NEW ZEALAND MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 163 
obscurely dark-margined markings ; a short oblique streak from 
costa before middle; a rather irregular outwardly curved fascia 
from beyond middle of costa to anal angle; a rather short oblique 
streak from 34 of costa, opposite extremity of which is a triangu- 
lar 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, blackish-fuscous towards 
anal angle, with a black apical hook, and intersected by a strong 
black line, obliterated at anal angle, and where a white black- 
margined indentation meets the sub-apical streak. Hind-wings 
and cilia blackish-fuscous. 
Male, length 5 % lines, 
This and the succeeding species are very handsome insects, 
not coming very near any others, but very closely allied together. 
G. astrapea is distinguished by the total absence of the longi- 
tudinal streak from base, and by the complete fascia beyond 
middle; in other respects it is extremely similar. One male 
taken flying in the sun in a grassy swamp near Cambridge 
(Waikato), in January. 
7. G. transversella, Walker, l.c., vol. 5, —p. 246.—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. 
Antenne dark fuscous. Abdomen in male dark bronzy-fuscous, 
beneath silvery-white ; in female blackish, apex whitish. Legs 
dark bronzy-fuscous, tarsi with whitish rings at apex of joints, 
posterior tibiz with white central and apical rings, posterior 
tarsi with two apical joints wholly white. Fore-wings mode- 
rately 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, and 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 
34 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. 
Male and female ; length 514-6 lines. 
Very nearly allied to G. astrapea, but slightly less brilliant, 
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, in January. 
