MICEO-LEPIDOPTBRA. 



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Australia, and Kermadec Islands, perhaps artificially conveyed with cultivated 

 ferns, on which the larva doubtless feeds. 



88. Pachyrhabda amianta, n. sp. 



7-9 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen shining whitish. 

 Posterior legs wholly whitish, without spots. Forewings shining whitish : cilia 

 concolorous. Hind wings and cilia whitish. 



Upolu, Malololelei, 2,000 feet, June ; 1 ex. Also 3 from Tutuila, 

 Amauli, bred September from larvae feeding on fructification of " bird's nest 

 fern " (Swezey), in Bishop Museum. In all four examples the posterior legs are 

 perfect, and are entirely without the black apical spot on the tibiae, characteristic 

 of P. aniinoma. 



Glyphipterygidae 

 89. Irianassa uranopa, n. sp. 



16 mm. Head, thorax deep green-blue. Palpi dark blue-grey, 

 internally whitish. Forewings termen little oblique, sinuate beneath apex ; 

 deep blue, with golden-green reflections, costal area blackish, beneath apex a 

 patch of pale greyish-bronze suffusion ; a rather oblique streak of groundcolour 

 from dorsum reaching half across wing enclosed by pale silver-grey lines united 

 at apex but towards dorsum diverging and becoming obsolete ; two very oblique 

 light blue-metallic streaks rising from costa towards middle, whitish on costal 

 edge, uniting in a slender curved silver fascia running to dorsum at | and enclosing 

 on lower half of wing a streak of groundcolour ; a light blue-metallic oblique 

 triangular spot on costa at §, blackish on costa between two white dots ; two 

 direct white wedge-shaped marks from costa before apex, a light blue-metallic 

 slender streak from a white dot on costa at f curved round to join apex of second 

 of these, a very oblique light blue-metallic mark beneath costa preceding first ; 

 a thick violet-silvery transverse streak preceding termen on dorsal § of wing, 

 a black dot in this below its middle ; a silver dot in subapical sinuation : cilia 

 prismatic purplish-coppery-metallic. Hindwings violet-hyaline, veins blackish ; 

 costal | deep blue, with golden-green reflections ; on rest of wing an irregular 

 terminal streak of dark fuscous suffusion, a band of this suffusion extending 

 inwards along fold more or less to base ; cilia white, a dark fuscous basal line. 



Tutuila, Pago Pago, November, December ; 4 ex. Very close to I. alcyonopa, 

 of the New Ireland group. The beautiful colouring varies with the incidence 

 of light. 



