PAPILIO. 



Prgan of tl^e ]^ew Jork f ntomological piub. 



Vol. 2,] October, 1882. [No. 8. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF N. AM. 

 HETEROCERA. 



By Henry Edwards. 

 FAM. ^GERIAD^. 



V ^GERIA CANDESCENS. n. sp. 



Fore wings purplish-brown, with a transparent median streak 

 as far as the cell, edged on the internal margin with whitish. 

 The discal mark purplish-brown, edged outwardly with orange- 

 red. Transparent space behind the cell very small, reduced to 

 four narrow streaks. Fringe golden brown. Hind wings with 

 the margin rather broad, purple brown. Head blackish-brown, 

 collar, palpi and orbits of eyes clear white. Thorax and ab- 

 domen blackish-brown, the latter with the segments all rather 

 broadly edged with greenish-white. Caudal tuft wholly black. 

 Fore wings beneath with golden lustre, and the discal mark bright 

 orange, shading into purplish-brown on margin. Hind wings as 

 on upper side. Fore coxae white outwardly, the rest of the legs 

 blackish-brown, with golden scales, the tarsi narrowly banded 

 with black. 



Exp. wings, 15 m. m. 



I $ Arizona. (H. K. Morrison.) Coll, B. Neumoegen. 

 '. Pyrrhot.enia Behrensii. n. sp. 



Fore wings entirely opaque, rich golden-green, purplish- 

 brown posteriorly, with the internal margin broadly orange-red, 

 narrowing in width towards the internal angle. The hind wings 

 are also stained with orange-red along the abdominal margin. 

 They are perfectly transparent, the outer portion of the margin 

 and the fringe golden-brown. Beneath, the fore wings are rich pur- 

 plish-brown, with the base and about half of the costal and in- 

 ternal margins orange-red. . The hind wings have a golden refliec- 



