232 DESCEIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



sinuate above middle ; oclireous-bronze, with a brassy tinge, 

 witli six complete or interrupted violet-silvery metallic transverse 

 fasciae, second to sixth starting from small wbitisli spots on costa ; 

 first from ^ of costa, rather oblique, reaching to fold or 

 sometimes to inner margin ; second entire, straight, slightly 

 oblique, on inner margin whitish ; third broken in middle, apex 

 of dorsal portion rather beyond apex of costal ; sixth from five- 

 sixth of costa to hind-margin just above anal angle, slightly 

 curved outwardly ; between third and sixth is an expanded fan- 

 like patch of dense diverging pale ochreous lines on a black 

 ground, its base resting on third fascia a little above middle, and 

 its apex covering the whole length of sixth ; the triangular 

 space between this patch and inner margin is jet-black, cut by 

 an irregular longitudinal golden-ochreous line ; the fourth and 

 fifth fasciae are visible only as two transverse violet-silvery bars 

 on this black space, and the corresponding whitish costal spots ; 

 a white spot on costa just before apex, sending a violet-silvery 

 line to above middle of hind-margin ; cilia whitish, greyer 

 towards anal angle, dark fuscous-grey at apex, basal half clothed 

 with dense golden-bronze scales, except where a white indentation 

 meets the sub-apical silvery line. Hind-wings and cilia dark 

 fuscous. 



This handsome species is the largest of the genus, and may 

 be known from all others by its fan-shaped patch of ochreous 

 lines on a black ground, spreading like the tail of a comet. 

 Common at Melbourne, frequenting rushes ; also taken at 

 Blackheath, on the Blue Mountains (3,600 feet), in November. 



Glyph, iometalla, n. sp. 



^ ^ . 3"- 3^". Head and thorax deep bronzy-fuscous. Palpi 

 whitish at base, second joint with two whorls of black white- 

 tipped scales, terminal joint clothed except apex with a whorl 

 of black white-tipped scales. Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 shining dark grey, beneath silvery. Legs dark fuscous-grey, all 



