454 
EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
very obliquely rounded ; greyish ; postal edge white from about -t to 
| ; whitish scales strewn in a median longitudinal series through 
cell, and on margins of cell, veins posteriorly finely but irregularly 
white : cilia grey, on costal streak white. Hindwings and cilia 
grey. 
Belgian Congo, Katanga, April ( C. Seydel ); 1 ex. (Belg. Cong. 
Mus.). 
AEGERIADiE. 
9 
GYMNOSOPHISTXS, n. g. 
Head with long rough hairs on crown, face with appressed scales ; 
ocelli large, posterior; tongue well-developed, slender. Antennas 
apical t swollen into an obtuse club with small fine apical hair- 
pencil, stalk stout towards base and shortly unipectinate on inner 
side of basal J, fasciculate-ciliated throughout and also shortly on 
lower part of club, and bifasciculated near base, scape short. Labial 
palpi moderately long, recurved, basal and second joints densely but 
rather shortly rough-haired anteriorly throughout, terminal joint 
short, with appressed hairs, tolerably pointed. Maxillary palpi 
obsolete. Middle and hind tibiae clothed with long rough hairs 
beneath, two basal joints of hind tarsi thickened with rough scales 
above. Abdomen stout, cylindrical, slightly constricted at base, 
anal tuft not expanded. Fore wings 2 from angle, straight, 3 widely 
remote, nearly parallel, 4 and 5 long-stalked (in one example) or 
coincident (in the other), 6 remote, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 
9 from near angle, 9-11 crowded together. Hindwings over 1, 
ovate, cilia microscopic ; 2 from |, 3 and 4 stalked from angle, 
5 absent, 6 and 7 rather approximated towards base (in one wing 
of one example connate). 
An advanced type. 
Gymnosophistis thyrsodoxa, n. sp. 
J. 23-25 mm. Head blackish-grey. Antennae red-brown. 
Palpi pale yellow anteriorly, a blackish lateral streak, suffused 
crimson towards base and on terminal joint. Thorax blackish, 
anterior margin suffused deep crimson, an orange spot above base 
of wings. Abdomen blue-blackish, in one example segments 3, 4, 5 
with spots of orange suffusion on each side of back, in the other 
segments 1-5 suffused ochreous dorsally except a dorsal series of dark 
spots, a basal band on prseanal segment and anal tuft suffused dark 
crimson. Legs blackish, middle and hind tibiae light yellow beneath 
on basal half, tarsi reddish-orange. Forewings elongate-triangular, 
costa moderately arched posteriorly ; hyaline, but apparently with 
remains of broad pallid deciduous scales; membrane of costal area 
suffused deep crimson to vein 9 ; a black line on transverse vein 
from 3 to upper angle. Hindwings hyaline, with remains of scales 
