specimens from the Rugege
Forest in Rwanda, the type locality. The male from Nyinabitaba in the upper levels of the montane
rain forest is rather greater in wingspan than those from the lower levels, measuring 38 mm.
against 34-35 mm. and is intermediate in colour between those and the typical series.
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342 Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952. Volume I, Number 8
Streblote graberii (Dewitz) : subsp. (Figure 36)
Pachypasa graberii Dewitz, 1881, Nova Acta Acad. Caesar Leop. Carol. 42 : 72, pl. 1 : 3.
Taragama guinearum Strand, 1912, Arch. Naturgesch. 78 At : 85, 88, 91.
RUWENZORI: Mahoma River, 6,700 ft. [montane rain forest], 13-16.vili.1952 (Fletcher),
5d, 1%.
The species is represented in the collection of the B.M.(N.H.) by three typical examples, one
male and two females, from Bitji, Cameroun. Short series of uniformly marked specimens from
Rwanda, W. Uganda and Tanzania (Usambara), agreeing in structure with but differing in
pattern from the Cameroun examples, suggest that some degree of geographic variation may
occur. In the Ruwenzori males the russet brown fore wing is less densely irrorate with fuscous
and the hind wing is pinkish buff, only a little suffused with fuscous terminad (Figure 36); in the
fore wing of the female the ante- and postmedial fasciae are defined in fuscous and the area distad
of the postmedial fascia is markedly less heavily suffused with fuscous; the hind wing is tilleul
buff at base, darkening terminad.
Streblote distinguenda (Aurivillius) : subsp.
Taragama distinguenda Aurivillius, 1905, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1905 : 315, pl. 16 : 13.
RUWENZORI: Kilembe, 4,500 ft. [savannah-cultivated region], xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 1 9.
Differs from the nominotypical distinguenda from South Africa in the paler colour of the wings.
The ground colour of the fore wing is cinnamon, that of the hind wing cartridge buff at base
shading to cinnamon at the termen. There are similar examples in the B.M.(N.H.) from Uganda
(Kampala) and from Tanzania (Bukoba).
Streblote eccrita sp.n. (Figures 35, 80)
3 38 mm.: Palpus, tibiae and tegulae ochraceous tawny; remainder of vestiture pinkish buff to
pinkish cinnamon. Scape cartridge buff irrorate with pinkish buff; pectinations fuscous. Upper-
side. Fore wing ochraceous tawny proximad of slightly sinuous, fuscous black postmedial fascia,
which extends from apex to three-fifths inner margin; a band of cinnamon buff with a dentate _
distal margin tapering apical is situate distad of the postmedial fascia; terminal fifth vinaceous |
cinnamon, edged proximally with fuscous scaling between veins; a white arcuate streak on vein |
-Cutb in proximal fourth; cilia fuscous mixed with vinaceous cinnamon and tipped with cartridge
buff. Hind wing vinaceous cinnamon in distal fourth, paling proximal and along anal margin;
cilia as on fore wing (Figure 35). Underside similar to upperside, but fuscous black postmedial
fascia on fore wing broad and diffuse from apex to vein RS, then failing.
Externally closely similar to S. aculeata (Walker), but differing in the form of the band between
the postmedial fascia and the terminal fifth on the upperside of the fore wing, which in aculeata
is drab edged with white and tapers to a point at the inner margin. Structurally closer to S.
craterum Tams, from which it differs in the form of the eighth sternum (Figure 80).
RUWENzORI: Nyinabitaba, 8,650 ft., 7-13.vii.1952 (Fletcher), genitalia slide Lasiocampidae
no. 753, holotype 3.
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Leipoxais tamsi sp.n. (Figures 33, 81)
3 38 mm.: Pectus, legs and palpus madder brown to hessian brown; vertex and patagia cinnamon
brown; scape, thorax and abdomen testaceous; pectinations light buff tipped with fuscous.
Upperside. Fore wing testaceous from seven-eighths costa to two-fifths vein Cu1b and along
inner margin; remainder of wing and all veins ochraceous tawny; discal spot white ringed with
fuscous; postmedial and subterminal fasciae fuscous, faintly defined; termen faintly blotched
with fuscous between veins; cilia testaceous mixed with fuscous and tipped with cartridge buff.
