PINARA. 135 



and there are often some yellowish markuigs towards the 

 hind margin. The female is much larger and paler, being 

 reddish-brown, with purplish shades ; the white spot at the 

 end of the cell is larger and more distinct, and there is another 

 towards the base. 



" Larva. — Male greyish-brown, female mostly grey, nume- 

 rously covered with short longitudinal black strigce ; slightly 

 hairy above, the hairs pale brown, densely tufted with paler, 

 brown-spotted, decumbent hairs along the side below the 

 spiracles, the tufts projecting from warty protuberances : on 

 front of third and fourth segments is a transverse raised pro- 

 tuberance, from each of which a dense short tuft of black 

 hairs projects forward, and on twelfth and last segment is a 

 short conical protuberance, the former of which is hairy. Head 

 black-striped. Cocoon greyish-ochreous. Pupa purple-red. 

 Feeds on Careya arhorea, Sec— {Dr. Thwaiies)'' {Moore) 



The full-grown larva is not unlike that of Gastropacha 

 qv.ercifolia. 



GENUS riNARA. 



rinara, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 761 (1855). 

 Entometa, Walker, op. at. iv. p. 973 (1S55). 

 RJiinogyne, Felder, Reis. Novara, Lepid. iv. pi. 84, figs. 9, 10 

 (1874). 



In this genus, the pal[)i are stout, pilose, and prominent, the 

 antennoc arc long, and strongly pectinated to the tips in the 

 male ; and short, and minutely serrated beneath towards the 

 tips, in the female. The legs arc stout and hairy, and the hind 

 tibise are armed with two short apical spurs. 



This genus is confined to Australia and Tasmania, and the 

 sexes are very dissimilar, not only in size and shape, but also 

 in colour. 



