CYCETHRA; PINARA. By Dr. K. Grunberg. 
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P. notodontina Fldr. (33 f). Body and forewing blackish-grey. Antennae light brown. Forewing with notodontina 
a distinct, white, black-margined discal spot and a distinct, black, prediscal and postdiscal dentate band; the 
blackish submarginal band being broken up into spots is less distinct. Margin black and spotted white. Hind¬ 
wing white with a black margin, in the $ with a darkened basal part and a diffuse submarginal band. Beneath 
with a blackish discal band which in the hindwing is only distinct at the costal margin. Australia and Tasmania. 
P. arida Wkr. (= lignaria Wkr., nubila Wkr., metastigma Wkr., contracta Wkr.) (33 f). Light greyish- arida. 
brown or yellowish-grey or rather light whitish-grey, forewing with a smaller white discal spot and a blackish, 
deeply dentated prediscal and postdiscal band which are more remote from each other at the costal margin, 
more closely together at the proximal margin; behind the postdiscal band, at the proximal margin, a rather 
large, black, sometimes pale or indistinct spot; a row of dark sub marginal spots on a whitish ground; marginal 
scales spotted dark. Hindwing brownish or grey, somewhat darker or also lighter than the forewing, with an 
indistinct, often scarcely noticeable light median band, at the anal angle somewhat darkened, marginal scales 
less distinctly spotted. Australia. 
P. subfasciata Wkr. $ light brown, head above and prothorax white. Palpi beneath and at the tips subfasciata 
white. Antennae black. Legs black with partly white hairing. Tarsi banded white. Forewing with a white 
discal spot partly edged with a dark brown, and prediscal, discal, and submarginal, somewhat irregular white 
bands, the latter enclosing the dark submarginal spots. Hindwing somewhat lighter than the forewing with an 
indistinct, light discal transverse band and a whitish margin. Australia. 
P. notabilis Wkr. (= mioleuca Meyr.) (32 g). Grey with a whitish abdomen. Palpi blackish. Forewing notabilis. 
with a white, black-marginecl discal spot and a blackish prediscal and postdiscal band, the former rectilinear 
and vertical, proximally bordered with white, the latter oblique, undulate and distally bordered with white. 
Submarginal line very much bevelled; dark grey; slightly undulate, broken up into spots. Hindwing white. 
Australia and Tasmania. 
36. Genus : Cycetlira B.-Bak. 
A most aberrant genus, the position of which is still uncertain and which is for the present provi¬ 
sionally inserted in the Lasiocampidae. Hitherto only the $ known. Palpi short, hairy, antennae up to the 
apex with short pinnae. Forewing with an extraordinarily oblong accessory cell from which the veins 7, 8, 
9 and 10 rise separately. Hindwing with only one inner-marginal vein, vein 4 from the posterior cell-end, 5 
from the discal vein, 8 separate. No frenulum. The author unfortunately does not make any statements as 
to the contours of the wings and other marks. The only species known is rather large, the $ has an expanse 
of more than 100 mm. 
C. aroa B.-Bak. 105 mm. Body and wings reddish-brown, forewing only thinly scaled and diaphanous, aroa. 
with 2 dark spots in the cell and an almost rectilinear, dark postmedian line proximally bordered with light; 
the marginal part behind the latter of a greyish ground-colour. Hindwing also with dark cellular spots, the 
basal one of which is especially intensely dark. British New Guinea (Aroa River). 
37. Genus: Piiiara Wkr. 
The species of this genus are distinguished by an intense sexual dimorphism not only expressed by 
the size of the body and shape of the wings, but especially by the colouring. 
Antennae in the <$ densely set with long pinnae, the branches of which gradually shorten towards the 
apex, in the $ almost filiform with very short branches. Palpi short, porrect, densely haired. Abdomen of 
the <$ slender with a dense anal tuft. Forewing oblong, trilateral. Proximal margin and the very much bevelled 
distal margin almost equally long, anal angle in the $ more broadly rounded than in the hindwing broad, 
the anal part in the $ more prominent than in the $. In the forewing veins 6, 7 and 8 forked. The rather 
short footstalk of 9 and 10 right in front of or likewise behind the cell-end rising from the footstalk of 
6, 7 and 8. Costal margin of the $ hindwing at the base rather very much indented. Vein 8 fused with the 
anterior vein of the discoidal cell for some distance, vein 7 rising from 8 only close behind this point of contact; 
4 and 5 jointly from the cell-end or on a short footstalk. Discal vein of forewing rather fine, vertical, in the 
hindwing stronger, very oblique in a posterior and distal direction. The $$ of the different species are 
easily discernible by the scheme of the colouring and marking in spite of their great conformity, but the ?? 
being of a very monotonous colouring and marking are less easily distinguished. The genus is confined to 
Australia. 
P. cana Wkr. (= calligama Fldr. $ nec £) (32 e). Body of the dark greyish-brown, basal part cana. 
of forewing as far as the white discal spot and along the costal margin still farther of a bright red-brown; white 
