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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 brigbtly-marked insect, 

 with considerable affinity to D. auriscriptella, but darker, and with the first 

 line strongly dentate beneath. 



Two specimens taken at Auckland amongst scrub in January. 

 3. Dipt, astrosema, n. sp. 



Male. — 15-16 mm. Head white, ochreous-tinged behind. Palpi dark 

 fuscous, internally and beneath white ; apex of maxillary palpi white. 

 Antennaa 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 disc and towards apex ; a small very suffused white spot 

 beneath base of costa ; a triangular snow-white blotch in disc 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 

 blotch, thence sharply bent inwards and continued to inner margin at ■§■ ; 

 a moderately large oblong snow-white dark-margined spot in disc 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 f 

 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. 



