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a more scientific footing and a check put on the practise which is so 

 prevalent in certain quarters of describing at random every thing which 

 seems to show variation. 



I repeat what I said in my paper on butterflies of China and Japan in 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1881, p. 857, "that the time was gone by when 

 species could be described wholesale without comparison with a series 

 of all the allied forms in neighboring regions.'' 



NEW SPECIES OF ^GERIAD.^. 



BY HENRY EDWARDS. 

 /SCIAPTERON PRyECEDENS. n. Sp. 



Allied to S. polisiifonnis, Harris, but narrower in the wings, smaller, 

 and of different coloration. Antennce, brownish orange, black at the 

 tips. Head and thorax black, with some red scales. The tegulae are 

 bright reddish brown. Abdom., glossy black, with some red scales 

 laterally at base. Three anal segments and caudal tuft bright lemon 

 yellow. Fore wings brown, with a basal vitreous streak, stained along 

 the internal margin with dull red. Hind wings vitreous at their base, 

 the vitreous space a little larger than in S. polisfifoniiis. lieneath, 

 both wings are streaked with red and yellow. The femora are reddish, 

 tibire black, hind tarsi lemon yellow. 



Exp. of wing, 30 mm. Length of body, 14 mm. 



I. $ N. Carolina. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



The yellow tip to the abdomen will at once serve to distinguish the 

 species. 



. ^GERIA BOLTERI, n. Sp. 



'&\zt. oi ^^g.fuIvipes,VLdiXX\s. Palpi, deep orange. Thorax, head, 

 antennce and abdomen, brassy brown, the latter with a very broad belt 

 of fiery copper-red around 5th and 6th segments. Hind tibiae and tarsi 

 brownish, the latter silvery white within. Fore wings with margin very 

 narrow purplish black. The discal mark also purplish black, edged 

 posteriorly with golden orange. The opaque space is wholly golden 

 orange, with purple streaks. Caudal tuft, brown black. 



I. $, N. Illinois. Collected by my friend, Mr. A. Bolter, to whom I 

 dedicate the species. Type. Coll. Hy. Edwards. 



^GERIA ^MULA, n. Sp. 



Very like ^^g. tipuliformis, L., but much smaller and slenderer in 

 all its parts. Palpi, sides of the thorax beneath, coxge, and anterior 

 legs pale lemon yellow. Posterior legs banded with bluish black. 

 Thorax above bluish black, with narrow pale lemon yellow lateral 

 stripes. Abdomen, bluish black, with four narrow bands of pale lemon 

 color. Caudal tuft bluish black above and beneath; lemon yellow at 

 the sides. Fore wings, with the opaque portions narrower than in .^g- 



