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Bulia confirmans (Walker) 



1857. Bolina confirmans Walker, Cat. Br. Mus., Lepid., 13: 1157. 



Type locality: San Domingo. Type: $, British Museum. 

 1857. Bolina umhrosa Walker, Cat. Br. Mus., Lepid., 13: 1158. Type 



locality: San Domingo. Type: $, British Museum. 

 1857. Binla (sic) propria Walker, Cat. Br. Mus., Lepid., 13: 1170. 



Type locality: San Domingo. Type: cT, British Museum. 

 1936. Bulia confirmans (Walker), Richards, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amen, 



29:433, figs. 1-2. 

 1939. Bulia confirmans (Walker), Richards, Ent. Amer., n. s., 19: 

 pi. 5, figs. 7-9. 

 A small species with the color of the hind wing white, outer margin 

 fuscous, and anal lunule white. Photographs of types in 1939 paper. 

 Expanse: 24-30 mm. 



Male genitalia: (pi. 32, fig. 1) Sacculus with small basal lobe and 

 very short distal production beyond cucullus. Juxta rounded. Aedoeagus 

 with small distal spine on vesica and no external spiculations. 



Female genitalia: (pi. 33, fig. 1) Sternite VII deeply indented at 

 apex, without median prong, the indentation slightly surpassed by the 

 sclerotinized ductus bursae. Spines in bursa copulatrix weak. 



Distribution: In Central America recorded only from Costa Rica 

 (U.S.N.M.). Also recorded from Colombia (A.M.N.H.), Venezuela, 

 British Guiana, Marguerite Island, San Domingo, Haiti, Jamaica, and 

 Cuba (latter all in U.S.N.M.). 



Bulia mexicana (Behr) 



1870. Syneda mexicana Behr, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 3: 27. Type 

 locality: Casala, near Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Types: both 

 destroyed, topotypical neotype designated in following (in U.S. 

 N.M.). 



1936. Bulia mexicana (Behr), Richards, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., 29: 

 433. 

 Only 4 specimens are now known (exclusive of the lost types). The 



neotype is similar to typical deducta as figured in Ent. Amer., n. s., vol. 



19, pi. 5, fig. 10, but somewhat lighter. The male from Costa Rica is 



much darker and similar to fig. 13, /. c. The female from Costa Rica is 



