206 NORTH AMERICAN MUTILLIDAE 



side with a weak round tubercle; the inner surface of the mesocoxae with a 

 week anterior carina and a small subapical tubercle; propodeum reticulate, 

 with a median basal irregular channel. 



Petiole with a carina beneath, not incised nor toothed, truncate posteriorly; 

 second ventral segment posteriorly with a transverse raised ridge; sixth ventral 

 segment with a small papilla on each side; seventh and eighth each with an 

 oblique carina, raised and subtruncate posteriorly; second dorsal segment 

 impunctate medially; pygidium coarsely punctured, truncate, with a median 

 impunctate ridge which terminates some distance before the apex of the seg- 

 ment. 



The carina on the scape is less elevated in one of the paratypes. 



9 . Mahogany red, abdomen from third segment to apex, antennae, 

 tibiae and tarsi black; each segment of the abdomen with an apical band of 

 white pubescence, that on the third interrupted medially, on the second with a 

 triangular median elongation; other pubescence small and sparse, the sides and 

 ventral parts with a silvery sheen. 



Tijpe material. — Holotype, cT, and allotype, 9 : Southern 

 Pines, North Carolina, August 12, 1907, (A. H. IVIanee), [Cornell 

 University, Nos. 111.1, 111.2]. Paratopotype d" ; Sept. 1, 1911, 

 (A. H. Manee), [Nathan Banks]; paratype, 1 d^, Spring Creek, 

 Decatur County, Georgia, June 1 to 23, 1911, (the author) ; para- 

 tj^pes, 2 cT, Falls Church, Virginia, 16 Sept., at honey dew on 

 tulip tree (N. Banks), [N. Banks and Cornell University]. 



Additional female: Billy's Island, Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, 

 June 1912, (Cornell University Expedition). 



This species evidently replaces harhata in the east, and is very 

 closely related to that species. The much sparser brush of hairs 

 and carina on the scape and absence of a clypeal tubercle will 

 distinguish it. It approaches no other species very closely in 

 the male sex. 



The allotype of this species was pinned below the holotype, 

 which still held her with jaws clasped around her neck. 



Mutilla (Timulla) barbigera n. sp. 



6^. Black and red; head black, its upper half mahogany red; antennae 

 black, the tip of scape and the pedicel red; thorax black, the pronotum and 

 mesonotum mahogany red; legs black; petiole black; rest of abdomen Sanford's 

 brown ; rather thickly clothed with short, erect, black pubescence, which is dense 

 along the apex of the second and third dorsal segments, not mixed with short 

 appressed pubescence; wings dark brown. Length 19 mm. 



Head closely, shallowly punctured; transverse diameter of the posterior 

 ocelli .21 mm., their distance from the eyes .75 mm., from each other .58 mm., 

 from the front ocellus .36 mm.; inferior margin of the mandibles with a rather 

 small tooth, not deeply emarginate; scape linetl l)encath with silvery white 



