BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 245 



taken on the dry grassy volcanic hills near Christchurch, New 

 Zealand, in January. 



Glyph, astrapsea, n. sp. 



<$ . 5^". Head and thorax brilliant metallic coppery bronze, 

 face dark fuscus. Palpi with second joint clothed with three 

 whorls of black very narrowly white-tipped scales, terminal 

 joint black with an oblique white lateral line. Antennae dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen blackish-fuscous, apex ochreous- white. Legs 

 dark bronzy-fuscous, middle and posterior tibise with obscure 

 slender whitish central and apical rings, tarsi with obscure white 

 rings at apex of joints, two apical joints of posterior tarsi wholly 

 white. Fore-wings moderately broad, somewhat dilated, hind- 

 margin sinuate below apex ; brilliant metallic coppery-bronze, 

 with violet- silvery metallic obscurely dark-margined markings ; 

 a short oblique streak from costa before middle ; a rather 

 irregular outwardly curved fascia from beyond middle of costa 

 to anal angle ; a rather short oblique streak from of costa, 

 opposite extremity of which is a triangular spot on hind-margin 

 below middle; two small spots on costa before apex, second 

 produced as a curved streak to hind-margin below apex ; cilia 

 whitish towards apex, blackish-fuscous towards anal angle, with 

 a black apical hook, and intersected by a strong black line, 

 obliterated at anal angle and where a white black-margined 

 indentation meets the sub-apical streak. Hind-wings and cilia 

 blackish-fuscous. 



This and the succeeding species are very handsome insects, 

 not coming very near any others, but very closely allied together ; 

 G. astrapcea is distinguished by the total absence of the 

 longitudinal streak from base, and by the complete fascia beyond 

 middle ; in other respects it is extremely similar. One $ taken 

 flying in the sun in a grassy swamp near Cambridge, New 

 Zealand, in January. 



