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Tijpe. — Virginia. Collection of the American Entomological 

 Society. 



Mutilla (Timulla) promethea Blake 



?1S.55. MuliUa duhitata Smith, Cat. Hymen, in Brit. Mas., .3: GO, 9 . 



1871. Mutilla proinethea Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 3:229, d" ■ 



cf. Diameter of posterior ocelli .19 mm., their distance from 

 the eyes .72 mm., from each other .04 mm., from the front ocellus 

 .36 mm.; face and clypeus very deeply concave and highly pol- 

 ished, impunctate, the polished area reaching half way to the 

 base of the mandibles, surmounted above by a dense tuft of hair, 

 a very few hairs at apex. Scape rather strongly bicarinate 

 beneath, with little pubescence. 



Mesosternum with strong transverse tubercles, ridged on their 

 summit and with nearly vertical anterior faces; middle coxae 

 with a weak anterior tubercle, without posterior subapical tooth. 



Judging from the carina on the pygidium promethea would 

 seem to be closer to barbata and oniatipe?uus than to other species. 



Habitat. — Males. North Carolina: Southern Pine.*, 24 September, 1907, 

 (A. H. Manee). Georgia: St. Simon's Island; Billy's Island, Okefenokee 

 Swamp, June, 1912, 3 d^, (Cornell University Expedition); Bainbridge and 

 Spring Creek, Decatur County, SOMaj^, 1 June, 16-29 June, 5 cf, (the author). 

 Florida: South Bay, Lake Okeechobee, 2 cf (Wm. T. Davis); Sanford, 27 

 April, 1908, (E. P. VanDuzee), [Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.]. Louisiana: 2 

 specimens, [Amer. Ent. Soc.]. 



Females. Georgia: Spring Creek, Decatur County, 16 to 29 July, 1912, 

 9 9, (Cornell University Expedition); Bainbridge, .30 July, 1912, (C. U. 

 Expedition); Thomasville, 21 May, 1915, 1 9 (C. S. Spooner); 2 specimens, 

 [Amer. Ent. Soc.]. Florida: .lacksonville, 21 April; Enterprise, 18 April; 

 Gulfport, May. Louisiana: 1 specimen, [Amer. Ent. Soc.]. 



So far as known, this species is confined to the Austroriparian 

 Zone. 



Type. — Male from Louisiana in the collection of the American 

 Entomological Society. Allotype, 9 ; from Thomasville, Ga., in 

 the collection of Cornell University, No. 110.1. 



Mutilla (Timulla) floridensis Blake 



1879. il/w/i7;«.//om/e«.s-is Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 7:249, d" . 



cf . Diameter of posterior ocelli .15 mm., their distance from 

 the eyes .06 mm., from each other .43 mm., from the front ocellus 

 .21 mm. 



trans, am. ent. soc, xlii. 



