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EXOTIC MICROLEPIBOPTERA. 
somewhat oblique; grey or greyish-ochreous, irregularly and 
suffusedly irrorated dark fuscous and whitish; first line about |, 
hardly traceable, second about very obscure, dentate, whitish, 
indistinctly dark-edged ; a terminal series of dark fuscous marks: 
cilia grey sprinkled white. Hindwings grey-whitish, a grey ter¬ 
minal line; cilia whitish, a grey subbasal line. 
Belgian Congo, Ruanda, Gabiru, June, October ( L . Burgeon , 
Jt. Verhulst ): 3 ex. (type Belg. Cong. Mus.). 
PHILOSAURITIS, n. g. 
Face with strong pointed scale-tuft; tongue short, slender. 
Antennae 3 strongly dentate, ciliated. Labial palpi long, porrect, 
second joint thickened with dense scales, rather rough above, 
terminal joint -§- of second, stout, obtuse, somewhat depressed. 
Maxillary palpi very short, filiform. Forewings 2 from towards 
angle, 4 and 5 approximated at base, 8 and 9 stalked, 10 separate. 
Hindwings cell |, 2 from |, 3 and 4 closely appressed towards 
base, 5 absent, 7 out of 6 , closely appressed to 8 to 3 . 
Allied to Zophodici. 
Philosauritis pyrrhostrota, n. sp. 
3 ? . 18-20 mm. Head greyish, frontal tuft mixed dark grey. 
Palpi grey suffusedly irrorated blackish-grey. Thorax brownish- 
ochreous, shoulders suffused ferruginous. Forewings very elongate- 
triangular, costa almost straight, termen rather obliquely rounded ; 
pale brownish-ochreous, more or less suffused ferruginous ; costal, 
submedian, and subdorsal stripes of irregular blackish irroration 
mixed with some brown and ferruginous suffusion, two small spots 
of blackish irroration on angles of cell, some ferruginous suffusion 
and blackish scales between these and termen : cilia pale greyish 
sprinkled dark grey, base tinged ferruginous. Hindwings light 
grey; cilia pale greyish, a darker subbasal shade. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, November (C. Seydel ); 2 ex. 
(type Belg. Cong. Mus.). 
EREBOENIS, n. g. 
Face smooth; tongue developed. Antennae 3 shortly ciliated, 
rather thickened near base with slight sinuation, and a notch on 
back between third and fourth joints of flagellum. Labial palpi 
moderately long, recurved, ascending, basal and second joint 
thickened with rough scales, terminal joint as long as second, scaled, 
pointed. Maxillary palpi short, ascending, filiform. Forewings 
2-4 equidistant, curved, parallel, 4 and 5 connate, diverging, 8 and 
9 stalked, 10 approximated. Hindwings 1|; cell nearly |, 2 from 
4 and 5 rather short-stalked, very shortly appressed at base to 3, 
7 out of 6 anastomosing with 8 to beyond middle. 
