314 Catalogue of North American Sphinges. 
which in the fore-wings is nearly oval and slightly narrowed in 
the middle, in the hind-wings larger, kidney-shaped and almost 
divided in two; palpi beneath, a spot before the anterior coxe, 
the tips of the tarsal joints above, and the hind-edges of the last 
three or four abdominal segments white. Expands from six to 
eight lines.» - 
This species comes very near to the fenestrata of Europe, but 
is sufficiently distinct from it. 
Mr. Doubleday has presented to me a much larger species of 
Thyris, which was captured by him in Florida, and was new to 
my collection. There isa figure of it in M. Boisduval’s Hist. 
Nat. Ins. Lépidopt. Vol. I, pl. 14, where it is named T. lugubris. 
This name has not yet received the proper sanction of a descrip- 
tion; but, taking into consideration the circumstances under 
which this nondescript came into my possession, I do not think 
proper to describe it myself at this time. 
Tribe I. SPHINGES ADSCIT®. L. 
Family IV. AGARISTIADAE. H. The Agaristians. 
Hesperi-Sphinges. Latr. Agaristides, Boisd. Zygenida. Kirby. | 
| Genus XIII. Anypra. (Hiibner.) Kirby. 
Zyzena and Sesia. F.  Agarista. Latr. 
A, octomaculata. F. 
Black ; with two sulphur-yellow spots on the fore-wings, and 
two white ones on the hind-wings; shoulder-covers and front 
sulphur-yellow ; first and second pairs of tibie thickly covered 
with orange-colored hairs. Expands from eleven to fifteen lines. 
Larva, as represented by Abbot, (Ins. Georg. p. 8, pl. 44,) eylin- 
drical, elongated ; yellow, with transverse rows of black points, 
slightly hairy, and without a caudal horn. It lives on the grape- 
Vine, and encloses itself in a cocoon in the earth. 
Iu some individuals there is a white spot near the end of the 
abdomen, and the inner white spots of the hind-wings are €0- 
larged and cover the whole base of the wings. Mr. Kirby (Fauna 
Bor. Amer. IV, p. 301, pl. 4, fig. 5,) has described another spectes 
of Alypia, a native of Nova Scotia and Canada, and names it A. 
MacCullochii. 
