234 DESCRIPTIONS OF ArSTRALIAN MICRO -LEPIDOPTERA, 



Gljrpli. triselena, n. s^). 



^ , 4i". Head and thorax dark fuscous. Palpi white at 

 base, second joint with two flattened whorls of black white-tipped 

 scales, terminal joint black with two white rings. Antennae 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen very long, whitish-ochreous. Legs 

 whitish-ochreous, anterior tarsi with obsolete fuscous bands at 

 base of joints. Eore-wings elongate, narrowed posteriorly, 

 hind-margin slightly indented below apex ; pale golden-bronze ; 

 an obscure transverse whitish spot on inner margin near base ; 

 three silvery-white, obscurely dark-margined transverse fasciae ; 

 first from ^ of costa obliquely outwards, angulated in middle, to 

 inner margin before middle ; second and third straight, parallel, 

 nearly perpendicular to costa, before and beyond middle ; from 

 third below middle proceeds a rather narrow longitudinal black 

 band, bent downwards to anal angle, thence continued along 

 lower half of hind-margin, containing four golden-metallic spots 

 in a row; the space between this and costa is filled by six 

 longitudinal ochreous-whitish lines, partially confluent or 

 separated by narrow black interspaces; two oblique nearly 

 parallel silvery- white sub-apical streaks from costa immediately 

 before apex to hind-margin above middle, becoming white in the 

 grey costal cilia ; some dark, metallic-grey scales at apex, cilia 

 whitish, basal third within a fuscous line clothed with pale 

 golden-bronze scales, except where a white indentation meets 

 anterior sub-apical line. Hind-wings pale grey, cilia whitish- 

 grey. 



Nearest to G. iometalla and A. argyrosema, but differing from 

 both in the peculiarly narrowed fore-wings, the much paler 

 colouring, three complete fascise, and narrow black patch 

 containing four metallic spots in a straight line. Two males 

 taken in January on the bare dry grassy volcanic hills near 

 Christchurch, New Zealand. 



