BY OSWALD B. LOWER. 23 



coxje pale ochreous. Abdomen greyish. Forewings moderate, 

 rather narrow; costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin 

 obliquely rounded ; yellow ; a purjjle-fuscous outwards-curved 

 hindmarginal band from anal angle to costa near apex, becoming 

 blackish on anterior edge, especially on lower i : cilia greyish- 

 fuscous, becoming yellowish at base, in some specimens wholly 

 yellow round anal angle. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Port Victor, S. Australia; five specimens in November. 



It is nearest hpMochrysa, Meyr., but with the thorax wholly 

 yellow ; it is not unlike Eidechria malacoptera, Meyr., an 

 CEcophorid. 



. GLYPHIPTEKYGID^:. 



Glyphipteryx polychroa, n.sp. 



^. 12 mm. Head, antennse, and thorax fuscous, palpi whitish 

 with blackish rings beneath. Abdomen lilackish. Legs fuscous. 

 Forewings moderate, elongate, costa gently arched, hindmargin 

 gently bowed ; deep golden-ochreous ; a curved dull whitish- 

 fuscous fascia, from ^ costa to ^ inner margin; a similar fascia 

 from before 3- of costa to J inner margin, upper § tilled with 

 metallic-coppery tint; two small metallic-coppery spots on costa, 

 before and beyond middle; an ochreous-whitish tooth on costa 

 before apex, with two or three connected metallic-coppery spots 

 immediately beneath; an ochreous-whitish tooth at apex, followed 

 beneath by a metallic-coppery dot-like hindmarginal line ending 

 on a dense black elongate patch above anal angle; in the black 

 patch are placed three coppery-metallic equidistant spots : cilia 

 grey-whitish, basal half golden-ochreous. Hindwings dull golden- 

 ochreous; cilia greyish, basal half fuscous. 



Melbourne, Victoria; one specimen in December. 



In the iometalla group. 



LITHOCOLLETIDa;. 

 LiTHOCOLLETIS ^^DISMOCHRYSA, n.Sp. 



(J-9. 3-5 mm. Head, legs, thorax, and abdomen blackish, face 

 and collar shining brassy-metallic, abdomen beneath sprinkled 



