4 *8 CATALOGUE OF 



3. Ceramica V-album. 

 Fusca; abdomen cinereum ; ala anticce cinereo varia> % lineis trans- 



versis obscunoribus, macula orbiculari minima alba, reniformi 

 sat magna albido ex parte marginata ; posticce pallidiores, 

 ciliis cams. r 



Ceramica V-albura, Guen. Noct. i. 345, 577. 



a. East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Australia; 



4. Ceramica Maryx. 



Fccra Nigro-rubra; thorax villosus, subhirsutus : ala anticce 

 plagisnonnullissubpallidioribus, lineis transversis indistinctis 

 macula reniformi e squamis nonnullis albidis ; postica ob- 

 scure cinerea, hnea duplici marginali ciliisque pallidioribus, 

 subtus albidce, costa lineaque mediana rubris. 



Ceramica Maryx, Guen. Noct. i. 344, 575. 



Australia. 



Genus 5. HYSSIA. 

 Corpus robustum. Proboscis breviuscula. Palpi graciles, in- 

 cumbentes; articulus 2us hirsutus; 3us pilosus, 2o confusus. An- 

 tennae graciles, breviusculae, simplices, maris pubescentes. Thorax 

 subrotundus lanuginosa. Abdomen laeve, carinatum, apice fasci- 

 culatum. Pedes graciles, mediocriter longi ; tibiae subpilosa?, non 

 spinosae. Alae anticae apud costam subrectae, apice acuminata? 

 margine extenore mtegro subobliquo, maculis tribus optime deter- 

 mmatis, hnea transversa submarginali conspicua. 

 Hyssia, Guen. Noct. i. 345. 

 Orthosia, p., Herr.'Scharff. 



Body stout. Proboscis rather short. Palpi slender, incum- 

 bent; second joint hirsute ; third pilose, hardly distinguishable from 

 the second Antennae slender, rather short, simply pubescent in the 

 male. lhorax nearly round, lanuginose. Abdomen smooth, 

 keeled, tufted at the tip. Legs slender, of moderate length ; tibiae 

 slightly pilose, without spines. Fore wings nearly straight along 

 the lore border, acuminated at the tips, entire and slightly oblique 

 along the exterior border; the three spots very distinct, and the 

 submurginal transverse line well defined. 



