188 DESCRIPTIONS Or AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



frequenting tlie blossoms of a species of Carex on the summit of 

 the surrounding table-land. 



Glyph, triselena, Meyr. 



The description of this species (Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., V., 

 234) is very defective in respect of the basal markings of the 

 forewings, which are peculiar and highly characteristic, and is 

 also inaccurate in some minor points, owing to the inferior con- 

 dition of the two original specimens ; I have thought it best 

 therefore to redescribe the species from a series of specimens in 

 fine condition, taken at Christchurch, N. Z., in February. 



^ ? . 4j"-5". Head and thorax greyish-bronze, with an 

 ochreous-whitish longitudinal line on each side of back from 

 behind eyes through thorax, shoulders golden-ochreous. Palpi 

 black, with four whorls of black white-tipped scales. Antennae 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen elongate, grey, with white apical rings 

 on segments, apex white. Anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi 

 dark fuscous with whitish rings, posterior tibiae and tarsi light 

 grey with whitish bands. Forewings elongate, narrowed 

 posteriorly, hindmargin very oblique, slightly sinuate ; light 

 golden-ochreous ; an ochreous-whitish streak along inner margin 

 from base nearly to middle, broadly and suffusedly margined 

 above with dark grey ; a curved leaden-metallic streak from base 

 nearly to middle, broadly and suffusedly margined above with 

 dark grey ; a curved leaden-metallic streak from base beneath 

 costa to near inner margin at one-third from base ; a slightly 

 curved oblique leaden-metallic streak from costa at one-fourth, 

 reaching half across wing, terminating above apex of ba^l streak ; 

 two straight parallel direct leaden-metallic transverse fasciae, one 

 before, the other slightly beyond middle ; from second below 

 middle proceeds a rather narrow longitudinal black band, bent 

 downwards to anal angle, thence continued along lower half of 

 hindmargin, containing two golden-metallic spots in the bend and 

 two others on the hindmargin ; the space above this nearly to 



