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Genus 4. CERAMICA. 



Corpus mediocriter rohustum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. 

 Palpi porrecti, pilosi, caput vix superantes ; articulus 3us longi- 

 conicus, minimus. Antennas corporis dimidio multo longiores. 

 Abdomen alas posticas vix superans. Pedes validi ; tibiae posticae 

 calcaribus longis. Alae .mediocriter latae ; anticae apud costam 

 rectae, apice subacumiuatae, marline exteriore convexo sat obliquo. 

 Mas. — Antennae subciliatae, vix serratae. 



Ceramica, Guen. Noct. i. 343. 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 

 porrect, pilose, hardly extending beyond the head ; third joint elon- 

 gate-conical, not more than one-sixth of the length of the second. 

 Antennae much more than half the length of the body. Abdomen 

 hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Legs stout ; hind 

 tibiae with four long spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore 

 wings straight in front, slightly acuminated at the tips, con- 

 vex and rather oblique along the exterior border. Male. — Antennae 

 minutely ciliated, hardly serrated. 



South America. 



1 . Ceramica exusta. 



Mas. Ferruginea ; abdomen pallide ferrugineum, bast cinereum ; 

 alee anticce costa vittaque discali diffusa nigricantibus ; pos- 

 . . ticce alba. 



Ceramica exusta, Guen. Noct. i. 344, 574. 



a. New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



2. Ceramica vindemialis. 



Rufa ; abdomen canescens ; alee anticce unicolores, maculis lineis- 

 que nul lis ; posticce pallide rufescentes, ciliis albidis. 



Ceramica vindemialis, Guen. Noct. i. 344, 576. 



St. John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



