246 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



Glyph, transversella, Wkr., Brit. Mus. Cat., 849 (Argyresthia). 



<$ ? . 5"-6". Head and thorax brilliant metallic-bronze, 

 face dark fuscous. Palpi yellowish at base, second joint with 

 three whorls of black white-tipped scales, terminal joint black 

 with a white lateral line. Antennae dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 in <$ dark bronzy-fuscous, beneath silvery-white, in $ blackish, 

 apex whitish. Legs dark bronzy-fuscous, tarsi with whitish 

 rings at apex of joints, posterior tibiae with white central and 

 apical rings, posterior tarsi with two apical joints wholly white. 

 Fore-wings moderately broad, somewhat dilated, hind-margin 

 sinuate below apex; brilliant metallic coppery-bronze, with 

 golden-silvery metallic obscurely dark-margined markings ; an 

 indistinct paler bronzy-yellowish central longitudinal streak from 

 base to beyond middle, broadest posteriorly, attenuated at base ; 

 a short oblique streak from costa before middle; an oblique 

 streak from costa beyond middle, and a rather oblique streak 

 from anal angle, which are not united, apex of dorsal streak 

 lying beyond apex of costal ; a rather short oblique streak from 

 of costa, opposite the 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, dark fuscous towards anal 

 angle, with a black apical hook, basal half, except towards anal 

 angle, separated by a black line and clothed with bronzy scales, 

 except where a white black-margined indentation meets the sub- 

 apical streak. Hind-wings and cilia blackish-fuscous. 



Very nearly aUied to G. astrapaa, but slightly less briUiant, 

 and characterised by the paler central streak from base, and the 

 costal and dorsal streaks beyond middle not being united into a 

 fascia. Eight specimens taken flying gently in the shade over a 

 damp grassy sheltered bank near Auckland, New Zealand, in 

 January. 



