318 NORTH AMERICAN MUTILLIDAB 



promethea (Blake) . . . : protnethea {B\sikc)[=dnhitata 



pars] 



floridensis (Blake) leuterpe (Blake) 



ornatipennis Bradley ornatipennis Bradley 



Ephuta Say 



scrupea Say puteola (Blake) pars ? 



pauxilla Bradley puteola (Blake) pars ? 



battlei Bradley ? 



slossonae (Fox) ? 



A Review of the Distribution and Synonymy of the Species 

 of mutillidae known to occur in the eastern united 

 States. 



In the following review the synonymy is noted only where it 

 differs from that given by Mr. Fox in his synopsis of the family.^ 



Pseudoxnethoca 



Pseudomethoca (Pseudomethoca) canadensis Blake, cf, 9. 



This is a common species of the Transition. Zone. It ranges 

 from the Canadian southward into the Carolinian and, at least 

 sparingly, into the Austroriparian Zone. The species is known 

 from Canada, is common in New England, New York, and the 

 Coastal Plain south to Virginia. Farther south it seems to be 

 very scarce. I have seen one specimen each from Georgia and 

 Texas, and two each from North Carolina and Florida. West- 

 ward I have seen specimens from Nebraska and Missouri.. The 

 southern records are as follows: 



North Carolina: Lake Toxaway, 1 specimen, (Mrs. A. T. Slosson), [Mrs. 

 A. T. Slosson]; Black Mountains, July, 1 9, (Wm. BeutenmuUer), [Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist.]. Georgia: Spring Creek, Decatur County, 1 9 , (the author), 

 [Cornell Univ.]. Florida: Biscayne Bay, 2 specimens, (Mrs. A. T. Slosson), 

 [Mrs. A. T. Slosson]. Texas: 1 9, [Amer. Ent. Soc.]. 



Mr. Melander indicates that the species is common in Central 

 Texas, but it certainly is not in Georgia, where I have collected 

 Mutillidae over a considerable area. 

 Pseudomethoca (Nomiaephagus) geryon (Fox), cf. 

 1899. Mutilla geryon Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 25: 225, d^. 

 1903. Mutilla henshawi Melander, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 29: 303, d'. 

 1910. Mutilla daeckei Rohwer, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., 12: 49, c?. 



« Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1899,25: 219 to 292. 