Hind wing testaceous, a little paler at base; cilia as on fore wing (Figure 33). Underside. Fore
wing ochraceous tawny in anterior proximal fourth, fading to pinkish buff in posterior proximal
fourth and shading to testaceous in distal half; terminal area suffused with fuscous; cilia as on
upperside. Hind wing madder brown except anal fold, which is tilleul buff suffused with fuscous;
postmedial and subterminal fasciae black, failing before anal fold; cilia as on upperside.
Genitalia as in Figure 81, but vesica without cornuti.
Related to L. peraffinis Holland (1893), differing externally in colour and structurally in the
form of the eighth sternum and the genitalia.
A second male, from Rwanda, differs externally in having the ochraceous tawny parts of the
fore wing a little suffused with testaceous and structurally in the presence of four short, slender
cornuti on the vesica, three at the left side and one at the right side; possibly deciduous cornuti
(Figure 81).
It is with pleasure that I name this species in honour of Mr. W. H. T. Tams, in token apprecia-
tion of the help that he has given me in working out the Ruwenzori Lasiocampidae.
RUWENZORI: Nyinabitaba, 8,650 ft., 7-13.viii.1952 (Fletcher), genitalia slide Lasiocampidae
No. 747, holotype 3.
Provisionally associated with L. tamsi:
[RWANDA]: Ruanda Dist., Lake Kivu, Rugege Forest, 8,000 ft., xii.1921 (T. A. Barns),
genitalia slide No. 748, 1 3.
Pseudometa castanea Hampson
Pseudometa castanea Hampson, 1909, Trans. zool. Soc. Lond. 19(2) : 130, pl. 4 : 28.
Pseudometa castanea Hampson, Aurivillius, 1927 in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14 : 262,
plie37 : b.
UGANDA: Semliki Forest, 2,850 ft., 22.vili—3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
RUWENZORI: Kilembe, 4,500ft., xii.1934—1.193 5 (Edwards), 1 3; Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 20-21. vil.19 52
(Fletcher), 2 3; Namwamba Valley, 6,700 ft., xii.1934-4.1935 (Edwards), 2 3; Mahoma River,
6,700 ft., 13-16.viii.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: W. Uganda (Bwamba and Toro); E. Congo (Leopoldville) (E. Ituri Forest).
| ’ Pachymeta immunda (Holland) comb.n. (Figure 37)
| Lasiocampa immunda Holland, 1893, Psyche, 6 : 532.
| Mallocampa immunda Holland, Aurivillius, 1927, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14 : 273,
| pl. 39 : a.
| RUWENZORI: Bwamba Pass (West side), 5,500-7,500 ft., x11.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 4 3.
344 Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952. Volume I, Number 8
UGANDA: Bundibugyo, 3,440 ft., 22. viii-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 13; Fort Portal, 5,000 ft.,xii.1934-
i. 1935 (Edwards), 4 3.
Distribution: Ivory Coast; Ghana; Nigeria; Cameroun; Gabon; Congo (Leopoldville);
Uganda.
The male genitalia of inmunda are closely similar to those of the type species of Pachymeta,
Lebeda contraria Walker, and do not appear to be congeneric with the type species of Mallocampa,
Eutricha audea Druce. Inmunda is therefore transferred to the genus Pachymeta.
The illustration in Seitz of the male of immunda is more variegated in colour and has a larger
discal spot than any of the 44 specimens, which includes a paratype of immunda (Figure 37), in the
B. M. (N. H.).
Mallocampa punctilimbata Strand
Mallocampa punctilimbata Strand, 1912, Arch. Naturgesch. 78 A7 : 145.
Mallocampa punctilimbata Strand, Aurivillius, 1927, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde,
1422.73; pl-302e4 >).
UGANDA: Semliki Forest, 2,850 ft., 22.viii-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Guinea; Congo (Leopoldville); Cameroun; W. Uganda.
EUPTEROTIDAE
Jana preciosa Aurivillius
Jana preciosa Aurivillius, 1893, Ent. Tidskr. 14 : 207.
Jana preciosa Aurivillius, Gaede, 1927, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14 : 303, pl.
43: d.
UGANDA: Fort Portal, 5,000 ft., xii.1934-4.1935 (Edwards), 1 3.
Distribution: Cameroun; Congo (Leopoldville); Uganda; Tanzania.
