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.. I took four specimens at Dunedin at light in January; Mr. R. W. 
Fereday has met with it at Christchurch and Lake Wakatipu in the same 
mon 
b. Dipt. leucoxantha, n. sp. 
Female.—19 mm. Head and thorax light orange-ochreous. Palpi 
ochreous-orange, base, apex and upper surface mixed with dark fuscous. 
Antenne whitish-ochreous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, posteriorly suf- 
fused with grey. Legs whitish-ochreous. Forewings triangular, very 
broad posteriorly, costa very gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin 
oblique, sinuations moderate ; light ochreous-orange, becoming deeper 
orange posteriorly, especially towards apex; transverse lines obsolete, 
second faintly perceptible, slightly darker, sinuate and outwards-curved, 
from about 2 of costa to 4 of inner margin ; a comparatively rather large 
oval snow-white spot in dise beyond middle, suffusedly margined with dark 
fuscous, anterior extremity produced upwards into a blunt tooth ; a trans- 
verse series of eight very short slender longitudinal leaden-metallic 
streaks on second line, second and third from costa considerably longer 
than the rest: cilia ochreous-white, with a dark grey spot at apex and 
another at anal angle, and a deep grey brassy-metallic basal line. 
Hindwings white, towards hindmargin faintly yellowish-tinged ; cilia 
white. j 
A very beautiful and distinct species, resembling D. lepidella in the 
character of the discal spot, but differing from all in the orange forewings ; 
the clear white hindwings, and absence of the black hindmarginal spots 
are also reliable points; the obsolescence of the transverse lines is perhaps 
not constant. 
One perfect specimen taken by Mr. R. W. Fereday near Lake Wakatipu 
in January. 
6. Dipt. metallifera, Butl. 
(Eromene metallifera, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc., Lond., 1877, 401, Pl. XLIIL, 11.) 
«19 mm. Allied to D. auriscriptella, but forewings rather brighter in 
colour, the transverse lines only half as wide apart, the silver discal spot 
less curved and edged with brown; a series of longitudinal discal silver 
lines between the veins; hindwings white." 
I saw Butler’s type in the British Museum and noted it as a distinct 
species, but have been unable to obtain a specimen for description. The 
above is the only description that Butler gives, (I have taken the liberty of 
altering his terminology), and I consider it hardly accurate. The trans- 
verse lines are represented in the figure as in their usual position, and 
it may be conjectured that Butler has mistaken a central suffused line, 
which is also represented on dorsal half, for one of the usual two transverse 
