160 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



corner of leaf. I have also found tlie larva on Agonis flexuosa, a 

 closely allied plant, but a native of West Australia, and only- 

 found here under cultivation ; it does not however frequent the 

 other common species of Leptospermum. 



Grac. eumetalla, n. sp. 



^ $ . 3"-3i". Head, palpi, and thorax bright metallic bronzy- 

 green, face bright silvery. Antennae as long as fore-wings, 

 blackish. Abdomen black above, silvery- white beneath. Legs 

 metallic silvery, posterior tibiae stiff-haired above, and, together 

 with tarsi, suffused externally with fuscous. Fore- wings bright 

 metallic coppery or bronzy green, with white violet- shining 

 markings, consisting of four costal and four dorsal short slender 

 wedgeshaped streaks, and a discal spot, all black-margined ; first 

 costal streak at \, second at ^, both slightly oblique outwardly ; 

 third at f , short, not oblique ; fourth uniting with fourth dorsal 

 streak to make an inwardly curved fascia ; first dorsal streak 

 much before first costal, rather long, curved, very oblique ; second 

 short, straight, between first and second costal streaks ; third 

 opposite third costal, outwardly oblique, nearly uniting with 

 fourth ; a small irregular, sometimes double, discal spot between 

 second and third pairs of streaks ; apical spot round, black, 

 obscure ; cilia blackish-fuscous, with a black line round apex. 

 Hind- wings and cilia blackish-grey. 



A briUiant insect, distinguished amongst its allies fey its bright 

 metallic colouring. I beat several specimens from a phyllodineous 

 Acacia (to which it is probably attached) near Brisbane in 

 September ; also once taken on a fence near Sydney, in October. 



Grac. eupetala, n. sp. 



^ $ . 3^-31-". Head and palpi bright metallic grey-silvery. 



Antennae as long as fore-wings, blackish. Thorax deep metallic 



bronze. Abdomen blackish, beneath snow-white with black 



bands. Legs dark fuscous, tarsal joints with slender whitish 