Hoplojana rhodoptera (Gerstaecker)
Jana rhodoptera Gerstaecker, 1871, Arch. Naturgesch. 37 : 361.
Jana rhodoptera Gerstaecker, 1873, in Decken, Reisen in Ost-Afrika, 3(2) : 381, pl. 16: 3.
Hoplojana rhodoptera Gerstaecker, Gaede, 1927, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14 : 305,
pleases:
RUWENZORI: Bugoye, 4,500 ft., 5-10, ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3; Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 4—-12.1x.1952
(Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Tanzania (including Zanzibar); Uganda.
Examples from Rhodesia and Transvaal, externally closely similar to those from Tanzania,
differ slightly in the structure of the male genitalia and may represent a subspecies.
Hoplojana distincta Rothschild, (1917, Novit. zool. 24 : 490) approximates closely in structure
to rhodoptera and probably represents only a colour form of that species, having sharply patterned
fore wings and almost uniformly pink hind wings (Figure 38).
|
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Bombycidae, Saturniidae
BOMBYCIDAE
345
Trilocha ficicola Ormerod
Trilocha ficicola Ormerod, 1889, Notes & Descriptions of a few Injurious Farm & Fruit Insects of
South Africa, 43, figure 20.
RUWENZORI: Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 4-12.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Uganda; Kenya to Natal.
SATURNIIDAE
LUDIINAE
Ludia o. orinoptena Karsch
Ludia orinoptena Karsch, 1893, Berlin. ent. Z. 37 : 504, pl. 20 : 2.
Ludia limbobrunnea Strand, 1911, Mitt. zool. Mus. Berlin, 5(2) : 299, figure.
UGANDA: Bundibugyo, 3,440 ft., 22.viii-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3; Fort Portal, 5,000 ft., xii.
1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 1 3.
RUWENZORI: Bwamba Pass (West side), 5,500-7,500 ft., xii.1934-4.1935 (Edwards), 1 3.
Distribution: Cameroun; Gabon; Angola; Congo (Leopoldville); Uganda; Kenya; Tanzania;
Malawi. Represented in Transvaal by orinoptena monroei Jordan.
Goodia smithii oriens Hampson stat.n.
Saturnia smithii Holland, 1897, in Donaldson Smith, Through Unknown African Countries,
413, figure 13.
_ Goodia oriens Hampson, 1909, Trans. zool. Soc. Lond. 19(2) : 129, pl. 4 : 42.
RUWENZORI: Bugoye, 4,500 ft., 5—10.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 3 3; Ibanda, 4,700 ft.,4—-12.1x. 1952
(Fletcher), 5 3.
Distribution: N. W. Tanzania (Musoma & Bukoba); W. Uganda (Ankole & Toro); E.Congo
(Leopoldville), Semliki Valley.
The ochraceous coloured nominate subspecies is represented in the B. M. (N. H.) by examples
from Ethiopia (Harar) and Kenya (Voi, Kibwezi & Taveta). Specimens from N. W. Tanzania,
W. Uganda and E. Congo (Leopoldville) are suffused with fuscous to the almost complete ex-
clusion of all ochraceous colouring, matching well the type specimen of oriens, described by
Hampson from Ruwenzori. The name oriens is therefore resurrected from synonymy to represent
the darker, western subspecies.
Specimens from Arusha in Tanzania are intermediate and are for the present associated with the
nominate subspecies.
344 Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952. Volume I, Number 8
UGANDA: Bundibugyo, 3,440 ft., 22. viii—-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 13; Fort Portal, 5,000 ft.,xii.1934-
i. 1935 (Edwards), 4 3.
Distribution: Ivory Coast; Ghana; Nigeria; Cameroun; Gabon; Congo (Leopoldville);
Uganda.
The male genitalia of immunda are closely similar to those of the type species of Pachymeta,
Lebeda contraria Walker, and do not appear to be congeneric with the type species of Mallocampa,
Eutricha audea Druce. Immunda is therefore transferred to the genus Pachymeta.
The illustration in Seitz of the male of immunda is more variegated in colour and has a larger
discal spot than any of the 44 specimens, which includes a paratype of immunda (Figure 37), in the
B. M. (N. HL).
Mallocampa punctilimbata Strand
Mallocampa punctilimbata Strand, 1912, Arch. Naturgesch. 78 A7 : 145.
