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just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing red-brown in male, yellow suffused with rufous 



in female, the postmedial line excurved from eosta to 



vein 4 ; anal tuft of female white gortynoides. 



B. Fore wing of female ochreous slightly irrorated with red- 



brown, the postmedial line strongly bent outwards below 



costa, anal tuft black ." melanopyga. 



0. Fore wing ochreous strongly irrorated and in parts suffused 

 with dark red-brown, the postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa ; anal tuft of female dark brown mixed with 

 grey diffusa . 



4648. Bellura gortynoides. 



Bellura gortynoides, Wlk. xxxii. 465 (1865) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 181. 

 Arzama densa, Wlk. xxxii. 645 (18(55). 

 Arzama vuliiifica, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 294 (1872). 



d . Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with pale brown ; 

 antenna- and abdomen pale red-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown 

 irrorated with dark brown, most thickly on medial and terminal 

 areas, the basal and terminal areas tinged with grey ; antemedial 

 line brown, minutely waved and oblique from costa to subcostal 

 uervure, then inwardly oblique, excurved below vein 1 ; orbicular 

 and reniform red with some brown scales in centre and slightly 

 defined by brown, oblique elliptical with the lower extremities 

 somewhat pointed, the former very small, the latter narrow ; a 



Fig. 107. — Bellura gortynoides, <$ . \. 



diffused oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line brown, dentate, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 brown, minutely waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle 

 and bent outwards to tornus ; a fine terminal brown line. Hind 

 wing pale red-brown with slight dark irroration ; the underside 

 with the costal area suffused with dark brown, a blackish discoidal 

 spot and diffused curved postmedial line. 



2 . Yellow suffused with rufous ; abdomen with the anal tuft 

 white ; fore wing with slight brown suffusion near lower angle of 

 cell. 



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., south to Florida and west to the 

 Mississippi, 2 $ tvpe, Georgia, 1 S type densa, Florida, Mellouville, 

 1 2 • Exp. 6 36, 2 40-48 millim. 



