466 
EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
red beneath towards apex, bar on transverse vein with anterior 
half black, posterior half red finely edged dark fuscous : cilia dark 
fuscous. Hindwings violet-hyaline; veins, terminal edge, and 
cilia dark fuscous. 
Uganda, Kampala, November (Hancock ); 1 ex. (Brit. Hus.). 
Aegeria aericincta, n. sp. 
$ . 24 mm. Head blue-blackish, sides of face white. Palpi 
black, in front light brownish. Thorax blue-blackish, anterior edge 
greenish, tegulse partly edged brassy-greenish. Abdomen purple- 
black, dull brassy-yellowish rings on 2, 4, 6. Legs purple-blackish, 
hairs beneath femora and tibial spurs white. Porewings purple- 
hyaline ; veins, a moderate border narrowed on dorsum, and bar 
on end of cell narrowed beneath blackish : cilia purplish-bronzy, 
a dark purple-fuscous basal line. Hindwings purplish-hyaline; 
veins and terminal edge blackish, a small spot on upper angle of 
cell; cilia as in forewings, 
Uganda, Kampala, bred July from Ipomoea batatas ( H . Har¬ 
greaves) ; 1 ex. (Brit. Mus.) 
THAMN03CELXS, n. g. 
Head loosely scaled on crown, face smooth; ocelli large, posterior; 
tongue developed. Antennse J-, simple in both sexes, thickened on 
apical half, obtuse, without apical pencil. Labial palpi moderately 
long, curved, ascending, second joint thickened with rather rough 
scales anteriorly, terminal joint shorter than second, scaled, pointed. 
Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibiae and two basal joints 
of tarsi densely tufted with long rough hairscales. Abdomen stout, 
not constricted, anal tuft slightly developed. Forewings 2 and 3 
nearly approximated from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex. 
Hindwings 2 remote, 3 and 4 rather nearly approximated from 
angle, 5 absent, 6 and 7 nearly parallel, 
Thamnoscelis inclemens, n. sp. 
<S 2 • 23-25 mm. Head blackish on crown, face white, variably 
tinged blue-grey, neck greyish. Palpi brownish-ochreous variably 
tinged grey, second joint anteriorly whitish. Antennae dark violet- 
fuscous. Thorax purple-blackish, behind collar an appressed fringe 
of long fulvous hairscales, metathorax grey. Abdomen dark violet- 
grey, basal segment whitish-grey, 3-6 with broad dull orange-red 
naked bands. Hairs of posterior legs blackish irregularly mixed 
pale ochreous, in S a long expansible ochreous hairpencil from 
near base of tibiae above. Forewings purple-blackish; a long 
narrow hyaline space in "cell from near base to near middle of 
wing, and another of equal length beneath cell; terminal area 
variably more or less hyaline between veins towards margin : cilia 
grey, darker towards base. Hindwings hyaline, ochreous-tinged, 
