322 NORTH AMERICAN MUTILLIDAE 



The male of this species is prett}^ certainl}' hexar. Mr. S. A. 

 Rohwer'^ has described the supposed male, basing his conclusion 

 upon the fact that he had received a male and a female pinned 

 together. I have examined these specimens, and while the 

 female is a true harmonia, the male is a castor. The collector 

 from whom Mr. Rohwer received his specimens, while a close and 

 careful observer, is accustomed at times to pin females with males 

 which he suspects of belonging to each other, even though he has 

 not actually found them in copulation, as I have learned in con- 

 nection with specimens received from him. In this connection 

 it should be noted that the males of castor have tridentate mandi- 

 bles unless they are too much worn to display the three teeth. 



Dasymutilla (Bruesia) bexar (Blake), c?. 



Eciuivalent in distribution and scarcity to the preceding, of 

 which it is doubtless the male. 



Virginia: Falls Church, September 14, 1915, 1 cf , (G. M. Greene), [G. M. 

 Greene]; Falls Church, July 21 and August 30, 4 cf , Glencarlyn, July 26, 1 cf , 

 (N. Banks), [N. Banks]. Georgia: Billy's Island, Okefenokee Swamp, June, 

 1912, 2 d', (Cornell Univ. Exp.), [Cornell Univ.]. Florida: Marco, 1 cT, 

 (W. T. Davis), [W. T. Davis]. 



Dasymutilla (Dasymutilla) occidentalis (Linnaeus). 



This is a very common species of the Carolinian and Austro- 

 riparian zones from Long Island to Florida and southwest ward. 

 The following is probably only a variety. 



Dasymutilla (Dasymutilla) comanche (Blake). 



This is probably a variety of the preceding, occurring with it 

 in the extreme southern part of its range. 



Dasymutilla (Dasymutilla) pyrrhus (Fox), cf. 



A rare species known only from central and more especially 

 subtropical Florida. 



Florida: Tampa, May 2, 1908, 1 cf , (E. P. VanDuzee), [Cornell Univ.]; 

 Long Boat Key near Sarasota, August 14, 1910, 1 c?, (the author), [Cornell 

 Univ.]; La Belle, April 27, 1912, 1 cf , (W. T. Davis); Gulfport, (Reynolds), 

 [N. Banks]; Clearwater, May 1, 1908, 1 cf, (E. P. VanDuzee) and Indian 

 River, 1 cf , [Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.]; Enterprise, May 11, [Amer. Ent. Soc.]. 



DasymutUla (Dasymutilla) gibbosa (Say), cf- 



Massachusetts: Springfield, 1 cf, [Amer. Ent. Soc.]. Connecticut. 

 New York: Ithaca, July 27, 1886, 1 cf , [Cornell Univ.]; Sea Cliff, Long Island, 



' Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1912, 41 : 455. 



