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eyes prominently gibbous, intersecting near their bases the outhnc of the head 

 as seen from above or in front; vertex sparsely, forehead more closely but not 

 coarsely, punctate; no carinae between the eyes and the antennae. Third 

 antennal segment shorter than the fourth and fifth united. 



Thorax slender, narrowed posteriorly, slightly contracted at the spiracles, 

 the humeral angles not sharp; caudal face of the propodeum vertical, rounded 

 above and laterally into the thorax. 



Petiole with a thin carina beneath; second segment long and tapered at base; 

 pygidium striate. 



Type material. — Holotype: St. Petersburg, Florida, August 12, 

 1910, (the author), [Cornell Univ. No. 115.1]; paratype: Cedar 

 Keys, Florida, June 4, [American Entomological Society]. 



Dasymutilla (Dasymutilla) rubicunda n. sp. 



9 . Claret brown, the legs and antennae black; a transverse band of black 

 pubescence at the tip of the dorsum; petiole, second, third, fourth, and fifth 

 segments with an apical band of silvery pubescence, interrupted medially on 

 the second dorsal; this segment with a medial covering of appressed black 

 hairs, replaced by white at the sides; elsewhere the pubescence is sparse and 

 inconspicuous. 



Seen from above the sides of the head are straight, parallel, broadh^ inter- 

 rupted by the very prominent bead-like eyes, behind which they do not con- 

 verge, but meet the somewhat concaved posterior border at an acute angle; 

 these angles sub-alate, removed from the eyes by one-half (.11 mm.) the longer 

 diameter of the latter (.21 mm.); head on the front and vertex stronglj- closely 

 punctate, beneath the eyes sparsely but coarsely punctate; front without 

 carinae between the antennae and the eyes. Scape coarsely punctate; first seg- 

 ment of the flagellum long, slightly exceeding the following two taken together. 



Width of the head including the eyes, 2.45 mm., at the hind angles, 2.04 mm., 

 of the thorax, 2.59 mm. (this just behind the tegulae). Length of the dorsum, 

 3.6 mm., to the scutellar scale 2.88 nun.; the sides convex, slightly narrowed 

 behindj the humeral angles fairly sharp; caudal smiace vertical but broadly 

 rounded into the dorsal. 



Petiole as seen from above widened posteriorly, from the side strongly ele- 

 vated posteriorly, not much constricted before the second, greatly smaller 

 than the base of the same, its ventral carina weak with a rounded anterior 

 lobe; second dorsal closely punctate; pygidium evenly and strongly longitudi- 

 nally striate, its margins reflexed. 



Type. — Gulf port, Florida, June, (Reynolds). Collection of 

 Nathan Banks. 



Dasymutilla (Dasymutilla) rugulosa (Fox), ? . 



? 1903. MidUla infensa Melander and Brues, Biol. Bull., p. 24, 9 • 



So far as collections or my experience show this is a rare species 

 of restricted distribution within the northern limits of the Caro- 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XUI. 



