BY E. MEYRICK. 485 



purplish or bronzy reflections, thinly scaled towards base ; cilia 

 bronzy-fuscous. 



Sydney and Bowenfels (3000 feet), New South Wales ; Mel- 

 bourne, Victoria ; Launceston and Hobart, Tasmania ; Mount 

 Lofty, South Australia ; locally plentiful from December to March, 

 frequenting flowers of Bttrsaria spinosa. Adela laurella, Newm., 

 may probably be this species, but as the description is insufiicient 

 to separate it with certainty from its allies, and the type is not 

 forthcoming, it seems better not to adopt the name on uncertain 

 evidence. Adela chrysolamprella, Ros., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1885, 438, appears to me from the description to be probably a 

 fourth species of the genus, unless described from a bad specimen ; 

 it cannot be certainly identified at present. 



3. Nem. to2)azias, n.sp. 



(J9. 10-12 mm. Head in ^ blackish, in i^ yellow-ochreous, 

 face brassy-metallic. Palpi pale yellow, in ^ with some blackish 

 hairs. Antennae dai'k fuscous. Tliorax bright metallic coppery. 

 Abdomen and legs dark fuscous, base of tarsal joints ochreous- 

 whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; bright deep coppery-purple, 

 with golden-metallic reflections ; a pale metallic-golden streak 

 along basal third of costa ; a pale clear ochreous-yellow oval or 

 pear-shaped spot near base in middle ; a rather broad dark 

 fuscous-purple median fascia, anterior edge curved or somewhat 

 sinuate, posterior edge straight, crossed throughout by numerous 

 whitish-yellowish fine partially broken strise, not quite reaching 

 ])osterior edge : cilia deep coppery-purple. Hindwings dark 

 purplish-fuscous, thinly scaled towards base; cilia purplish-fuscous. 



Blackheath (3500 feet), New South Wales; Georges Bay, 

 Tasmania ; Wirrabara and Mount Lofty, South Australia ; in 

 October, December, and March, locally plentiful, frequenting 

 flowers of Acacia. This species is very similar to the two pre- 

 ceding, but distinguished from both by the clear well-defined 

 yellow (not metallic) subbasal spot, and by the deeper purple 

 (less golden) colouring, especially noticeable in the cilia, of fore- 



