28 Transactions. 



Glyphipteryx aerifera Meyr., Exot. Micr., 1, 57. 



$. 11 mm. Head and thorax shining bronze. Palpi on basal and 

 second joints with three whorls of black white-tipped scales, terminal joint 

 white with black anterior and interior streaks. Abdomen grey. Forewings 

 elongate, costa gently arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen somewhat 

 rounded, rather strongly oblique ; bright shining bronze ; markings pale 

 golden-metallic ; five slender streaks from costa, first from middle, short, 

 oblique, indistinct, others edged with a few blackish scales, second and 

 third rather oblique, reaching half across wing, fourth and fifth short, 

 transverse ; a transverse mark from tornus, not reaching half across wing, 

 lying between second and third costal streaks and not meeting either ; 

 small spots on termen above and below middle : cilia bronzy, on outer 

 half grey, with pale golden-metallic basal spots on terminal markings. 

 Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey, towards tips paler. 



Mount Euapehu, 4,500 ft., in January (Hudson) ; one specimen. 



.Plutellidae. 

 Orthenches saleuta n. sp. 



$. 9-10 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey mixed with whitish. 

 Abdomen light grey. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex tolerably pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; grey, 

 strewn with dark-fuscous scales tending to form small spots and strigulao, 

 and irregularly suffused with white between these, especially in disc and 

 towards apex : cilia white, with dark-fuscous basal line, tips round apex 

 bright coppery, on lower half of termen with outer third bronzy-grey. 

 Hind-wings grey ; cilia whitish-grey, with grey basal line. 



Waiouru, in February (Hudson) ; two specimens. 



TlNEIDAE. 



Endophthora roseata n. sp. 



$. 12 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, laterally streaked with 

 blackish towards apex of second and base of terminal joints. Antennae 

 grey-whitish. Thorax light rosy-brownish, shoulders marked with dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, ovipositor surrounded with a dense 

 tuft of ochreous-whitish hairs. Forewings narrowly elongate-lanceolate, 

 acute ; light rosy-purple-brownish ; about eight small blackish costal marks ; 

 an irregular brown mark on fold towards base, terminated by a few blackish 

 scales, and edged with some whitish suffusion ; a narrow oblique brown 

 fascia from before middle of costa to beyond middle of dorsum, partially 

 edged with blackish posteriorly ; a streak of brown suffusion from middle 

 of disc to middle of termen, including a line of black scales, and edged above 

 posteriorly by a fine white streak : cilia pale yellow-ochreous, sprinkled 

 with blackish. Hindwings grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Wadestown, in November (Hudson) ; one specimen. 



Thallostoma n. g. 



Head densely rough-haired ; ocelli present ; tongue absent. Antennae |, 

 basal joint elongate, compressed, with slight pecten. Labial palpi mode- 

 rately long, porrected, slightly rough-scaled beneath, terminal joint shorter 

 than second, obtuse-pointed. Maxillary palpi moderate, curved, ascend- 

 ing, apparently three-jointed, loosely scaled, tolerably pointed. Posterior 



