74 CATALOGUE OF 



3. Thyris lugubris. 



Cupreo -nigra ; caput albo bimaculatum ; palpi sub tus albi ; tho- 

 rax fascia antica maculisque duabus lateralibus albis ; abdo- 

 men maculis duabus anticis dorsalibus punctisque duobus 

 posticis lateralibus albis ; pedes albo fasciati ; alee fascia, 

 guttisque punctisque nonnullis vitreis. 



Thyris lugubris, Boisd. Spec, Gen. Lep. i. pi. 14, f. 11. 



a — d. St. John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, 



Esq. 



4. Thyris sepulchralis. 



Thyris sepulchralis, Boisd. Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. Ins. pi. 84, bis 



f. 1. 

 Thyris lugubris, var. P 



5. Thyris maculata. 



Fusco-nigra ; palpi subtus albi ; abdominis segmenta marginibus 

 posticis albis ; pedes albo-cincti ; alee maculis quatuor albo 

 hyalinis, marginibus exterioribus excavatis albis. 



Thyris maculata, Harris, Cat. ; Descr. Cat. N. Amer. Sphing. 

 (Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xxxvi. 2) 33. 



" Brownish black, sprinkled with rust-yellow dots ; hind margins 

 of the wings deeply scalloped, with the edges of the indentations 

 white ; each of the wings with a transparent white spot, 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 coxa?, the 

 tips of the tarsal joints above, and the hind, edges of the last three or 

 four abdominal segments white." 



Massachusetts. 



Genus 14. THYKETES. 



Corpus longiusculum, sat angustum. Caput et thorax pilosa. 

 Proboscis brevis. Palpi breves, graciles ; articulus 3us lanceolatus. 

 Antenna? corporis dimidio multo longiores. Abdomen pubescens, 

 alas posticas dimidio superans. Pedes longiusculi ; tibia? postica? 

 calcaribus duobus apicalibus minutis. Ala? longa?, angusta?, ex 

 parte limpida? ; antica? apud costam recta?, apice rotundata?, margine 



