112 Transactions. 



Glyphipteryx calliactis n. sp. 



cJ. 16 mm. Head and thorax dark purple - bronzy - fuscous. Palpi 

 somwehat loosely scaled, white, with four black rings and a black anterior 

 streak towards tip. Abdomen blackish-grey. Forewings elongate, hardly 

 dilated posteriorly, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely 

 rounded ; dark purplish-bronzy-fuscous ; five fine oblique violet-metallic 

 streaks from costa between \ and -f , reaching ^ across wing, fourth longer 

 and directed outwards towards its tip ; two short direct white strigulae 

 from costa before apex ; a fine rather obliquely curved pale greyish- 

 ochreous streak from § of dorsum to fold ; a similar shorter ochreous-whitish 

 streak from dorsum beyond middle, its apex nearly connected by a line of 

 violet-metallic scales with a violet-metallic dot on end of cell ; a fine some- 

 what oblique violet-metallic streak from dorsum before tornus, nearly reach- 

 ing apex of fourth costal ; four nearly or partially connected violet-metallic 

 dots in an irregular series before lower part of termen : cilia fuscous with 

 a blackish antemedian line followed on termen by a whitish shade and 

 indented with silvery-white beneath apex, tips at apex forming a blackish 

 hook. Hindwings elongate-oblong, dark purplish-fuscous, lighter on basal 

 half ; cilia fuscous. 



Kaitoke, bred in September from larvae feeding in flower-stems of 

 Gahnia (Hudson) ; one specimen. Widely distinct from any other New 

 Zealand species. 



Glyphipteryx achlyoessa Meyr. 



In the $ the blackish subbasal line of cilia of forewings is sharply in- 

 dented beneath apex, in $ only sinuate, a curious difference, connected 

 doubtless with the reduction of wing of $. 



Plutellidae. 



Protosynaema steropucha Meyr. 



In my original description of this species the examples described were 

 all ?, not $ and $ as stated. The antennae of <J are really clothed with 

 dense blackish scales to rather above middle, in $ clothed with dense scales 

 to f, this portion being fuscous or dark fuscous except a blackish apical 

 band ; naked area of antennae ochreous-whitish. The coppery-metallic 

 markings of forewings vary considerably in development, but the variations 

 are apparently not sexual as stated. 



Doxophyrtis n. g. 



Head with loosely appressed scales, side tufts somewhat raised ; ocelli 

 present ; tongue developed. Antennae §, in $ shortly ciliated, basal joint 

 moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi rather long, curved, ascending, 

 thickened with scales and somewhat rough anteriorly throughout, terminal 

 joint longer than second, rather furrowed anteriorly and rough on edges, 

 pointed. Maxillary palpi moderate, porrected, filifrom. Posterior tibiae 

 with appressed scales above, rather rough beneath. Forewings with 1& 

 furcate, cell reaching to f of wing, 2 from near angle, 7 to apex, 8-10 

 from near end of cell, 11 from considerably before middle. Hindwings 1, 

 elongate-ovate, cilia \ ; 3 and 4 connate, 5-7 approximated towards base. 



A remarkable genus, with relationships to the Glyphipterygidae and 

 Hyponomeutidae, but referable here by the maxillary palpi. 





