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North Carolina: Female, Southern Pines, June 24, 1909; female. Southern 

 Pines, June 25, 1911 (A. H. Manee). 



Sap'pho is almost a duplicate of vesta in form and sculpture, al- 

 though there is a tendency for the sculpture to be less coarse than 

 in vesta. Bradley (1916) has already pointed out the very close 

 relationship between the two and after studying material of both 

 forms I believe sappho to be only a variety of vesta. The variety 

 sap f ho differs from vesta in being much more sparsely pubescent, 

 the legs red, apical fringe of first abdominal tergite entirely silvery, 

 and apical fringe of second tergite silvery, narrowly interrupted 

 medially by a spot of black. 



31. DASYMUTILLA VESTA var. ERRANS Rohwer 



Dasymutilla errans Rohwer, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, p. 457, 1912, 

 female.— Banks, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 14, p. 26, 1921, female. 



Dasymutilla bosqucnsis Rohwer, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, p. 457, 

 1912, female. 



Dasymutilla texmsis Rohweb, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, p. 460, 1912. 

 female. 



Type. — Female, Texas, in collection of United States National 

 Museum. The types of hosquensis and texensis are in the collection 

 of the United States National Museum. 



Distributio7i. — Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, 

 and Colorado. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Colorado: Female, Ridg\vay, July (Oslar). 



Kansas: Female, Riley County, July 11 (Popenoe) ; female, Riley County, July 

 19 (G. A. Dean) ; female, Riley County, July 21 (Popenoe) ; female, Riley 

 County, July 24 (G. A. Dean) ; female, Barton County, June 22, 1912 

 (F. X. Williams) ; female, Kiowa County, July 5, 1911 (F. X. Williams) ; 

 female, Phillips County, August 30, 1912 (F. X. Williams) ; female, Clark 

 County, May (F. H. Snow) ; 3 females, Clark County, June (F. H. Snow) ; 



2 females, Clark County, August 23, 1911 (F. X. Williams) ; female, Gra- 

 ham County, August 16, 1912 (F. X. Williams) ; female, Sheridan County 

 (F. X. Williams) ; 2 females, Seward County, August 18, 1911 (F. X. 

 Williams) ; female, Logan County (F. X. Williams) ; female, Rawlins 

 County (F. X. Williams) ; female, Stevens County, August 10, 1911 (F. X. 

 Williams) ; 2 females, Grant County, July 23, 1911 (F. X. AVilliams) ; 



3 females, Morton County (F. H. Snow) ; 3 females, Hamilton County 

 (F. H. Snow) ; 9 females, Stanton County, July 30, 1911 (F. X. Williams) ; 

 3 females, Wallace County (F. H. Snow). 



Nebraska: Female, Halsey, August 9, 1925 (R. W. Dawson) ; female, Halsey, 

 August 13, 1920 (C. B. Philip) ; female, Scottsbluff, August 5, 1923 (Leonard 

 Worley). 



Oklahoma: Female, Payne County, June 28, 1925 (W. J. Brown). 



South Dakota: Female, Martin, September 12, 1925 (H. C. Severin). 



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