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August 9, 1911, 1 cf, (A. H. Manee), [Cornell Univ.]. Georgia: Toccoa, 

 August 15, 1 &, (the author), [Cornell Univ.]; Atlanta, July 6, 1909, 1 <^, 

 (the author), [Cornell Univ.]; Spring Creek, Decatur County, July 16 to 29, 

 1912, 1 cf, (Cornell Univ. Exped.), [Cornell Univ.]. Illinois: Algonquin, 

 4 d", [Amer. Ent. Soc.]. 



Dasymutilla (Dasymutilla) sappho (Fox), 9. 



This species is a close ally, if not indeed a race, of vesia, replac- 

 ing it in southern Georgia and Florida. The male is unknown, 

 but may be involved in castor. 



Georgia: Unadilla, June 25, 1910, 1 9, (the author), [Cornell Univ.]; St. 

 Simon's Island, April 22 to May 12, June 3, 3 9 , (the author), [Cornell Univ.]; 

 Cumberland Island, April 29, 2 9, (the author), [Cornell Univ.]; Bainbridge, 

 June, 1911, and Spring Creek, Decatur County, 7 9 , (the author), [Cornell 

 Univ.]. Florida: Marco, April 18, 1912, 2 9, (W. T. Davis); Ft. Myers, 

 March 31, 1912, 2 9, (W. T. Davis); Lakeland, August 16, 1910, 1 9, (the 

 author), [Cornell Univ.]; Lakeland, 1 9, and Marco, 1 9, (W. T. Davis), 

 [W. T. Davis]; Punta Gorda, November 14, 1911; Sanford, April 30, 1908, 1 9 , 

 (E. P. VanDuzee), [Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.]; Indian River, 2 9, [Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist.]; Capron and Lake Worth, [Amer. Ent. Soc.]; Biscayne Bay, Lake 

 Worth, 5 9, (Mrs. A. T. Slosson), [Mrs. A. T. Slosson]. Louisiana: New 

 Orleans, August 6, 1915, 1 9, (Rehn and Hebard), [G. M. Greene]. 



Dasymutilla (Dasymutilla) obscura (Blake), cf, 9. 



1871. Mutilla {Sj^hacrophlhabna) scaevola Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 



3:247, 9. 



I associate scaevola with obscura on the authority of Mr. Me- 

 lander, who states that the Rev. Mr. Birkmann has been able to 

 definitely associate them as sexes of one form. Eastern speci- 

 mens of the female differ from the western ones in the absence of 

 the sparse upright white and reddish pubescence, and by having 

 darker colored legs. The female recorded by Mr. Melander from 

 Massachusetts, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, proves 

 to be a specimen of cypris. 



So far as the eastern states are concerned the species is confined, 

 so far as known, to the Carolinan Zone, from Long -Island to the 

 mountains of northern Georgia, and is scarce. 



Males. Virginia: Falls Church and Great Falls, July 6 to August 2, 16 c?', 

 (N. Banks), [N. Banks]. North Carolina: 1 cf , [Amer. Ent. Soc.]. Ken- 

 tucky: 1 cf, [Amer. Ent. Soc.]. Georgia: Tallulah Falls, Rabun Countj^, 

 June 19 to 25, 1909, 2 cf , (the author), [Cornell Univ.]. 



Females. New York: Grecnport, Long Island, August 3, 1915, 1 9 , (G. P. 

 Engelhardt), [G. P. Engclhardt]; \\'ading River, Long Island, 1 9, [Brooklyn 

 Museum]. Virginia: Falls Church, Great Falls and Glencarlyn, July 8 to 

 September 11, 11 9, (N. Banks & G. M. Greene), [collections of the .same). 