Mallocampa punctilimbata Strand, Aurivillius, 1927, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde,
TA? 2735-pl.a921c 2):
UGANDA: Semliki Forest, 2,850 ft., 22.viii—3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Guinea; Congo (Leopoldville); Cameroun; W. Uganda.
EUPTEROTIDAE
Jana preciosa Aurivillius
Jana preciosa Aurivillius, 1893, Ent. Tidskr. 14 : 207.
Jana preciosa Aurivillius, Gaede, 1927, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14 : 303, pl.
Aad:
UGANDA: Fort Portal, 5,000 ft., xii.1934-4.1935 (Edwards), 1 3.
Distribution: Cameroun; Congo (Leopoldville); Uganda; Tanzania.
Hoplojana rhodoptera (Gerstaccker)
Jana rhodoptera Gerstaecker, 1871, Arch. Naturgesch. 37 : 361.
Jana rhodoptera Gerstaecker, 1873, in Decken, Reisen in Ost-Afrika, 3(2) : 381, pl. 16: 3.
Hoplojana rhodoptera Gerstaecker, Gaede, 1927, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, 14 : 305,
pl. 45: d. |
RUWENZORI: Bugoye, 4,500 ft., 5—10, ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3; Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 4-12.ix.1952 |
(Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Tanzania (including Zanzibar); Uganda.
Examples from Rhodesia and Transvaal, externally closely similar to those from Tanzania,
differ slightly in the structure of the male genitalia and may represent a subspecies.
Hoplojana distincta Rothschild, (1917, Novit. zool. 24 : 490) approximates closely in structure
to rhodoptera and probably represents only a colour form of that species, having sharply patterned
fore wings and almost uniformly pink hind wings (Figure 38).
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|
Bombycidae, Saturniidae
BOMBYCIDAE
345
Trilocha ficicola Ormerod
Trilocha ficicola Ormerod, 1889, Notes & Descriptions of a few Injurious Farm & Fruit Insects of
South Africa, 43, figure 20.
RUWENZORI: Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 4-12.1x.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Uganda; Kenya to Natal.
SATURNIIDAE
LUDIINAE
Ludia o. orinoptena Karsch
Ludia orinoptena Karsch, 1893, Berlin. ent. Z. 37 : 504, pl. 20 : 2.
Ludia limbobrunnea Strand, t9t1, Mitt. zool. Mus. Berlin, 5(2) : 299, figure.
UGANDA: Bundibugyo, 3,440 ft., 22.vili-3.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3; Fort Portal, 5,000 ft., xii.
1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 1 3.
RUWENZORI: Bwamba Pass (West side), 5,500-7,500 ft., xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), 1 3.
Distribution: Cameroun; Gabon; Angola; Congo (Leopoldville); Uganda; Kenya; Tanzania;
Malawi. Represented in Transvaal by orinoptena monroei Jordan.
Goodia smithii oriens Hampson stat.n.
Saturnia smithii Holland, 1897, in Donaldson Smith, Through Unknown African Countries,
413, figure 13.
Goodia oriens Hampson, 1909, Trans. zool. Soc. Lond. 19(2) : 129, pl. 4 : 42.
RUWENZORI: Bugoye, 4,500 ft., 5—10.ix.1952 (Fletcher), 3 3; Ibanda, 4,700 ft.,4-12.1x. 1952
(Fletcher), 5 3.
Distribution: N. W. Tanzania (Musoma & Bukoba); W. Uganda (Ankole & Toro); E.Congo
(Leopoldville), Semliki Valley.
The ochraceous coloured nominate subspecies is represented in the B. M. (N. H. ) by examples
from Ethiopia (Harar) and Kenya (Voi, Kibwezi & Taveta). Specimens from N. W. Tanzania,
W. Uganda and E. Congo (Leopoldville) are suffused with fuscous to the almost complete ex-
clusion of all ochraceous colouring, matching well the type specimen of oriens, described by
Hampson from Ruwenzori. The name oriens is therefore resurrected from synonymy to represent
the darker, western subspecies.
Specimens from Arusha in Tanzania are intermediate and are for the present associated with the
nominate subspecies,
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ATTACINAE
Decachorda rosea rosea Aurivillius
Decachorda rosea Aurivillius, 1898, Ent. Tidskr. 19 : 184, figure.
