THTSETTCA. 445 



A. Fore wing blue-grey carulea. 



B. Fore wing purplish red, the hind wing purplish pink vindemudis. 



C. Fore wing rufous, the hind wing reddish ochreous micrasta. 



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1786, Pbysetica cserulea. 



Agrofis cteriilea, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 38 (1868); Hudson, New 

 Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 8, pi. iv. f. 7. 



J . Head and thorax blue-grey irrorated witli whitish ; palpi 

 below, pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous yellow, the dorsal crest 

 grey. Fore wing blue-grey irrorated with whitish ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; faint traces of orbicular and reniform stigmata 

 defined by white ; an indistinct medial shade ; postmedial line 



Fig. 123. — Fhi/seiica Cisruka, S, \. 



indistinct, double, dentate and produced to white points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 traces of a whitish subterminal line slightly defined by fuscous 

 on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. 

 Hind wing fuscous, the basal and inner areas yellowish ; under- 

 side yellowish Avhite. 



2 . "With less of the yellow tinge. 



Nab. jS'ew Zeai-and, (J. J. IValker) 1 J , 1 5 , Marlborough 

 (SkeJhyi, Marsden, Mathew), 2 S ■, ^ $ , N- Island, Wellington, 

 S. Island, Blenheim, Eakaia. Exp. 44 millim. 



1787. Physetica vindemialis. (Plate XCI. fig. 2.) 



Ceramica vindemialis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 344 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 205. 



5 . Head and thorax purple-red, the hairs slightly tipped with 

 grey (abdomen wanting). Fore wing purple-red, very slightly 

 irrorated with grey ; subbasal line obsolete ; faint traces of a 

 curved greyish antemedial line ; orbicular obsolete ; reniform repre- 

 sented by traces of a discoidal lunule and fuscous spot at lower 

 angle of cell ; traces of a dentate postmedial line, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; faint traces of a 

 subterminal line. Hind wing purplish pink, the cilia pale ; the 

 underside white thickly irrorated with purplish pink. 



