140 AUSTRALIAN GELECHIANAE 
PROTOLECHIA PHLOEOPOLA 1. Sp. 
giownohog, haunting bark. 
3. 20-23 mm. Head whitish. Palpi fuscous, second 
joint mixed with whitish ; terminal joint as long as second. 
Antenne fuscous.. Thorax fuscous, base of patagia whitish. 
Abdomen grey. Legs fuscous irrorated, and tarsi annu- 
lated, with whitish. Forewings narrow, costa gently 
arched, apex pointed, termen very oblique ; 2 and 3 stalked ; 
fuscous ; a broad ochreous-whitish costal streak, its lower 
edge irregular, reaching nearly to middle, its costal edge 
more or less irrorated or suffused with fuscous, which tends 
to form discrete spots; some ochreous suffusion mostly 
towards apex; some whitish scales near termen; cilia 
whitish ochreous with some indistinct basal bars towards 
tornus grey. Hindwings with termen not sinuate; grey ; 
cilia grey. 
Type in Coll. Lyell. 
* V., Melbourne, in September ; Gisborne, in September 
and December ; three specimens. 
PROTOLECHIA CHALAZODES 2. Sp. 
yahalwore, like hail (in allusion to hindwings). 
3g. 14 mm. Head whitish. Palpi whitish, second 
joint fuscous anteriorly ; terminal joint as long as second. 
Thorax whitish suffused with brown. Abdomen dark- 
fuscous densely irrorated with whitish, tuft and underside 
whitish. Legs whitish ; anterior and middle tibie and tarsi 
dark-fuscous annulated with ochreous-whitish. Forewings 
rather narrow, costa nearly straight, apex pointed, termen 
extremely oblique; 2 and 3 stalked; brown irregularly 
mixed with ochreous-whitish, towards termen reddish- 
brown ; fuscous dots on costa at } and 4; a fine median 
longitudinal fuscous line from } to 2, a similar line from 2 
costa to apex ; cilia ochreous-whitish with a median fuscous 
line around apex, and a fuscous bar before apex. Hindwings 
with apex pointed, termen scarcely sinuate ; dark-fuscous 
densely irrorated with whitish ; cilia whitish. 
Very distinct by the peculiar coloration of hindwings 
and dorsum of abdomen, but this is probably confined to 
the male sex. 
Q., Mt. Tambourine, in November ; one specimen. 
