250 WILLIAM J. FOX. 



FE3IALES. 



Entirely ferruginous; first and second segments banded with white pnbescene, 



that of apical segments fuscous ba.lteola Blake. 



Head and thorax ferruginous ; abdomen and legs black ; first segment not banded. 



virguuciila Blake. 



90. iVIiitilla scaeva Blake. 



Mutilla (fiphxrophthnhm) scueva Blake, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, iii, 232, % , 1871. 

 Sphxrophthalma scasva Blake, ibid, xiii, 207, % , 1886. 



Pennsylvania : Philadelphia ; Virginia ; Texas. 



91. Ilufilla peiinsylvaiiica Lep. 



3{iiti.lla pennxylvanica Lepeletier de St. Fargeau, Hym., iii, 628, % , 1845. 

 Sphxropolhalma pennnijlvantca Blake, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, xiii, 208, % , 1886. 



North Carolina ; Florida; Texas. Recorded from Pennsylvania 

 by Lep. de St. Fargeau. 



92. IMutilla auripilis Blake. 



Midilla (Sphierophthalma) auripiUs Blake, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, iii. 233. % . 

 Sphxrophthalma auripilis Radoszkowski, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., xix, 32, T. 6, f. 

 47, 188.5 ; Blake, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, xiii, 208, % , 1886. 



Texas ; Oklahoma Territory. 



93. Mutilla jasoii u. sp. 



/^ .— Castaneous, clothed throughout with pale pubescence, that on last two 

 segments somewhat darker; legs and flagellum blackish ; auteunse about as long 

 as the bead and that portion of thorax anterior to middle segment; wings sub- 

 hyaline, darker apically ; two submarginal cells, the third barely discernible; 

 marginal cell acuminate. Length 11 mm. 



Texas. One specimen belonging to the U. S. National Museum. 

 Easily separated from its allies by pale wings and pubescence. 



94. Mutilla balteola Blake. 



3Iatilla H^phxrophthalma) balteola Blake, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, iii, 248, 9 , 1871. 

 Sphierophthalma balteola Blake, ibid, xiii, 242, 9 , 1886. 



Texas ; Oklahoma Territory. 



9.5. Mutilla vii'guucula Blake. 



Sphierophthalma virgimctda Blake, Tr. Am. Ent Soc, xiii, 253, 9 , 1886. 



New Mexico. Only the unique type seen. 



Group imperialis {=^ Photopsis Blake pt.). 

 In the males the ocelli are large, prominent, more or less reni- 

 form, the eyes large, irregularly rounded, tending to subovate, and 

 usually subemarginate anteriorly and posteriorly, finely facetted ; in 

 the female subovate, also facetted. Mandibles of male as in group 

 pennsylvanica, in the female straight, with a small tooth internally 



