236 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



amongst tlie dense luxuriant forest clothing the steep slopes of a 

 mountain overlooking Kangaroo Valley, near Shoalliaven, 1,500 

 feet above the sea, in January. 



Glyi^h. euastera, n. sj). 



^ 5 . 3^"-3i". Head, antennce, and thorax dark fuscous. 

 Palpi whitish at base, second joint with two whorls of dark 

 fuscous white-tipped scales, terminal joint black with two 

 white rings. Abdomen blackish-fuscous, beneath silvery-whitish. 

 Legs dark fuscous, middle and posterior tibiae with white central 

 and apical rings, all tarsi with white rings at apex of joints. 

 Fore- wings elongate, very slightly dilated, hind-margin indented 

 beneath apex ; basal and apical thirds dark fuscous, densely 

 strewn with whitish scales, central third bronzy-ferruginous, 

 more or less broadly suffused with dark fuscous on costa and 

 inner margin; a white oblique costal streak at |, reaching 

 middle, ending in a leaden-metallic spot; an indistinct white 

 spot on inner margin near base ; two outwardly curved steel-blue 

 metallic fasciae ending in white spots on both margins, first 

 hardly before, second beyond middle ; beyond these are three 

 white spots on costa, the first two giving rise to obsolete metallic 

 streaks, the last sub-apical, sending a steel-blue metaUic streak 

 to hind-margin below apex; a blackish spot on apex; cilia 

 whitish, fuscous-grey at apex and anal angle, basal half 

 separated by a strong dark fuscous line, and clothed towards 

 base with ferruginous scales, except where a wedge-shaped 

 dark-margined white indentation meets the sub-apical streak. 

 Hind- wings and cilia dark fuscous-grey. 



Distinct from all others in the Australian region through the 

 absence of both the black discal streak and the apical hook, as 

 well as by the contrast of the central ferruginous third with the 

 rest of the fore-wings, and the steel-blue markings. Five 

 specimens taken on the dry grassy volcanic hills, near Christ- 

 church, New Zealand, in January. 



