Meyrick. — Notes and Descriptions of Neiu Zealand Lepidoptera. 15 



Gracilaria, Hw. Middle tibiae thickened with dense scales, more or 

 less rough beneath, posterior tibise smooth-scaled. 

 linearis, Butl. 

 selenitis, Meyr. 

 chrysitis, Feld. 

 chalcodelta, Meyr. 



Gracilaria selenitis, n. sp. 



5 . 12 mm. Head yellow-whitish, sides of crown reddish-ochreous. 

 Palpi yellow-whitish, terminal joint ferruginous-tinged near base. An- 

 tennae white ringed with blackish, basal joint whitish-ferruginous. Thorax 

 ferruginous-ochreous, with a yellow-whitish dorsal stripe. Abdomen rather 

 dark grey, beneath yellow-whitish. Legs whitish, anterior and middle 

 femora and tibiee mixed with ferruginous-ochreous and sprinkled with black, 

 tips of tarsal joints blackish. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, costa mode- 

 rately arched posteriorly, apex acute ; deep ochreous-yellow, more orange 

 towards dorsum, with a strong purple gloss, strewn throughout except 

 beneath fold with very numerous suffused yellow-whitish dots separated 

 by small dots and strigulse of dark fuscous scales ; three moderate brassy- 

 yellow-whitish spots on dorsum : cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings rather 

 dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Mount Holdsworth, 3,000 ft. ; one specimen (Hudson). Very distinct. 



Glyphipteryx, Hb. 



Finding that Phryganostola, which only differed from Glyphipteryx by 

 the rough projecting scales or tuft of second joint of palpi, appeared to be 

 an artificial division, which separated nearly alUed species, I have suppressed 

 it, including all the species in Glyphipteryx. 



Glyphipteryx codonias, n. sp. 



5 . 14 mm. Head, antennse, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous, patagia 

 shining bronze. Palpi black, second joint without tuft, with three white 

 rings, terminal joint with two white stripes. Forewings elongate, rather 

 narrow, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen hardly sinuate, 

 rather strongly oblique ; bright golden-bronze ; five variably oblique narrow 

 violet-silvery-metallic partly black-edged streaks from costa, first short, 

 slightly before middle, second angulated, reaching half across wing, third 

 short, fourth longer, rather dilated apically, fifth running to termen beneath 

 apex ; an erect similar streak from tornus, terminating in a black mark 

 just beyond apex of second costal streak, and a short streak from termen 

 below middle ; a small blackish apical spot : cilia grey, basal half bronzy, 

 with a silvery dot on subapical streak, on costa with white bars on streaks. 

 Hindwings blackish-grey ; cilia dark grey. 



Invercargill, in January ; one specimen (Philpott). Resembles trans- 

 versella, but without the pale longitudinal streak, the silvery streaks differ- 

 ently formed, the second angulated, third shorter than fourth (in transver sella 

 longer than fourth), and otherwise distinct. 



TlNEID^. 



Eschatotypa, Meyr. 



Under the names of derogatella, Walk., and melichrysa, Meyr., treated 

 as synonymous, I have hitherto confused two distinct species, which can 

 now be distinguished under these two names ; both are common. 



