Weideineyer was to attend to that at a future convenient time, but lie never made a 

 beginning. The first plates were all drawn from life, but at Plate IX or X Mr. 

 Weidenieyer began to copy figures from books— Cramer, Herbst and others. 1 

 objected to this, but was overruled. All those old figures are coarse, and many quite 

 unrecognizable. 



.^s there were some American species in the collection of the British Museum 

 that had never been figured, I was authorized to secure plates of them if possible. 

 I wrote Mr. Francis Walker, head of the Entomological Section of the Museum, 

 and he very kindly undertook to find an artist and have the species figured. 

 The.se are upon Plates XVI, XVII and XVIII. Our series went as far as Plate 

 XXVIII (?), and suddenly was stopped by Mr. Weidemeyer. He never told me 

 why ; but he sold his whole collection of insects, and gave up the study. About 

 ten years ago I applied to him to know if he would sell me his plates, and the 

 reply was that they were utterly lost, he knew not how. The plates now edited by 

 Dr. Skinner are those which belonged to me. 



WM. H. EDWARDS. 



Coalbiirgh, West Vit-ginia, March 26, igo^. 



