INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MUTELLID WASPS 117 



1 have examined the types of vesta, sella, coloradeJIa, coloradella 

 virginica, coloradella kamloopsensis, ferrugateila, Carolina, and mesil- 

 lae and find them to be either identical with, or slight variations of 

 vesta. Typical male specimens have the base and apical margin of 

 the second abdominal tergite black, but certain specimens from New 

 Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Kansas, and 

 Texas have the ferruginous color much extended anteriorly. Some 

 specimens have the first and second segments entirely black, others 

 may have the ferruginous color extending onto the thorax, so that it 

 may be partially, or rarely even entirely suffused with ferruginous^ 

 and not entirely black as is usually the case. Small specimens have 

 the puncturation less coarse than the larger ones, although most speci- 

 mens from North Carolina and Florida have the second abdominal 

 tergite less coarsely punctured than specimens from other regions. 

 I have examined the type of agenor and the material included here 

 is identical with it, I have examined the male of PycnoTmutilla har- 

 moma Rohwer, the types of PyGnomutilla harmomiformis Rohwer 

 and Scolia unicincta Provancher, and find them to be the same as the 

 male of this species. The females vary in length from 6 to 12 mm. 

 and the males from 8 to 16 mm. 



30. DASYMUTILLA VESTA var. SAPPHO (Fox) 



MuUlla sappho Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 239, 1899, female. 

 Ephuta {Ephuta) sappho ANDRi;, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 63, 1903,. 



female. 

 Dasmutilla (Dasymtctilla) sappJio Bradlett, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 42^ 



p. 830, 191G, female. 

 Dasymutilla sappho Banks, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 14, pp. 25, 26, 1921» 



female. 



Type. — Female. Georgia, in collection of American Entomological 

 Society of Philadelphia. 

 Distribution. — North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Florida: Female, Fort Myers, March 31, 1912; female, Fort Myers, April 2, 

 1912; female, LaBelle, May 8-10, 1916 (J. C. Bradley) ; female. Lakeland, 

 August 16, 1910 (J. C. Bradley) ; 2 females, Indian River; female, Coro- 

 nado Beach, May 5, 1916 (J. C. Bradley) ; female, Sanford, April 30, 1908 

 (Van Duzee) ; female, Gainesville, September 26-October 2, 1914; female, 

 De Funiak Springs, October 17-19, 1914: female. Crestview, October 15-16, 

 1914 ; 3 females, Pensacola, October 11-14, 1914. 



Georgia: 14 females. Spring Creek, Decatur county, May 18-21, 1916 (J. C. 

 Bradley) ; 2 females, Spring Creek, Decatur county, June 7-23, 1911 (J. C. 

 Bradley) ; 4 females, Spring Creek, Decatur county, July 16-29, 1912; 

 female, Spring Creek, Decatur county, September 23-October 3, 1910 (J. C. 

 Bradley) ; female, Cumberland Island, April 29, 1911; 2 females, St. 

 Simon Island, April 22-May 12, 1911 (J. C. Bradley) ; female, St. Simon 

 Island, June 3. 1911 ; female, Tybee Island, July 26, 1913 ; female, Unadilla, 

 June 25, 1910 (J. C. Bradley). 



