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Ephuta {Ephuta) fenestrata ANoBfi, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11. p. 59, 1903, 



male. 

 Ephuta {Ephuta) ferrugata Andee, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 60, 1903, 



female. 

 Mutilla vierecM Rohwer, Proc. Ent. See. Wash., vol. 12, p. 49, 1910, 



female. 

 Ephuta antiguensis Zavattari, Ann. Mus. Zool. R. Uni. Napoli, new ser., 



vol. 3, no. 9, p. 14, 1910, female (part). 

 Dasymutilla ferrugata var. halahetei Rohwer, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., vol. 41, 



p. 456, 1912, female. 

 Dasymutilla georgiana Rohwer, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, p. 456, 1912, 



female.— Banks, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 14, p. 25, 1921, female. 

 Dasymutilla plesia Rohwer, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, p. 456, 1912, 



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

 Dasymutilla (Dasymutilla) ferrugata Bradley, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 



42, p. 327, 1916, female. 

 Dasymutilla (Dasymutilla) lepeletierii Bradley, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 



vol. 42, p. 328, 1916, male (part). 

 Dasymutilla ferrugata Rohwer, Hymen of Conn., Bull. 22, Conn. Geol. 



Nat. Hist. Survey, p. 624, 1926, female.— Banks, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., 



vol. 14, p. 25, 1921, female.— Rau, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 24, 



no. 7, p. 6, 71922, female. 

 Dasymutilla fenestrata Rohwer, Hymen, of Conn., Bull. 22, Conn. Geol. 



Nat. Hist. Survey, p. 624, 1916, male. 

 Dasymutilla vierecki Rohwer, Hymen, of Conn., Bull. 22, Conn. Geol. 



Nat. Hist. Survey, p. 625, 1916, female.— Banks, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., 



vol. 14, p. 26, 1921, female. 



Type. — Male, Pennsylvania. 



Through the kindness of Dr. L. O. Howard and Mr. S. A. Rohwer 

 I have had the opportunity of sending six species of male Mutillids to 

 the Paris Museum for comparison with the type of fenestrata, which 

 it was supposed would be located there. Monsieur P. Lesne replied, 

 however, that the type of this species belonged to the Serville col- 

 lection, and that on the death of this entomologist the collection was 

 sold and dispersed. The fate of the Mutillidae in that collection 

 could not be learned. 



The type of fenestrata is then, apparently lost and it seems advis- 

 able to erect a neotype. While the original fenestrata can not be 

 definitely identified with the description given by Lepeletier the 

 species under consideration answers the requirements nearer than 

 any other and the neotype is therefore selected from it. It may 

 be added that all the series of determined fenestrata that have come 

 under my observation have been composites of from two to five 

 species. The name fenestrata is a homonym as pointed out by Fox 

 (1899) and must be replaced by Fox's lepeletierii. 



Neotype.— M^lIq, Washington, D. C, June, 1899, in collection of 

 United States National Museum. 