RUWENZORI: banda, 4,700 ft., 4-12.1x.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3.
Distribution: Gabon; Congo (Leopoldville); Angola; Uganda; Kenya; Tanzania; Malawi;
Rhodesia.
The female type from W. Congo (Leopoldville), Mukimbungu figured by Aurivillius, is
badly rubbed; a discal spot is faintly defined on each hind wing, but none is apparent on the
fore wing. In discal spot characters the type is matched by a specimen in the B. M. (N. H.) from
Rutschuru, E. Congo (Leopoldville); other specimens of rosea from Rutschuru have a clearly
defined white, pink-ringed discal spot on each wing.
The series of 7 specimens from Uganda and E. Congo (Leopoldville) in the B. M. (N. H.)
vary in colour. In six examples the wings are predominantly yellow, varyingly irrorate with
pink; they represent ab. gaedei Dufrane and variants.
Specimens from Angola, Katanga (Congo, Leopoldville), Malawi and Rhodesia are typical,
more uniformly marked, a dull, deep pink with the postmedial fasciae marked yellow anteriorly,
fuscous posteriorly.
A series of 69 specimens from Kitale (Kenya) is a bright, vinaceous pink, nearest to Ridgeway’s
Alizarine pink, with faintly defined postmedial fasciae and discal spots, but similar in structure of
both male and female genitalia to typical rosea. These specimens represent subspecies aurivillii
Bouvier.
Tagaropsis rougeoti sp.n. (Figures 39, 40, 82-84)
$ 106 mm.: Tarsi, fore- and mid-tibiae, palpus, frons and vertex a vinaceous brown, Ridgway’s
cinnamon drab to natal brown; a spot of yellow at base of each antenna, a brown spot on meta-
thorax, remainder of vestiture amber yellow to citron yellow. Upperside of wings yellow
patterned with brown (Figure 39); discal spot on fore wing hyaline ringed with brown. Under-
side of wings coloured similarly to the upperside; pattern as in (Figure 40).
Genitalia: Uncus with dorsal lobe; saccus extensively produced caudad; valve with almost
rectangular process at base of dorsal margin; vesica with a short, tapered cornutus. Posterior
margin of eighth sternite sclerotized and shallowly excised medially (Figures 82-84).
_ Externally closely similar to the South African T. flavinata Walker, but having a slightly
ereater wingspan. Differs structurally from flavinata (Figures 85-87) in the presence of the lobed
process on the uncus, the very long saccus, the more tapered valve and the shape of the basal
process, in the shape of the aedeagus, in the form of the cornutus and in the form of the eighth
sternite.
It is with pleasure that I name this species in honour of Monsieur P. Rougeot of the Museum
national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris in token acknowledgement for his help in determining the
Ruwenzori Saturniidae.
UGANDA: Fort Portal, 5,000 ft., xii.1934-1.1935 (Edwards), genitalia slide Saturniidae No. 23,
holotype 3; Kigezi, xii.1953 (Van Someren), 1 3.
Saturniidae, Sphingidae
Drepanoptera antinorii (Oberthiir)
Saturnia antinorii Oberthiir, 1880, Ann. Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova, 15 : 178, pl. rt: 4.
| Epiphora (Drepanoptera) magdalena Grunberg, 1909, Dtsch. ent. Z. 1909 : 130.
Epiphora (Drepanoptera) antinorii Oberthiir, Gaede, 1924, in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde,
Tees leu pled 8 SC:
KENYA: Mt. Kinangop, 8,000 ft., x.1934 (Edwards), 2 3.
Distribution: Ethiopia; Kenya; Tanzania.
Drepanoptera marginimacula (Joicey & Talbot)
Epiphora antinori marginimacula Joicey & Talbot, 1924, Bull. Hill. Mus. Witley, 1
Barns, 1923, Across the Great Craterland to the Congo, figure 80, no. 1.
UGANDA: Mt. Mgahinga, 11,000 ft., 22.xi.1934 (Edwards), 1 3.
Distribution: Rwanda; S. W. Uganda.
: §60; T. A
SPHINGIDAE
Dovania poecila Rothschild & Jordan
j Dovania poecila Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9, Suppl., 47, pl. 6 : 9.
