LEPIDOPTEKA HETEROCERA. 59 



Genus 12. ALYPIA. 



Corpus breve, sat robustum. Caput parvura. Oculi mediocres. 

 Proboscis corporis dimidio brevior. Palpi subhirti, caput paullo 

 superantes ; articulus 2us lo paullo longius ; 3us 2o dimidio bre- 

 vior. Antennae extrorsum crassiores, apice attenuate, corporis 



dimidio multo longiores. Thorax crassus. Abdomen gracilius. 

 Alae sat lata?, non elongatag, marginibus rotundatis. Pedes robusti, 

 hirti, calcaribus longis validis. 



Zygaena, p., Fabr. 



Sphinx, p., Hubn. Zutr. ; Abbot fy Smith ; God. 

 Alypia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. Heliacce Nigra Alypice,35\ ; Harris; 

 Kirby. 



] . Alypia octomaculata. 



Nigra ; thoracis margo anticus humerique Jlavi ; alee anticce 

 fiavo bimaculatce, posticce albo binoculatce ; tibice anteriores 

 aurantiacce. 



Zygaena octomaculata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 402, 54. 

 Sphinx octomaculata, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 345, f. C. 

 Sphinx octomaculalis, Hubn. Zutrage, 22, 60, f. 119, 120. 

 Sphinx octomaculata, Godart. Smith fy Abbot, Ins. Georg. 8, 



pi. 44. 

 Alypia octomaculalis, Hubn. Verz, Schmett. 351, 3359. 

 Alypia quadriguttalis, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 351,3360. 

 Alypia octomaculata, Harris, Descr. Cat. N. Amer. Sphin. (Arner. 



Journ. Sci. fy Arts, xxxvi. 2), 34. 



" Black ; with two sulphur-yellow spots on the fore wings, and 

 two white ones on the hind wings ; shoulder- covers and front 

 sulphur-yellow ; fore and middle tibiae thickly covered with orange 

 hairs. Larva cylindrical, elongated, yellow, with transverse rows of 

 black points, slightly hairy, without a caudal horn. Lives on the 

 grape-vine, and encloses itself in a cocoon in the earth." 



North America. 



a — d. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 e. Georgia. From Mr. Milne's collection. 

 /— i. Nova Scotia. From Mr. Children's collection. 

 j, k. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



