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Tiic final result of these studies shows that there are nine species 

 represented in the faunal region above limited, and it is probable that 

 one or two more remain to be discovered. Indeed, anions the eight 

 hundred odd specimens examined in reaching the conclusions here 

 set forth are several examples which are doubtfully referred to two 

 species. While it is quite probable that they represent geographical 

 races of the species with which they have been tentatively associated, 

 additional material may prove them to be distinct. 



Five of these nine species, though, except one, originally described 

 :b distinct, have at one time or other been regarded as mere varieties 

 of a single species (honestarius) , and all but a very few of the hun- 

 dreds of specimens sent me for study arrived under names synony- 

 mous with this. The other four species, here described as new, 

 were, when received, also arranged under this name. 



In the preparation of this paper the writer has to thank the follow- 

 ing gentlemen for the loan of specimens, without which the paper 

 could not have appeared in its present more complete form: Dr. 

 William Barnes, of Decatur, Illinois, for his entire collection in this 

 group; \h-. Harrison (1. Dyar for the material in the United State- 

 National Museum; Messrs. William Beutenmi'iller and Jacob Doll for 

 the material in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 

 and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, respectively; and 

 Messrs. George II. Field and W. S. Wright, of San Diego, California; 

 K. F. Pearsall, of Brooklyn, New York; William II. Broadwell, of 

 Newark, New Jersey, and Otto Buchholz, of Elizabeth, New Jersey. 

 To all these gentlemen the writer expresses his thanks. Further 

 acknowledgment should be made to Prof. John B. Smith for the use 

 of the material in the Hulst collection. I am also indebted to Mr. 

 I- B. Prout, of London. England, for helpful suggestions in regard 

 to tin' older generic and specific names, and for comparison of speci- 

 mens with the Walker types in the British Museum. 



Genus PERO Herrich-Schaeffer. 



L850 58. Pero, Berrn b Si haepper, Samml. A.uss. Schmett., p. 28. 

 is:,:. Azelina (part Guenee, Spec. Gen., vol. 9, p. L56 

 L860. Azelina Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. •_'(), |>. L85. 



Vzelina I'm kard, Monogr. Geom., ]>. 520, pi. <;, fig. 12. 

 L881. Azelina Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Bist., Ber. 5, vol. 8, p. 33. 

 L883. Azelina Meyrk k. Trans, ami Proc. New Zeal, [nst., vol. Hi. p. 106. 

 L896 Warmarea lh lst, Trans. A.mer. Ent. Soc., vol. 23, p. :'.:!>. 

 L896. Vzelina Huls Vmer. Ent. Soc., vol. 23, p. 380. 



L900. Azelina Dri i e, Biol. Centr. A.mer., Lep. Bet., vol. 2, p. (30. 

 L902 ... I!i lst, Hull. 52 I S Nat. Mus.. p. 344. 



L904. Uarmarea Di \u. I'm,'. I'. s. Nat. Mus., vol. 27, p. 913=Azelina. 

 L905. Azelina Warren, Nov. Zool., vol. 12, p. ::t;7=Pero. 



