PAPILIO. 



Prgan ot tl^e fJew Jork pntomological piub. 



Vol.1.] November, 1881. [No. lO. 



NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF THE FAMILY 

 ^GERID^. 



By Henry Edwards. 



The study of this difficult and little known group has for 

 some time past engaged my attention, and the kindness of many 

 friends throughout the United States, whose generosity shall be 

 hereafter fully acknowledged, has enabled me to become ac- 

 quainted with a number of new forms. In the course of a few 

 months I hope to be enabled to publish a monograph of the 

 North American species, with colored figures, the difficulty 

 and delay arising from the drawing of the plates presenting the 

 only obstacle to its immediate production. 



In the present paper I have described all the species coming 

 into my hands which appear to me to be new to science. I shall 

 be extremely grateful for corrections of any errors of which I may 

 have been guilty, it being hardly possible for me to escape the 

 commission of a few. Through the kindness of Mr. A. G. Butler, 

 of the British Museum, I have obtained admirable colored draw- 

 ings of Walker's types, the descriptions of which I have copied 

 and added to the present paper. A plate of these species is now 

 being prepared by Messrs. Mintern Bros., London, and will be 

 given (if possible) with the December number of " Papilio." 



I here repeat, what I have more than once said, that I shall 

 be deeply indebted for the loan of any species of .^geridse, more 

 especially from the southern, western and extreme northern por- 

 tions of the continent. These shall be carefully preserved and 

 returned as early as possible. 



I have scarcely thought it desirable, in the present paper, to 



