Agaristidae 
(2) Alypia disparata Henry Edwards. (The Mexican 
Forester.) 
Syn. gracilenta Grsef; desperata Kirby. 
The structural features 
of this species are shown 
in the accompanying cut, 
for the use of which we 
are indebted to the kind¬ 
ness of Sir George F. 
Fig. 82 —Alypia disparata , $ . A. Hampson. The insect 
(After Hampson.) occurs in southern Texas, 
Arizona, and Mexico. The 
writer has a large series collected for him in the neighborhood of 
Jalapa, where it is apparently more common than farther north. 
(3) Alypia octomaculata Fabricius, Plate XVII, Figs. 16, 
20, $, Fig. 21, $, (The Eight-spotted Forester.) 
Syn. bimaculata Gmelin; quadriguttalis Hiibner; matuta Henry 
Edwards. 
This very common insect, which sometimes proves a 
veritable plague by the depredations which it commits upon 
the foliage of the Ampelopsis, 
which is extensively grown in 
our cities as a decorative vine, 
is found everywhere in the 
northern Atlantic States, and 
ranges westward beyond the 
Mississippi. One good thing 
which can be set down to the 
English sparrow is the work, 
which he has been observed by 
the writer to do in devouring 
the larvse of this moth from the 
vines with which his home is 
covered. 
(4) Alypia wittfeldi Henry 
Edwards, Plate XVII, Fig. 18, $ , Fig. 19, $ . (Wittfeld’s Forester.) 
Sir George F. Hampson sinks this species as a synonym 
of A. octomaculata, but the writer cannot agree with him in 
this. The form of the spots on the primaries, the white at the 
M 4 
Fig. 83. —Alypia octomaculata. 
a. larva; b. enlarged somite, 
showing markings; c. moth. 
(After Riley.) 
