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base, with a strong blackish line. Hindwings fuscous-grey, apex rather 

 darker ; cilia grey- whitish, with a dark fuscous hne near base ; discal groove 

 in male furnished with a pencil of hairs. 



The hindmarginal coppery patch makes this species immediately re- 

 cognizable. 



Taken at Wellington, but probably widely spread, though hitherto little 

 noticed. 



16. Protithona, n. g. 



Thorax smooth. Antennae in male shortly ciliated. Palpi moderate, 

 porrected, second joint roughly scaled. Forewings with strong costal fold 

 in male. Hindwings broader than forewings. Forewings with 12 veins, 

 7 and 8 separate, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 7 veins (normal veins 

 3 and 4 coincident), 4 somewhat approximated to 3 at base, 5 and 6 

 separate. 



Intermediate between Holocola and Strepsiceros, agreeing with the former 

 in the entire antennae of male, with the latter in the separation of veins 

 7 and 8 of the forewings, in other characters harmonizing with both. The 

 single species has the superficial appearance of a small Holocola. 

 32. Prot. fugitivana, n. sp. 



Minima, alis ant. griseo-ochreis, macula disci, duabus etiam dorsi diver- 

 gentibus nigris, spatio intermedio ochreo-albido ; post, griseis. 



Male. — 8 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish-ochreous, 

 mixed with fuscous. Antennae dark fuscous. Legs whitish-grey-ochreous, 

 anterior and middle tibiae and all tarsi suffused with dark fuscous, except at 

 apex of joints. Forewings narrow, costa moderately arched, hindmargin 

 very obliquely rounded ; light greyish-ochreous ; a suffused elongate blackish 

 patch in disc above middle ; an inwardly oblique suffused blackish mark on 

 inner margin before middle, before which the ground-colour is somewhat 

 mixed with blackish ; an outwardly oblique slightly curved broad blackish 

 spot from inner margin before anal angle, extending suffusedly to apex ; 

 the space between these three blackish marks is ochreous-whitish, which 

 colour is suffusedly produced along submedian fold to base ; three small 

 suffused dark fuscous spots on costa towards apex : cilia ochreous-whitish, 

 mixed with dark fuscous towards base. Hindwings fuscous-grey; cilia 

 ochreous-grey- whitish. 



One of the smallest and most insignificant-looking of the Tortricina, in 

 markings somewhat recalling Hoi. thalassinana , Meyr. 



One specimen taken near Lake Coleridge in March. 

 17. Strepsiceros, Meyr. 



Thorax smooth. Antennae in male ciliated, with an excavated notch a 

 little above basal joint. Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint roughly 



