named a genus of moth as Dyaria (to pun with diarrhoea). The genus was in fact erected by Dyar's friend, the amateur entomologist Berthold Neumoegen and was not in any way derogatory. In 1924, Dyar was commissioned a captain in the Sanitary Department of the U.S. Army Reserve Officers Corps because of his background in the study of mosquitoes. Personal life Dyar married Zella M. Peabody of Los Angeles, a music teacher in 1889. They had two children. He went on a "collecting honeymoon" for fifteen months with his wife around the country, making long trips by train and collecting insects from various localities. Dyar was discovered later to be a bigamist, "for fourteen years he was married to two women, maintaining two families with five children in all." His marriage to Peabody ended in 1920. But in 1906, using the alias of Wilfred P. Allen, Dyar had married Wellesca Pollock. In 1921, now divorced from Peabody, Dyar legally married Pollock; they had three sons. Pollock was an educator and ardent disciple of the Baháʼí Faith. After his legal marriage to Pollock, Dyar became active in the Baháʼí Faith, and edited an independent Baháʼí journal, Reality, from 1922 until his death. During the 1920s, Dyar's hobby of tunnel building was discovered when a truck broke through into a labyrinth of tunnels near his former home in Washington, D.C. Dyar was a second cousin of American Civil War soldier and publisher Harrison Gray Otis. References Further reading External links "Tunnel Digging as a Hobby" Modern Mechanix (1932) featuring a diagram of one of Dyar's tunnels The Bizarre Tale of the Tunnels, Trysts and Taxa of a Smithsonian Entomologist 1866 births 1929 deaths American lepidopterists Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Scientists from New York City American Bahá'ís Smithsonian Institution people 19th-century American zoologists 20th-century American zoologists