Meyrick. — On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 15 



I took four specimens at Dunedin at light in January ; Mr. K. W. 

 Fereday has met with it at Christchurch and Lake Wakatipu in the same 

 month. 



5. Dipt. leucoxantJia, n. sp. 



Female. — 19 mm. Head and thorax light orange-ochreous. Palpi 

 ochreous-orange, base, apex and upper surface mixed with dark fuscous. 

 Antennae 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 f of costa to |- of inner margin ; a comparatively rather large 

 oval snow-white spot in disc beyond middle, suffusedly margined with dark 

 fuscous, anterior extremity produced upwards into a bluut 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. 



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. E. W. Fereday near Lake Wakatipu 

 in January. 



6. Dipt, metallifera, Butl. 

 (Eromene metallifera, Butl., Proe. 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 



