810 REVISION OP AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTBRA, 



10. Protaulaca, n.g. 



Face with somewhat projecting scales. Antennae in ^ shortly 

 ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrected, loosely scaled. Posterior 

 tibiae with all spurs present. Forewingsin ^ beneath with slight 

 groove along vein 1, clothed with rather rough hairs, areole double. 

 Hindwings in ^ with an irregular longitudinal groove above vein 

 1 ; veins 3 and 4 from a point or stalked, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Nearly related to the two preceding genera. 



18. Prot. scythropa, n.sp. 



^. 27-30 mm. Head and thorax rather dark fuscous, mixed 

 with light greenish. Palpi dark fuscous, almost 2, terminal joint 

 moderate. Antennae fuscous, ciliations ^. Abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous, densely irrorated with reddish-fuscous and sprinkled 

 with dark fuscous. Legs dark fuscous, banded with whitish- 

 ochreous. Forewings rather elongate-triangular, hindmargin 

 bowed, somewhat oblique ; whitish-ochreous, irregularly suffused 

 with dull greenish, and irrorated with reddish-fuscous and dark 

 fuscous ; numerous cloudy irregular dark fuscous transverse lines ; 

 a very small somewhat darker basal patch, outer edge curved ; 

 median band formed by two narrow darker bands enclosing a 

 lighter interspace, anterior edge running from \ of costa to beyond 

 middle of inner margin, sinuate, posterior edge running from 

 before |- of costa to | of inner margin, slightly projecting in 

 middle, sinuate inwards above middle and on lower half ; a small 

 dark fuscous transverse discal mark in median interspace ; a 

 double pale line following median band, margined by a darker 

 fuscous line ; an indistinct oblique dark fuscous streak from apex, 

 interrupted by an ochreous-whitish subterminal line ; a hind- 

 marginal series of small cloudy subquadrate dark fuscous spots 

 arranged in pairs : cilia fuscous-whitish, base mixed with fuscous. 

 Hindwings with hindmargin rounded ; rather dark ochreous- 

 brown, darker towards hindmargin ; cilia fuscous-whitish. 



Brisbane, Queensland; Sydney, New South Wales; in October, 

 three specimens. 



