136 Lloyd's natural ihstory. 



pinara cana. 



{Plate CXI., Figs. 2, 3.) 



Pinara cana, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Bril. Mus. iii. p. 761, 

 no. I (1855); vii. p. 1711 (1856). 



This is a common species in Australia and Tasmania. The 

 male measures an inch and a quarter across the wings, and the 

 female about double. The male is brown, with very strongly 

 pectinated antennae, and a large black basal tuft; the fore- 

 wings are blackish at the base and brown beyond. Beyond 

 the middle runs a rather indistinct white transverse line, curved 

 inwards at the costa, where it is broadest, beyond which is a 

 rather irregular, oblique row of black conical spots, marked on 

 the inner side with orange. The hind-wings are broadly black 

 towards the costa, orange-tawny on the hind margin, and 

 brownish on the inner margin. The female is grey, shading 

 into brownish towards the costa of the fore-wings, and whitish 

 on the hind-wings ; the fore-wings are crossed by slightly 

 oblique rows of black spots, marked inwardly with tawny, as in 

 the male, within which is a faint trace of the commencement 

 of the white line on the costa. The body is pale grey, slightly 

 tinged with tawny on the thorax ; the antennae are black. 



There are several closely allied Australian species of 

 Fi?iara. 



FAMILY XXXVII. ZEUZERID^.. 



Egg (of FJiragmatix'cia castanece). — Thin-shelled, smooth, 

 somewhat iridescent (Mellins). 



Larva. — Almost naked, with a few scattered hairs; boring 

 gallt-ries in growing wood, or living in reeds. 



