BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 139 
incomplete and interrupted, and cutting into streak before 
apex, the streak also contains a short blackish longitudinal 
line near base ; a fine blackish line on fold ; cilia grey with a 
fuscous median line and some whitish irroration at bases. 
Hindwings with termen not sinuate; pale-grey, darker 
towards apex ; cilia grey. 
Allied to P. aversella but more neatly and distinctly 
marked. The forewings are narrower with more acute 
apex, the dorsal area is darker, and there is a complete 
absence of ochreous or ferruginous markings. 
Type in Coll. Lyell. 
V., Gisborne, in October ; two specimens. 
PROTOLECHIA FURCIFERA 2. Sp. 
furciferus, with forked markings. 
3 2. 18-20 mm. Head _ ochreous-whitish. Palpi 
fuscous, apex and inner surface of second joint ochreous- 
whitish ; terminal joint as long as second. Antenne 
fuscous, paler towards base, basal joint whitish. Thorax 
brown with a fine median and broader lateral dark-fuscous 
longitudinal lines. Abdomen grey, apices of segments 
whitish. Legs ochreous-whitish ; anterior and middle tibiz 
and tarsi mixed with fuscous. Forewings narrow, costa 
slightly arched, apex pointed, termen very oblique ; 2 and 3 
stalked ; reddish-brown ; costal area whitish with fuscous 
irroration; a blackish costal mark at 4; a fine whitish 
subcostal line from middle, edged beneath with blackish, 
and giving off four short whitish streaks to apical third 
of costa and apex ; an irregular whitish longitudinal streak 
above middle edged beneath with blackish from base, 
giving off an oblique streak at middle to subcostal line ; 
soon after it forks, each arm of fork is deflected upwards 
into sub-costal line ; some blackish scales on fold, on base 
of dorsum, and on termen ; cilia whitish-brown with median 
and terminal fuscous lines. Hindwings with termen 
scarcely sinuate ; pale-grey ; cilia grey-whitish. 
Type in Coll. Lyell. 
V., Gisborne, in November and December ; two speci- 
mens. 
