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Allied to P. tephrina, Meyr., distinguishable by the 

 white head and hindwings. 



Hab. — Victoria: Gisborne ; two specimens, taken in April 

 by Mr. G. Lyell. 



CORETHROPALPA MELANONEURA. 



Saropla melanoneum, Meyr. : Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 

 1884, p. 744. 



Uorethropalpa fcdcata, Turn.: ante, 1896, p. 28. 



Hab. — Queensland : Brisbane ; New South Wales : 

 Sydney ; Shoalhaven. 



Protomacha leucophara, Turn. : Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. Wales, 1914, p. 558. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Ebor. 



Protomacha cathara, Turn. : I.e., p. 559. 

 Hab. — New South Wales: Ebor. 



Protomacha anthracina, n. sp. (avOpdiavos, coal-black). 



9, 14-17 mm. Head black; face with a few white scales. 

 Palpi black irrorated with white. Antennae black. Thorax 

 black. Abdomen grey, bases of segments on dorsum ochreous- 

 brown. Legs dark-fuscous irrorated with whitish ; posterior 

 pair grey irrorated with whitish. Forewings not dilated, 

 costa rather strongly arched, apex acute, termen sinuate 

 oblique ; black with fine white streaks and a few scattered 

 white scales ; two fine parallel streaks from base to ^ disc, the 

 lower sometimes double ; sometimes a fine subcostal streak, 

 and another on fold running into dorsum ; cilia black with 

 several fine white bars. Hindwings and cilia grey. 



Worn examples are merely fuscous, and the white mark- 

 ings lost. 



Hab. — Queensland: Brisbane, in October and February; 

 Stradbroke Island, in November and January ; Southport, in 

 February; six specimens. 



Protomacha straminea, n. sp. (stramineus, straw-coloured). 



<5 , 12 mm. Head pale-ochreous. Palpi whitish- 

 ochreous, second joint with basal half and a subapical ring 

 dark-fuscous. Antennae pale-grey ; ciliations in male not 

 quite 1. Thorax pale-ochreous. Abdomen grey. Legs 

 whitish-ochreous ; anterior pair grey. Forewings rather 

 narrow, costa gently arched, apex pointed, termen very 

 obliquely rounded ; pale-ochreous ; an erect fuscous line from 

 tornus reaching slightly beyond middle of disc ; cilia with 

 basal half pale-ochreous, apical half grey. Hindwings and 

 cilia pale-grey. 



