remarkable new genera of Microlepidojrtera. 249 



scale-tooth at one-third and very large scale-lobe at two-thirds ; 

 veins 3, 5 and 6 absent. 



Nearest to Trichoptilus, Wlsm. 



Titanoptihis melanodonta, n. sp. 



£. Head, thorax and abdomen clothed with grey, brown and 

 black scales. Fore-wing greyish suffused with dark brown and 

 irrorated with rough black scales ; a whitish mark at base of excision, 

 the fringes of scales below upper plume and above lower black and 

 whitish ; the lobe on inner margin formed of large black scales, the 

 lower plume fringed below with black and whitish scales and with a 

 scale-tooth before its falcate extremity. Hind-wing greyish suffused 

 with dark brown ; a few black scales in the fringes below and at 

 extremity of the two upper plumes ; the inner margin with the 

 long spatulate scales of the scale-tooth and lobe pale at base, black 

 at extremities ; a tuft of black scales at extremity of plume with 

 the fringe on inner margin before it white. 



Hob. British E. Africa, N'dimu, Uganda Ry., mile 

 469. (Betton), $ . Exp. 42 mm. Type in B. M. 



