. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. A REVISION OF THE ETHIOPIAN DREPANIDAE (LEPIDOPTERA) 81 Discussion. The individual variation found in the short series available for study is noteworthy. One form of colour-pattern is shown in Plate 8, fig. 303 : this is similar to that in the lectotype. In the Nigerian male collected in Lagos by Boorman, the whole of the distal third of the fore wing is densely irrorate with black. In one male examined from Cameroun the short lateral branch on each posterior process of the eighth abdominal sternum is absent. A single male from Gab
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. A REVISION OF THE ETHIOPIAN DREPANIDAE (LEPIDOPTERA) 81 Discussion. The individual variation found in the short series available for study is noteworthy. One form of colour-pattern is shown in Plate 8, fig. 303 : this is similar to that in the lectotype. In the Nigerian male collected in Lagos by Boorman, the whole of the distal third of the fore wing is densely irrorate with black. In one male examined from Cameroun the short lateral branch on each posterior process of the eighth abdominal sternum is absent. A single male from Gabon collected by Rougeot (in the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Entomologie agricole tropicale, Paris) belongs to this species but possesses small genitalic differences in the male, and when further material is available may prove to represent a new Figs. 128-130, Gonoreta contracta, genitalia. 128, <$ ; 129, o* eighth abdominal sternite 130 $.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). London : BM(NH)
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