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CATALOGUE OF 
3. Thyris lugubris. 
Cupreo-nigra ; caput albo bimaculatum ; palpi suhlus albi ; tho- 
rax fascia antica macuiisque 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 w f ith 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 coxae, the 
tips of the tarsal joints above, and the hind edges of the last three or 
four abdominal segments white.” 
Massachusetts. 
Genus 14. THYRETES. 
Corpus longiusculum, sat angustum. Caput et thorax pilosa. 
Proboscis brevis. Palpi breves, graciles ; articulus 3us lanceolatus. 
Antennae corporis dimidio multo longiores. Abdomen pubescens, 
alas posticas dimidio superans. Pedes longiusculi ; tibiae postic® 
calcaribus duobus apicalibus minutis. Alae longae, angustae, ex 
parte limpidae ; anticae apud costam rectae, apice rotundatae, margine 