RUWENZORI: Mahoma River, 6,700 ft., 13-16.viii.1952 (Fletcher), 2 3.
UGANDA: Fort Portal, 5,000 ft., xii.1934-4.1935 (Edwards), 1 3.
Distribution: Cameroun; E. Congo (Leopoldville); Uganda; Kenya; Tanzania; Malawi.
Temnora pseudohylas pseudohylas (Rothschild)
| Lophuron pseudohylas Rothschild, 1894, Novit. zool. 1 : 71.
Temnora pseudohylas pseudohylas Rothschild, Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool. 9, Suppl.,
B83, pl. 50:15; pl. $6: Zo.
RUWENZORI: Ibanda, 4,700 ft., 20-21.vii.1952 (Fletcher), 1 3; ibid., 4-12.ix.1952, I 3.
Distribution: Uganda; Kenya to Cape Province.
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Metarbela splendida sp.n. holotype 3
B.M.Neg.44703
Salagena arcys sp.n. holotype 3 (x 2)
B.M.Neg.44704
Metarbela nubifera (Bethune-Baker) holo-
type 5 B.M.Neg.44702
Latoia concavata (Strand) holotype 3
B.M.Neg.44716
L. cinnamomarea sp.n. holotype 3
B.M.Neg.44712
Pseudomantria seminigra sp.n. holotype
(< 2) B.M.Neg.44708
Trachyptena spinosata sp.n. paratype 3
(< 2) B.M.Neg.44709
T. spinosata sp.n. holotype J ( 2)
B.M.Neg.44710
Narosa bractea sp.n. paratype 5 (x 2)
B.M.Neg.44706
N. bractea sp.n. paratype 9 (* 2)
B.M.Neg.44705
Prolatoia eburata sp.n. holotype 3
B.M.Neg.44713
Thoseidea lineapunctata (Bethune-Baker)
holotype 3 (< 2) B.M.Neg.44711
Latoia chrysopa sp.n. holotype 3
B.M.Neg.44707
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30.
3I.
Epiplema nymphaeata Warren 3 (* 2)
Kenya, B.M.Neg.45822
E. nymphaeata Warren 3 ( 2) Ruwen-
zori, B.M.Neg.45823
E. sporocosma sp.n. holotype 3 ( 2)
B.M.Neg.45820
E. triumbrata Warren 3 (x 2)
B.M.Neg.45821
E. barbara Warren 3 (x 2)
B.M.Neg.45827
E, arenosa sp.n. paratype 2 ( X 2)
B.M.Neg.45826
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E. baliocosma sp.n. holotype 3 (x
B.M.Neg.45824
wa
E. baliocosma sp.n. paratype 2 (x 2
B.M.Neg.45825
Dirades angulifera Warren 3 ( 2)
B.M.Neg.45828
D. angulifera Warren 2 (x 2)
B.M.Neg.45829
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FIG.
33.
34.
35.
30.
37-
38.
39.
40.
Leipoxais tamsi sp.n. holotype 3
B.M.Neg.45833
Streblote craterum Tams ¢
B.M.Neg.45830
S. eccrita sp.n. holotype 3
B.M.Neg.45834
S. graberii Dewitz zsubsp. 3
B.M.Neg.45832
Pachymeta immunda (Holland) paratype 3
B.M.Neg.45831
Hoplojana distincta Rothschild holotype $
B.M.Neg.45837
Tagaropsis rougeoti sp.n. holotype 3
upperside B.M.Neg.45835
T. rougeoti sp.n. holotype 3 underside
B.M.Neg.45836
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41. Brachylia badiala sp.n. holotype 3 geni-
talia (x 22) B.M.Neg.45865
42. Salagena arcys sp.n. holotype 3 genitalia
(< 24) B.M.Neg.45866
43. Brachylia terebroides Felder 3 genitalia
(< 20) B.M.Neg.45867
44. Azygophleps mediopallens sp.n. paratype
aedeagus (x 12) B.M.Neg.45868
45. A. ochricosta spn. paratype aedeagus
(< 12) B.M.Neg.45869a
46. A. ochricosta sp.n. paratype G genitalia
p-n. paratype Gg g
(< 12) B.M.Neg.458690
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47. Ctenolita anacompa Karsch aedeagus
(< 24) B.M.Neg.45871
48. C. anacompa Karsch 3 genitalia (< 24)
B.M.Neg.45870
49. C. melanosticta (Bethune-Baker) aedeagus
(< 24) B.M.Neg.45873
50. Latoia chrysopa sp.n. holotype $ genitalia
(< 22) B.M.Neg.45874
st. L. carnapi (Karsch) 3 genitalia (x 12)
B.M.Neg.45875
52. L. mesochloris (Hampson) holotype 3
genitalia (x 24) B.M.Neg.45876
53. L. concavata (Strand) 3 genitalia (>< 22)
B.M.Neg.45877
54. L. cinnamonarea sp.n. holotype 3 genitalia
(< 30) B.M.Neg.45878
55. L. cinnamonarea sp.n. holotype aedeagus
(< 30) B.M.Neg.45879
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FIG.
