LASIOCAMPID.E. 269 



Type. New Holland, in B. M. 



a. Australia. b. South Australia. c. Queensland. d. 



New South Wales. 



1250. Pinara metaphaBa. 



Opsirhina metaphaa. Walker: xxxii. 556 (1865). 

 Type ?. Moreton Bay, in B. M. 



a. Van Diemen's Land (<J). b. Moreton Bay (9). c. New 



Holland (9). 



Genus TICERA. Gen. Nov. 



Allied to Pinara and Taragama. 



<5 Palpi obliquely porrect, thickly fringed with hair and met by the 

 frontal tuft ; antennae heavily bipectinated on basal half, serrate 

 towards apex. Fore-wing long and narrow, the outer margin very 

 oblique, vein 3 from before end of cell, 4 and 5 from end of cell ; 6, 

 7, and 8 stalked ; 9 and 10 also stalked. Hind-wing with the apex 

 acute, the outer margin excised, the anal angle produced and acute ; 

 vein 3 from before end of cell, 4 and 5 stalked, 8 bent down and 

 touching 7, which is emitted before the end of cell ; one veinlet to the 

 costa from near the base of 8. 

 Type (7". castanea). Mihi. 



Genus Ticera. 



1251. Ticera castanea, n. sp. 



<J Of a uniform dark bright chestnut red colour, palpi and frons 

 greyish yellow, two similar coloured bands across fore-part of thorax 

 and one in the centre, from which a similar band runs down each 

 side of the thorax. Fore-wings with two greyish yellow, indistinct 

 sinuous transverse bands best indicated on costa and hinder margin, 

 the first before the middle, the second just beyond, both apparently 

 very oblique, the first marked on the costa about the centre and the 

 second near the apex. Underside, wings duller coloured, body grayish 

 yellow. 



Expanse of wings ly^ — if"^ inches. 

 a. Philippine Islands (type). b. Philippine Islands. 



