AmerigAna 



VOL. III. 



BROOKLYN, MARCH, 1888, 



NO. 12. 



Catalogue of Species of the Higher FamiHes of the North 



American HETEROCERA, described since Grote's 



"New Check List" (1872), with those omitted 



from that pubHcation. 



By Henry Edwakds. 



In my studies of late years among the Bombycidai and allied groups 

 belonging to our fauna, I iiave very frequently come upon names of 

 species, given by early authors, to which I could find no reference in any 

 cjf our catalogues, or the works accessible to me, and I adopted the plan 

 of making a card list of these for my personal use. This system enabled 

 me to clear up many doubts and perplexities, and I have deemed that 

 the results of my labors might prove acceptable to my entomological 

 friends. The results I hope soon to publish under the title of "Popular 

 Talks about the Higher Heterocera of North America." but I find it an 

 absolute necessity before doing so, that a full list of all our species de- 

 scribed up to this time, should be before me, and I therefore offer the 

 present catalogue as a contribution in that direction. It may possibly be 

 objected, that I have introduced into my list names long consigned to 

 oblivion, but I think it best (as they are but few) that their real meaning 

 should be made known, and that they should find their proper place in 

 synonymy. Among them are some of Walker's species, and if the publi- 

 cation of them in this list will induce Mr. Butler, Mr. Kirby, or Mr. 

 Grote, to enlighten us upon them, their mention now will not have been 

 made in \ain. I allude more especially to species described and quoted 

 by Walker in the "British Museum Catalogues," and to those mentioned 



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