56. Prolatoia eburata sp.n. holotype 3 geni-
talia (x 30) B.M.Neg.45880
57. P. eburata sp.n. holotype aedeagus ( 30)
B.M.Neg.45881
58. Narosa bractea sp.n. holotype 3 genitalia
(< 22) B.M.Neg.45882
59. N. bractea sp.n. holotype aedeagus with
vesica extruded (x 22) B.M.Neg.45883
60. Pseudomantria flava Bethune-Baker
aedeagus (x 22) B.M.Neg.45884
61. P. seminigra sp.n. paratype ° genitalia
(< 30) B.M.Neg.45888
A
62. P. seminigra sp.n. holotype 3
(< 30) B.M.Neg.45886
genitalia
63. P. seminigra sp.n. holotype aedeagus
(< 30) B.M.Neg.45887
cn
Ke)
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64. Thoseidea lincapunctata (Bethune-Baker)
holotype 9 genitalia ( 22)
B.M.Neg.45889
65. TI. lineapunctata (Bethune-Baker) holo-
type aedeagus (x 22) B.M.Neg.45890
66. ‘Trachyptena spinosata sp.n. holotype 3
genitalia (x 24) B.M.Neg.45891
67. T. spinosata sp.n. holotype aedeagus
(< 24) B.M.Neg.45892
68. Epiplema nymphacata Warren holotype 3
genitalia (< 50) B.M.Neg.45896
69. E. nymphacata | Warren paratype &
genitalia (x 30) B.M.Neg.45897
7o. E. arenosa sp.n. paratype 9 genitalia
(< 30) B.M.Neg.45898
71. E. arenosa spn. paratype 3 genitalia
(< 30) B.M.Neg.45899
72. EE. arenosa sp.n. paratype aedeagus ( 30)
B.M.Neg.45900
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FIG.
73. Epiplema sporocosma sp.n. paratype J
genitalia ( 25) B.M.Neg.45901
74. E. sporocosma sp.n. paratype aedeagus
(< 25) B.M.Neg.45902
75. E. triumbrata Warren holotype d genitalia
(< 25) B.M.Neg.45903
76. E. triumbrata Warren holotype aedeagus
(< 25) B.M.Neg.45904.
77. E. baliocosma sp.n. holotype 3 genitalia
(x 30) B.M.Neg.45905
78. E. baliocosma sp.n. aedeagus ( 30)
B.M.Neg.45906
79. E. baliocosma sp.n. 9 genitalia ( 22)
B.M.Neg.45907
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ray
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FIG.
80. Streblote eccrita sp.n. holotype 3 genitalia
and 8th sternite ( 22) B.M.Neg.4s5910
81. Leipoxais tamsi sp.n. 3 genitalia and 8th
sternite (X 24) B.M.Neg.4s911
82. Tagaropsis rougeoti spn. holotype 3
genitalia (x 25) B.M.Neg.4s5912
83. T. rougeoti sp.n. holotype 3 8th sternite
(< 22) B.M.Neg.45913
84. T. rougeoti sp.n. holotype aedeagus (> 22)
B.M.Neg.45914
85. T. flavinata Walker 3 8th sternite (x 22)
B.M.Neg.45916a
86. T. flavinata Walker aedeagus (x 22)
B.M.Neg.45916
87. T. flavinata Waiker 3 genitalia ( 25)
B.M.Neg.45915.
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