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15. Gen. MACROCYTTARA Turn. 
Tr. Ent. Soc. 1918, p.160. 
Head with tuft of scales on crown. Palpi 2; in male ascending, 
thickened with appressed scales, terminal joint minute ; in female more 
slender, porrect. Antennae in male bipectinate to apex ; in female simple. 
Thorax with rough anterior crest. Tibial spurs well developed but short. 
Fore wings with areole long (two-thirds), areole and median cell 
moderate, all veins separate, 11 from areole. Hindwings with median 
cell small and very narrow, upper branch of median short, joining the 
acutely indented angle formed by discocellulars, or absent through 
fusion of this branch with discocellular, 6 and 7 connate or short-stalked. 
Type, M expressa. 
75. Macrocyttara expressa Luc. 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1902, p.246. 
Queensland: Brisbane; bred in large numbers by Mr. R. Illidge 
from larvae tunnelling the stems of the “milky mangrove.’ ’ 
76. Macrocyttara pamphaea. n.sp. 
7ra/ji(/)aL09, wholly dark. 
8 , 32 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark fuscous. Pectus 
white. Palpi porrect, exceeding face; fuscous. Antennae dark fuscous; 
pectinations in male 2. Legs fuscous with white bars. Forewings 
suboblong, costa nearly straight, apex rounded, termen rounded, slightly 
oblique; dark fuscous with slender blackish transverse lines and 
strigulae ; cilia fuscous, bases and apices slenderly whitish. 
Queensland : Cunnamulla in October ; one specimen. 
