BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 135- 
PROTOLECHIA HILARA 2. Sp. 
idagog, cheerful. 
9.16 mm. Head and thorax dark-fuscous. Palpi 
_ dark-fuscous, with a few whitish scales ; terminal joint as 
long as second. Antenne dark-fuscous. Abdomen dark-. 
fuscous ; tuft orange, beneath whitish. Legs dark-fuscous 
irrorated, and tarsi annulated, with whitish; posterior 
tibiz yellow. Forewings rather narrow, costa rather 
strongly arched, apex round-pointed, termen oblique; 2 
and 3 stalked ; dark-fuscous with a few seattered whitish 
scales ; stigmata blackish, searcely discernible ; a whitish 
suffused spot above tornus ; cilia fuscous, apices whitish. 
Hindwings searcely sinuate ; orange ; some fuscous scales. 
on apex and termen ; cilia fuscous. 
Conspicuous by the orange hindwings. 
V., Gisborne, in October ; one specimen in Coll. Lyell. 
PROTOLECHIA EURYARGA 2. Sp. 
evovagyos, broadly white. 
3 2. 8-11 mm. Head white, base of side tufts 
fuscous-brown. Palpi rather short ; terminal joint as long 
as second ; white, external surface of second joint fuscous. 
Antenne fuscous. Thorax white ; patagia fuscous-brown. 
Abdomen grey, tuft whitish. Legs fuscous ; posterior pair 
mostly whitish. Forewings with costa moderately arched, 
apex rounded, termen very obliquely rounded; 2 and 3 
stalked ; fuscous-brown ; a broad white costal streak from 
base to apex, narrowing at extremities, containing some 
brownish scales towards costa posteriorly, narrowly edged 
with fuscous beneath, and slightly indented at 4 and 2, the 
indentations representing discal stigmata; some white 
suffusion along dorsum and tornus; cilia white, on apex 
fuscous. Hindwings rather strongly sinuate ; whitish, to- 
wards apex grey-whitish, in Q pale-grey ; cilia grey-whitish 
becoming whitish on dorsum. 
Nearest P. invalida Meyr., but smaller, forewings of 
costa more strongly arched, and costal streak proportion- 
ately broader. 
Q., Brisbane, in August, September, October and May : 
SIX specimens. 
