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6. DASYMUTILLA MONTIVAGOIDES (Viereck) 



Mutilla (Timulla) montivagoides Viereck, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 32, 

 p. 185, 1906, female. 



Type. — Female, Hamilton County, Kansas (F. H. Snow), in collec- 

 tion of University of Kansas. 



Only the unique type seen. This species is very closely related to 

 hannonia Fox. It differs from the latter only by the black pubes- 

 cence of the abdominal sternites and will very likely prove to be only 

 a variety. 



7. DASYMUTILLA NIGRICAUDA (Viereck) 



Mutilla (Timulla) nigricaiidw Viereck, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 32, 

 p. 187, 1906, female. 



Type. — Female, Clark County, Kansas, May (F. H. Snow), in 

 collection of University of Kansas. 

 Distribution. — Kansas and Texas. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Kansas: Female, Clark County, June (F. H. Snow) ; female, Meade County, 



July 10, 1911 (F. X. Williams). 

 Texas : Female, Wharton, June 24, 1917. 



I have examined the type and find it very closely related to har- 

 monia Fox. It is exactly like harmonia in form and sculpture. It 

 probably will prove to be only a variety in which the pale pubescence 

 of the abdomen has been replaced by black. 



8. DASYMUTILLA CASSANDRA, new species 



Male. — Entirely ferruginous, except the head dark mahogany red ; 

 clothed throughout with sparse black pubescence, except a pair of 

 large, obscure, subapical spots on the second abdominal tergite with 

 inconspicuous yellowish pubescence: length, 10 mm. 



Head dark mahogany red, the vertex behind the ocelli ferruginous, 

 clothed with sparse, long, erect, black pubescence ; mandibles triden- 

 tate at the apex; cephalic margin of clypeus very feebly bidentate 

 medially; the clypeus strongly convex, densely, confluently punc- 

 tate; scape not bicarinate beneath, closely punctate, clothed with 

 coarse, erect, black hairs ; first segment of flagellum slightly shorter 

 (measured dorsally) than the second; antennal scrobes not carinate 

 above ; front, vertex and genae coarsely, continguously punctate, the 

 vertex posteriorly and the genae not as coarsely sculptured as the 

 front ; relative widths of head and thorax, 6-8. 



Thorax ferruginous, clothed throughout with erect, and somewhat 

 appressed, sparse, black pubescence; pronotum, mesonotum and 

 scutellum coarsely, continguously even somewhat confluently punc- 



