142 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTEBA, 



anal angle ; cilia fuscous-violet round apex, containing a reddish- 

 yellow patch below apex, and with three indistinct blackish lines, 

 thence fuscous-grey. Hind-wings and cilia fuscous-grey. 



Scarce ; occurs at Sydney and Parramatta from November to 

 February, flying in the sun. Allied to the group of alchimietta, 

 Sc., and apparently nearest to the North American superUfrontella, 

 Clem., but not to be mistaken. 



Grac. adelina, n. sp. 



$ ? . 6". Head and thorax ochreous-reddish with violet 

 reflections, face snow-white. Maxillary palpi whitish, externally 

 ochreous-reddish. Labial palpi reddish-ochreous, white at base, 

 lower half of terminal joint externally purple-fuscous. Antennae 

 longer than fore-wings, pale reddish-ochreous, annulated with 

 dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous-grey, pale ochreous at base, 

 beneath metallic-yellow. Legs pale ochreous; anterior tibiae 

 blackish ; middle tibiae very much thickened, deep reddish suffused 

 with violet black. Fore-wings deep reddish-ochreous with violet 

 reflections, with a very broad, pale metallic-yellow costal band, 

 covering more than half the breadth of wing, and extending 

 almost from base to apex ; the ground colour sends a conical 

 projection into this band before middle, cutting half through it, 

 and midway between this and base is a much shorter, obtuse 

 projection, both suffused with deep cobalt-blue ; the lower f of 

 the reddish-ochreous inner-marginal portion is marked from base 

 to apex with regular, transverse strigulae of brilliant deep cobalt- 

 blue, appearing black in some lights ; cilia reddish-ochreous 

 round apex, thence dark fuscous-grey. Hind-wings and cilia 

 dark fuscous-grey. 



This magnificent species is unsurpassed in the elegance and 

 intensity of its colouring. I took one pair in dense swampy forest 

 in January, near Hamilton, on the Waikato, New Zealand. It 

 seem to be nearly allied to the North American violacella, Clem., 

 and Uandella, Clem. 



