Meyricx.—On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 18 
followed on costa by a pale yellowish spot, and the space between it and 
the suffused median line is more distinctly yellow, especially below discal 
spot; an oblique pale yellowish mark on costa before apex, terminating in 
a rather metallic white dot; three slender longitudinal leaden-metallic 
streaks extending from discal spot to hindmargin, lowest one not reaching 
discal spot ; a leaden metallic line within the second double tranverse line 
from below middle almost to inner margin; three small quadrate black 
spots on hindmargin near together below middle: cilia violet-metallic- 
grey, with a deeper basal line. Hindwings grey, with a dark fuscous 
hindmarginal line: cilia grey-whitish, with an indistinct darker line. 
The smaller species of the genus ; it is a rather brightly-marked insect, 
with considerable affinity to D. auriscriptella, but darker, and with the first 
line strongly dentate beneath. | 
Two specimens taken x psan ongst,s ope DS ei b 120 
. Dipt. ` ò 
Male.—15-16 mm. Head white, ochreous-tinged behind. Palpi dark 
fuscous, internally and beneath white; apex of maxillary palpi white. 
Antenne whitish-ochreous. Thorax light ochreous, with a few white scales. 
Abdomen and.legs whitish. Forewings triangular, broad, costa almost 
straight, somewhat arched towards apex, apex rounded, hindmargin 
oblique, sinuations moderate ; light rather bright ochreous-brown, mixed 
with darker in dise and towards apex; & small very suffused white spot 
beneath base of costa; a triangular snow-white blotch in dise towards base, 
its apex touching base of wing, its sides parallel to costa and inner mar- 
gin, its base resting on first transverse line; first transverse line slender, 
dark fuscous, from costa at $ obliquely outwards to upper angle of white 
plotch, thence sharply bent inwards and continued to inner margin at $; 
a moderately large oblong snow-white dark-margined spot in dise beyond 
middle, parallel to hindmargin, its upper extremity sending a rather long 
sharp tooth towards costa and another towards hindmargin, its lower ex- 
tremity sending a third towards anal angle; second transverse line from $ 
of costa to + of inner margin, slender, almost obsolete, followed on costa by 
a suffused white triangular spot, beneath which is a small white suffusion 
on anterior side of line ; a small white spot in apex, and a whitish suffusion 
in anal angle; four rather indistinct leaden-metallic longitudinal lines 
between discal spot and hindmargin ; three small subquadrate black spots 
near together on hindmargin below middle: cilia shining white, with a 
blackish-grey line. Hindwings dull whitish, slightly greyish-tinged, with a 
dark grey hind-marginal line; cilia whitish, with an indistinct grey line 
near base, 
