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SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Arizona: Female, Nogales, July 17, 1903 (Oslar) ; female, Huachuca Moun- 

 tains, August 27, 1903 (Oslar) ; female, Huachuca Mountains, September 

 12, 1903 (Oslar) ; female, Tucson, July 30, 1921; female Tucson, October 

 2-25, 1916 ; female, Sabino Canyon, St. Catalina Mountains, May 20, 1919 ; 

 female, Sabino Basin, St. Catalina Mountains, July 8-20, 1916; female, 

 Phoenix ; female, Santa Cruz Village, Cobabi Mountains, August 10-12, 

 1916; female, Dawson Camp, Salt River, September 3 (C. H. T. Townsend) ; 

 female, Yuma county, September, 1903. 



New Mexico: Male, Albuquerque, July 17, 1902 (Oslar); male, Albuquerque, 

 July 18, 1902 (Oslar) ; male, Albuquerque, August, 1894 (Snow). 



Texas: Male, Gillette, July 25, 1917; male, Lee County; male, Calvert (G. H. 

 Harris) ; female, Harwood (Wickham) ; male, Dallas, October 3, 1905 

 (F. O. Bishopp) ; male, Brownwood, 1891 ; male, Eastland County, June 9, 

 1921 (Grace O. Wiley) ; male, Eastland County, June 10, 1921 (Grace O. 

 Wiley) ; female, New Braunfels, June 16 (Wickham) ; female, Marfa, July 

 3-6 (Wickham) ; female, Del Rio, June 22-27 (Wickham) ; female. Devils 

 River, May 3, 1907 (F. C. Bishopp) ; female, Phantom Lake, Fort Davis 

 Quad, June 9, 1916 (F. M. Gaige) ; female, Phantom Lake, Fort Davis 

 Quad, June 14, 1910 (F. M. Gaige) ; female. 2 males, Phantom Lake, Fort 

 Davis Quad, July 12, 1916 (F. M. Gaige) ; female. Phantom Lake, Fort 

 Davis Quad, July 13, 1916 (F. M. Gaige) ; female. Phantom Lake, Fort 

 Davis Quad, July 15, 1916 (F. M. Gaige) ; male. 



The type of this species has been examined and the males placed 

 here are identical with it. I have also compared the females with 

 the specimen described by Fox as the female. There is some question 

 in my mind as to whether this is really the female of this species. 

 The bidentate mandibles, subhexagonal thorax without a scutellar 

 scale, irregularly rugose pygidium, and black head and thorax will 

 identify the female. The strongly emarginate cephalic margin of the 

 pronotum, absence of a median pit on the second abdominal sternite, 

 lack of an apical fringe on the last abdominal tergite, and the black 

 head and thorax will identify the male. 



34. DASYMUTILLA MYRICE, new species 



Mutilla ochracea Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 243, 1899, male 

 (part). 



Male. — Black, the vertex, dorsum of thorax, and abdomen from 

 apical margin of second tergite clothed with yellow pubescence, other- 

 wise with black pubescence; cephalic margin of pronotum distinctly 

 emarginate medially ; last abdominal tergite with an apical fringe of 

 short, black, erect hairs ; second abdominal sternite without a median 

 pit filled with hairs, or a longitudinal row of hairs simulating a 

 carina. Length, 13 mm. 



Head black, clothed with sparse, long, erect, black pubescence, 

 except that on the vertex yellow ; mandibles acute at the apex, biden- 

 tate on the inner margin ; apical margin of clypeus bidentate medi- 

 ally ; clypeus densely, confluently punctate ; scape bicarinate beneath, 



