"Eyes smooth. Tongue developed. Posterior tibiæ with all spurs present.
Hind-wings with veins 6 and 7 connate or stalked (rarely approximated or
coincident), 8 anastomosing with cell nearly or quite from base to middle
or beyond."--(Meyrick.) (See Plate II., figs. 1, 2, and 4, 5.)
This interesting family, although generally distributed throughout the
world, is very poorly represented in New Zealand. Unlike most of the
_Caradrinina_, many of the included species are day fliers and gaily
coloured. One of these, _Nyctemera annulata_, is probably one of the most
familiar of New Zealand insects, whilst the four remaining representatives
of the family are but seldom seen. To British entomologists the name of
{2}"tiger moths" will probably at once recall several conspicuous and
beautiful members of this family.