LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



FAMILY XXXVI. PINARID.E. 



In this family I include several Indian, African, and Aus- 

 tralian genera usually placed in the Lasiocauipidi^, but which 

 differ greatly in the size and structure of the sexes. In the males, 

 the fore-wings are long, pointed, and triangular, the hind margin 

 being very oblique and the hind-wings small and rounded. 

 The antennae are long, and strongly pectinated, sometimes 

 throughout, while sometimes the pectinations become much 

 shorter beyond the middle. The abdomen is long, compara- 

 tively slender, and tapering, and extends much beyond the hind- 

 wings. The females, on the contrary, are stout-bodied moths 

 with the wings much broader and more rounded than in the 

 males ; the antennne are shorter than in the male, and slightly, 

 if at all, pectinated. The palpi in both sexes are pilose and 

 rather prominent,with the third joint short. The larvae have tufts 

 of very long hairs on the sides, those on the front segments 

 being longest, and directed forwards, and there are frequently 

 two transverse round hairy prominences on the anterior 

 segments. 



GENUS ANDRAPIITSTA. 



This genus is allied to Gononieta, of Walker, the type of 

 which is G. postica^ Walker, from Natal ; but it differs in the 

 longer and more pointed wings in both sexes, and in the long 

 sub-caudate and dentated wings of tlie male. The sexes differ 

 greatly in appearance in this, as in all the genera of this family, 

 but they agree in being very pilose, and in having very broad 

 laterally compressed palpi with a long second and short terminal 

 joint. In the male, the antennae are very strongly pectinated, 

 but become suddenly filiform towards the tip. The abdomen 

 is long, and extends for half its length beyond the hind-wings, 

 and appears to be of equal breadth nearly to the tip, but 



