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(icnus BELLURA Wlk. 

 1st;:,. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Met., xxxn, 465.. 



Our good friend Walker still influences our catalogues. Itcllarti was 

 described about 200 pages before Arz<una in the same volume, and as 

 the types of Helium and Arzama are the same species, the former will 

 have to be used, even though it was placed in the Bombycid* and was 

 said to be related to Daiann. 



B. gortynides Wlk. 



1865. Wlk., C. B. Mns., Het., xxxn, 465, liellura. 



tlrnxd Wlk. 



1865. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Hefc., xxxn, 645, Arzama. 

 1X68. H. Sch., Corr. Blatt, 1868, Ent. Cul>., 16, Arzama. 

 1868. G. A-. R., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., i, 340, Arzama. 

 1886. (Jundlacli, Cont. Ent. Cnb., 325, Arzama. 



minified Grt. 

 1872 Grt., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., iv, 294, Arzama. 



melanopyga Grt. 

 1881. Grt., Papilio, i, 148, Arzama. 



1881. Comstock, Papilio, I, 148, larva in lily. 



HABITAT. Canada, southward to Florida; west to the Mississippi 

 States. 



The types of Walker's species are in the British Museum, which also 

 contains specimens of Mr. Grote's species not marked type. Where 

 the original types are I can not say. Prof. Comstock may have that of 

 melanopyga. Walker's species are exactly alike save as to degree of 

 imperfection, and I can not make anything different out of vulnijica. 

 The characters given by Mr. Grote for melanopyga are very feeble and 

 are evanescent in character, a fact which he has realized to the extent 

 of citing it a variety in his revised list of 1890. 



B. diffusa Grt. 

 1878. Grt.. Bull. Gcol. Surv., iv, 17!l, Arzama. 



HABITAT. Canada; Maine. 



1 have not seen the type of this species. 



B. obliqua Wlk.' 



1865. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Hot., xxxn, 42S, M,-ma. 



1882. Grt., 111. Essay, 42, = Spliid,i ohlitiiiufa. 

 obliqnata G. Ar. K. 



1868. G. &. R., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., I, 339, pi. 6, f. 47, Arzama. 

 1878. Grt,, Bull. Gcol. Surv., iv, 179, Xpliiita. 

 1878. Worth., Can. Ent., x, 15, larva. 



1883. Grt., Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., xxi, 157, Sphida. 

 1883. Kdlicott, Can. Ent., xv, 174, larval habit. 

 1883. Kilcy, Can. Ent., xv, 176, larval habit, 



1888. Brt-hme, Can. Ent., xx, 119, life history. 



1889. Kfllirott, Can. Ent., xxi. 39, larva. 

 1889. Brt'hnu-, Can. Ent., xxi. 7S, larval habits. 



