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There is room for a journal to cover the field proposed to be 

 covered by this paper, and if it is as well done as it ought to be by 

 the gentlemen above named, it will be indispensible for every work- 

 ing entomologist. 



Bibliographical Catalogue of the described transformations of North American 

 Lepidoptera by Henry Edwards. Bulletin No. 35 of the U. S. National 

 Museum. 



No more generally useful, and to the Lepidopterist indispensi- 

 ble work, has been issued for some time. It is a valuable guide to 

 those who breed insects, for it enables them to see what has been 

 done, and to fill up omissions. It ought to prevent the continual 

 redescription of species described in all stages ad nauseum, while 

 some of the many species that I know have been bred should now be 

 published. 



According to this list a grand total of 1069 species are known 

 in some of the early stages. Of these the Rhopalocera have 180 

 species, the Sphingida; 55; Sesiidce, 16; Zyg'^'^^i^cB (^/ff), 13; Bom- 

 byces, 178; Noctuidcs, 188; Geometridce, loi; Pyralidce, 39; Tor- 

 tricidcE, 61; TineidcB, 222; Pterophoridce , 16. 



Mr. Edwards deserves the thanks of all Lepidopterists for this 

 painstaking and extremely useful work. 



New Species of Mexican Lepidoptera. 



BY WM. SCHAUS, JR. 



ERYCINID^. 

 Subfamily ERYCiNiNiE. 



Garia melicerta n. sp. Above deep brown, with a slightly lilacine bloom 

 on the wings; several indistinct wavy transverse bands of a darker shade of 

 brown. The outer margins reddish brown divided by a steel gray line; a 

 submarginal dark line outwardly bordered on the secondaries by a metallic 

 green streak, and about the center of the costal margin of the primaries is a 

 cluster of metallic green scales. Underneath reddish brown, darker at the 

 apex of the primaries, spotted with black. Along the costal margin of the 

 primaries a series of metallic gray spots, a marginal line of the same character 

 on the primaries, and a'marginal and submarginal row of similar spots on the 

 secondaries. The 9 differs above in being paler, having the transverse bands 



