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Group SCABRA 



Females with antennal scrobes strongly carinate above, thorax 

 distinctly broader than long, scutellar scale absent, first abdominal 

 segment subsessile, pygidium longitudinally rugose, second abdomi- 

 nal sternite strongly scabrose at the sides and subapically. Males 

 with the second abdominal sternite decidedly concave medially, 

 slightly scabrous at the sides and subapically, and trochanters pro- 

 duced at the apex into a prominent tooth. 



15. DASYMUTILLA SCABRA (Fox) 



Sphaerophthalma scaler Fox, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, vol. 4, p. 94, 



1894, female. 

 Mutilla scahra Dalle Torke, Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 84, 1897, female.— Fox, 



Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 247, 1899, female. 

 Ephuta {Ephuta) scabra Andre, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 63, 1903, 



female. 



T'ype.— Female, San Jose del Cabo, Lower California, October 

 (G. Eisen), in collection of California Academy of Sciences? 

 Distribution. — Lower California. 



SPECIilENS EXAMINED 



Lower California: Female, Truinpo, July 10, 1919 (Ferris). 



16. DASYMUTILLA EMINENTIA, new species 



Plate 1, fig. 3 



Male. — Black, clothed with very pale yellowish pubescence ; length 

 12 mm. Head black; front and vertex with erect and recumbent 

 pale yellowish pubescence; mandibles tridentate, ferruginous with 

 the tips black ; clypeus bidentate medially at the apex, finely rugose^ 

 sparsely clothed with dark hairs ; scape sparsely clothed with mixed 

 pale and dark hairs; first segment of flagellum shorter than the 

 second; antennal scrobes distinctly carinate above; front, vertex, 

 and genae with moderate, close, shallow punctures ; relative widths 

 of head and thorax, 7-9. 



Thorax black, the pronotum, mesonotum, scutellum, metanotum, 

 and tegulae clothed with erect and recumbent pale yellowish pubes- 

 cence ; pronotum, mesonotum, and scutellum with large, shallow con- 

 fluent punctures; propleura with moderate, scattered punctures; 

 sparsely clothed with pale hairs ; mesopleura with moderate, shallow 

 punctures, clothed with sparse, dark hairs ; metapleura glabrous, with 

 a few scattered punctures; propodeum coarsely reticulate through- 

 out; tegulae glabrous, punctate at the base and inner lateral margin 



