446 NociuiD^. 



Fore tarsi with long curved claws on outer side of 1st three 

 joints, the claws at extremity of joints stout. 



Hab. ? U.S.A., E. Florida (Doiibleday), 1 $ type. Exp. 42 millim. 



The type has the abdomen of a male of some other species stuck 

 onto it, and will probably prove to bo from New Zealand. 



*1788. Physetica micrasta. (Plate XCI. fig. 3.) 



Leucania micrasta, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 383 ; Hudson, New 

 Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 12, pi. iv. f. 10. 



2 . Head and thorax bright rufous, the hairs tipped with white; 

 abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing bright rufous ; the costal area 

 slightly irrorated with whitish ; the veins slightly streaked with 

 fuscous and irrorated with white ; an antemedial fuscous point on 

 vein 1, defined by white points on each side of it ; a fuscous point 

 at lower angle of cell with white point on each side of it ; a curved 

 postmedial series of slight fuscous points defined by white points. 

 Hind wing reddish ochreous suffused with brown ; cilia ochreous 

 with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish tinged 

 and irrorated with rufous. 



Hab. New Zealand, "Wellington, type t in Coll. Meyrick, Karori. 

 Exp. 46 millim. 



Genus CERAMICA. 



Type. 

 Ceramica, Guen. Noct. i. p. 343 (1852) picta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint 

 fringed with hair, the 3rd short ; eyes large, rounded ; antennte of male 

 ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair only and without distinct 

 crests ; tibiae fringed with hair on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal crest on 

 basal segment and slight lateral tufts of hair towards extremity. Fore wing 

 with the apex produced and acute ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell, 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from 

 below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



1789. Ceramica picta. 



Mamrsfra picfa, Harr. Eep. Ins. Mass. p. 329 (1841); Riley, 2nd Rep. 



Ins. Mo. p. 112, f. 82 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 120. 

 Ceramica exusta, Guen. Noct. i. p. 344 (1852). 

 Mythimna contraria, Wlk. ix. 78 (1S56). 



Head and thorax dark chocolate-brown, some of the hairs tipped 

 with white, especially on dorsal ridge ; pectus brown and grey ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the extremity and ventral surface tinged with 

 purplish. Fore wing purplish red, suffused with deep purple- 

 brown, especially on costal half and terminal area, the costal half 

 irrorated with white to just below cell ; claviform a small dark 

 mark, sometimes with white scales at centre and with a diflfused 

 yellowish streak beyond it; orbicular a small indistinct whitish 

 annulus ; reniform rather indistinct, fuscous with whitish centre 



