INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MUTILLID WASPS 



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Dasymutilla sparsa Mickel, 19th Kept. State Ent. Minn., p. 104, 1923, 



female. 

 Dasymutilla hirticula Mickel, 19th Rept. State Ent. Minn., p. 107, 1923, 



male. 



Type. — Female, Colorado, in collection of American Entomo- 

 logical Society of Philadelphia. The type of macro; is also in the 

 collection of the American Entomological Society of Philadelphia; 

 the types of hlawa, hruneri, and segregata var. -jinni are in the United 

 States National Museum. The type of hirticula is in the collection 

 of the University of Minnesota- 



Distrilution — Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, 

 District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, 

 Michigan, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Illinois, Arkansas, Mississippi, 



Fig. 4. — Distkibdtion of females of D.\symutilla. sparsa (Fox) 



Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, 

 Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Alberta, Canada- The 

 male sex occurs throughout this region; typical females, however, 

 are restricted to the last seventeen states, and are replaced by the 

 variety segregata in the first nine States. (Figs. 4 and 5). 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Alabama: 2 females, Thomasville, June 11, 1917 (H. H. Knight). 



Alberta, Canada: Female, Medicine Hat, August 23, 1919 (Sladen). 



Arizona: Female, Phoenix, April 20, 1902 (Oslar) ; female, Fort Apache, 

 August 26, 1897. 



Arkansas: Female, Marion county, June 29. 



Colorado : Female, Fort Collins, July 28. 1899 ; female, Fort Collins, August 8,. 

 1899; female, White Rocks, Boulder County, July 3 (Cockerell) ; 2 females 

 White Rocks, Boulder County, August 13 (Cockerell) ; female, Denver, 

 June, 1897 (Wickham) ; female, Ridgway, July (Oslar) ; 2 females, 

 Kenosha Pass, August (Oslar) ; female, Berkley (Oslar) ; male, South 

 Park (Oslar) ; 3 females. 



