BY E. MEYKICK 125 



247. G. pharetropis, n.sp. 



(J. 11 mm. Head and thorax dark bronze. Palpi wliitisli, 

 mixed and ringed with blackish, with rough projecting hairs 

 beneath. Antennae and abdomen dark fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate, costa gently arched, apex ol)tuse, termen subsinuate, 

 oblique; golden-bronze, towards base suffused with dark fuscous; 

 a golden-whitish transverse streak from \ of costa to | of dorsum; 

 six pale violet-golden-metallic streaks from white dots on costa, 

 edged with dark fuscous, first at \, short, second from t of costa 

 to dorsum beyond middle, becoming ochreous-whitish towards 

 dorsum, third parallel, entire, fourth and fifth very short, sixth 

 ante-apical, reaching termen; between third and sixth in upper 

 part of disc a violet-golden-metallic dot and two or three fine 

 black lines, and in lower part an irregular black blotch, marked 

 with one golden-metallic dot above tornus, and three on lower 

 part of termen : cilia whitish, basal half bronzy limited by a 

 blackish line indented beneath apex, above apex dark fuscous 

 marked with white. Hind wings dark grey; cilia grey. 



Gisborne, Victoria, in March; two specimens (Lyell). 



248. G. parazona, n.sp. 

 (^.11 mm. Head and thorax dark bronze, face whitish-edged. 

 Palpi whitish, with four black rings, apex black in front, scales 

 short. Antennae and abdomen dark bronzj'-grey. Forewings 

 elongate, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, 

 rather strongly oblique; ochreous-bronze, suffused with dark 

 fuscous on margins and towards base; two direct parallel pale 

 violet-golden-metallic transverse streaks before middle, first 

 whitish on dorsum; a pale violet-golden-metallic dot on costa 

 beyond middle, and a curved streak from a white dot on costa at 

 1^ to tornus; area between this and antemedian streak nearly all 

 occupied by a large black blotch, of which the upper half is 

 crossed by about six whitish-ochreous longitudinal lines, lower 

 half marked with five golden-metallic dots; an almost apical 

 transverse golden-metallic streak, extremity white : cilia white, 

 basal half bronze limited by a blackish line indented beneath 



