Catalogue of North American Sphinges. 313 
This destructive insect is nota native, but has been introdu- 
eed from Europe with the cultivated currant-bush. 
8. 42. scitula. H. 
Purple-black ; wings transparent, with the margins golden yel- 
low ; the first pair with a narrow purple-brown band beyond the 
middle and a broad one at the tip ornamented with golden yel-— 
low lines ; fringes blackish ; front and orbits covered with silvery 
| white hairs; antenne black ; palpi, collar, upper edges of the 
~ shoulder-covers, a narrow band at the base of the abdomen, a dor- 
| sal spot behind it, a broad band around the middle, the lateral 
edges of the fan-shaped tail, anterior coxe, sides of the breast, 
tibie and tarsi except at the joints, with the spurs golden yellow. 
_ Expands about eight lines. 
This beautiful little species is easily distinguished by the prev- 
| alence of yellow on the under-side of the body and legs. 
9. 42. Pyri. H. (New-England Farmer. ) 
Purple-black ; Wings transparent, with the margins, a narrow 
band beyond the middle of the first pair, and a broad one at tip 
Purple-black, the latter streaked with brassy yellow; antenne 
blackish ; palpi beneath, collar, edges of the shoulder-covers, a 
broad band across the middle of the abdomen, a narrow one be- 
fore it, an indistinct transverse line at base, the posterior half of 
the abdomen beneath, the sides of the breast, anterior coxe, legs 
except the joints of the tibie, and the lateral edges of the wedge- 
| shaped tail golden yellow. Expands six lines anda half. Larva 
ves under the bark of the pear-tree. 
For some further particulars respecting this species, see my 
ommunication in the New-England Farmer, Vol. LX. p. 2, 1830. 
__M. Edward Doubleday presented me with a new species of 
4igeria which he captured in Florida, and Dr. J. W. Randall has 
Still another which was taken in Massachusetts. 'T'o these gen- 
*men belongs the right of first naming and describing these spe- 
“les which they have discovered, and I do not feel myself author- 
ized to anticipate them. 
Genus XIL Tyrts. Illiger. 
T. maculata. H. (Catalogue.) 
Brownish black, sprinkled with rust-yellow dots ; hind-mar- 
8s of the wings deeply scalloped, with the edges of the inden- 
‘ations white ; each of the wings with a transparent white spot, 
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