BELU'RA. 231 



just below middle of discocellnlars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastoaiosiiig with 

 the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing rod-hrown in mulp, yellow suffused with rufous 



in female, the postniedial lino excurved from costa to 



vein 4 ; anal tnft of female white cjortyn aides. 



B. Fore wing of female ooin-eous slightly irrorated with red- 



brown, the postmedial line strongly beut outwards below 



cosla ; 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. xsxii. 465 (1865) ; Smith, Cat. Koct. jV. Am. 



p. 181. 

 Arzama densa, Wlk. xxxii. 645 (1865). 

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



S . Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with pale brown : 

 antennte and abdomen pale red-brown. Forewini? pale red-brown 

 irrorated with dark br(»wn, most thickly on medial and terminal 

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

 line brown, minutelj' waved and oblique from costa to subcostal 

 iierviire, then inwardly obliijue, 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 



F"ig. 107. — Bellura gortynoides, c?. \. 



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

 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 lornus ; 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 diff'used curved posfmc dial line. 



5". Yellow suffused witli rufous; abdomen with the anal tuft 

 •white ; fore wing witli slight brown suffusion near lower angle of 

 cell. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., south to Elorida and west to the 

 Mississippi, 2 $ type, Georgia, 1 S type (/ens«, Florida, Mellouville, 

 1 $ . Exp. S 36, $ 40-4S millim. 



