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Legs dark mahogany red, sparsely clothed with long, black pubes- 

 cence; calcaria black. 



HoJofijpe.— Female, Cat. No. 40720, U.S.N.M., Dripping Springs, 

 Organ Mountains, New Mexico. 



Paratype.— Female, Parker's Well, base of Organ Mountains, New 

 Mexico, in collection of University of Minnesota; female, without 

 data, author's collection. 



This species is very closely related to fulvohirta Cresson. It dif- 

 fers from that species in the second abdominal tergite being some- 

 what more coarsely punctate than in fulvohirta and in having the 

 pubescence of the apical abdominal tergites beyond the second, clothed 

 with black pubescence. The paratypes are 8.5 mm. and 10 mm. in 

 length, and the fulvous pubescence of the second tergite extends 

 posteriorly onto the median area of the third and fourth tergites in 

 both. 



11. DASYMUTILLA VANDALA, new species 



Male. — Black, the apical half of the second abdominal tergite, 

 tergites 3-6 entirely and base of ultimate tergite clothed with orange- 

 yellow pubescence; apical fringes of sternites 2-5 yellow; second 

 sternite without a median pit or a row of hairs sim'ulating a carina ; 

 first segment of abdomen subsessile. Length, 10 mm. 



Head black, clothed throughout with long, sparce, erect, black 

 pubescence ; mandibles acute at the apex, the inner margin bidentate 

 near the apex; clypeus bidentate medially on the cephalic margin; 

 disk of clypeus densely punctate; scape bicarinate beneath, coarsely 

 punctate above; first segment of flagellum slightly shorter than the 

 second; antennal scrobes carinate above; front densely, more or 

 less confluently punctate; vertex and genae with sparse, moderate 

 punctures ; relative widths of head and thorax, 7-9. 



Thorax black, clothed throughout with long, sparce, erect, black 

 pubescence; pronotum not emarginate medially; pronotum, mes- 

 onotum and scutellum with large, contiguous, somewhat confluent 

 punctures; the propleura dorsally and anteriorly punctured like the 

 pronotum, posteriorly with fine punctures and scattered moderate 

 punctures; mesopleura with large, contiguous punctures, except the 

 anterior and posterior margins with the punctures sparse and scat- 

 tered; metapleura glabrous, impunctate except for large, scattered 

 punctures on the ventral half; sides of propodeum with foveate, 

 contig'uous punctures except the anterior margin with punctures 

 sparse; posterior face and dorsum of propodeum coarsely foveately 

 reticulate; tegulae glabrous, impunctate except for setigerous punc- 

 tures on the basal and inner lateral margins. 



Abdomen black ; apical half of tergite two, tergites 3-6 entirely and 

 base of ultimate tergite clothed with long, erect, orange-yellow pubes- 



