BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 241 



elotlied witli dark fuscous scales, except on a wedg-e-shaped 

 black-margined indentation a little below apex, containing a 

 wliitish spot. (?) Hind-wing'S and cilia dark fuscous-grey. 



Very similar to the j)receding; best distinguished by the 

 smaller size, and complete fascia formed by third costal and 

 anal streaks. Two specimens, in rather imperfect condition, 

 taken at Auckland, New Zealand, flying over damp grass on a 

 shady bank, in January. 



Glyph, actinobola, n. sp. 



($ . 3|-". Head and thorax deep bronze. Palpi white, 

 second joint with two oblique whorls of blackish broadly white- 

 tipped scales, terminal joint black with two oblique white bands. 

 Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen blackish-fuscous, beneath 

 snow-white, apex white. Legs dark fuscous, middle and 

 posterior tibiae with white central and apical bands, all tarsi 

 with slender white rings at apex of joints. Fore-wings narrow, 

 somewhat dilated, hind-margin sinuate beneath apex ; dark 

 bronze, with one dorsal and six costal slender white dark- 

 margined streaks ; dorsal streak slightly beyond middle, obliquely 

 curved towards apex of wing, Lardly reaching ^ across wing, 

 tending to be produced along inner margin towards base ; first 

 costal streak beyond ^, very oblique ; second in middle, rather 

 less oblique, not reaching half across wing, apex silvery -metallic ; 

 third before f, less oblique, ending in a violet-silvery metallic 

 spot on disc ; between second and third is sometimes an 

 additional small white spot on costa; fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 acutely wedge-shaped, small, hardly oblicj[ue, close together 

 before apex ; a violet-silv ery metallic outwardly oblique streak 

 from anal angle, ending in a spot between extremities of second 

 and third costal streaks ; an obscure violet-silvery metallic spot 

 on hind-margin below middle ; cilia white on tips, with a black 

 hook at aj)ex, basal f separated by a blackish line and dark 

 fuscous-grey, except a white dark-margined wedge-shaped 



