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Thorax black, clothed with long, erect and recumbent black hairs ; 

 pronotum, mesonotum, scutellum, and metanotum coarsely, deeply and 

 confluently punctate; pronotum without an emargination medially; 

 propleura coarsely punctate throughout; mesopleura coarsely punc- 

 tate throughout, the punctures scattered on the anterior half, close 

 and confluent on the posterior half; metapleura smooth and shining 

 with a few scattered punctures ventrally; sides of propodeum shal- 

 lowly and broadly reticulate; dorsum and posterior face of propo- 

 deum shallowly and broadly reticulate; tegulae smooth and shining 

 except for punctures along the basal margins. 



Abdomen black; first segment subsessile, the ventral carina not 

 produced anteriorly into a prominent tooth, the tergite closely, con- 

 fluently punctate along the posterior margin, glabrous and with 

 large, scattered punctures elsewhere ; second tergite with large, more 

 or less confluent punctures throughout, the basal half of the tergite 

 clothed with long, black hairs, the posterior half clothed with long,, 

 fulvous hairs; tergites 3-6 with close, large punctures, clothed with 

 long, fulvous hairs; last tergite as broad as long, smooth and shining^ 

 with a fringe of long, fulvous hairs at the base ; second sternite with 

 scattered, large, elongate punctures, a deep pit, closely packed with 

 fine hairs, occupying the median area ; sterites 3-6 punctate near their 

 apical margin, each with a fringe consisting of long, black hairs at 

 the middle and long, fulvous hairs at the sides; last sternite punctate; 

 dentiform at the posterior lateral angles. 



Legs very dark red, clothed with black hairs. Calcaria black. 



Wings dark fuliginous; veins r-m and K,5 widely separated on 

 vein r. 



Holotype.—Male, Cat. No. 40721, U.S.N.M. Cotulla, Texas, No- 

 vember 26, 1905 (F. C. Pratt). 



This species is related to fuVoohirta and vandala but differs from 

 both in having a deep, median pit on the second sternite. The shape 

 of the head and thorax, the form of the first abdominal segment and 

 of the last sternite indicate the affinities quite clearly. The genitalia 

 of the type specimen are lost and their exact structure is not known, 

 but it is probable that they are identical with those of fulvohirta. 



13. DASYMUTILLA FULGIDA. new species 



Female. — Dark mahogany red beneath, reddish testaceous above^ 

 clothed above with rather dense, long, erect and suberect bright 

 crimson pubescence; antennal scrobes strongly carinate above; pos- 

 terior margin defined by a prominent irregular carina; thorax sub- 

 hexagonal, slightly longer than broad; scutellar scale absent; first 

 abdominal segment subsessile; pygidium rugose. Length, 12 mm. 



