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SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Florida : Male, Marco, April 20, 1912 ; mal,e. Long Boat Key, Sarasota, August 

 14, 1910 (J. C. Bradley) ; male, Tampa, May 2, 1908 (Van Duzee) ; male, 

 Lake County, April 18, 1922 (T. P. Winter) ; 4 males, Lake County, April 

 20, 1922 (T. P. Winter) ; 2 males. Lake County, April 22, 1922 (T. P. 

 Winter) ; male, LaBelle, April 27, 1912 ; 3 males, LaBelle, May 8-10, 1916 

 (J. C. Bradley). 



The tj^pe of this sj)ecies has been examined and the specimens 

 placed here are identical with it. The genitalia of this species are 

 exactly like those of lepeletierli (Fox) and are therefore not figured. 

 Pyrrhus differs from lepeletieni principally in the ferruginous pubes- 

 cence of the head and thorax above. 



40. DASYMUTILLA CREUSA (Cresson) 



Mutilla creusa Cresson, Proc. Phila. Ent. Soc vol. 4. p. 431, 1865, female. — 



Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, p. 244, 1879, female. — Dalle Toree, 



Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 28, 181)7, female. — Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 



25, p. 238, 1899, female (in part). — Melandei^, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, voL 



29, p. 297, 1903, female (part). 

 Mutilla {Sphaerophthalma) creusa Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3.. 



p. 236, 1871, female. 

 Sphaerophthalma creusa Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. vol. 13, p. 223, 



1886, female. 

 Ephuta (Ephuta) creusa- Andre, Gens. Ins., vol. 1, fasc 11, p. 59, 1903, 



female. 



Type. — Female, Colorado Territory, in collection of American 

 Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 



Distribution. — Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, 

 Colorado, and New Mexico. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Arkansas: Female, Little Rock, October 11, 1917. 



Colorado: 6 females, Lamar, July 10, 1899; female. Bent County (Lantz) ; 

 female. La Junta, July 22-23, 1919 (Rehn and Hebard) ; female, Trinidad, 

 July 13, 1899 ; female, Fremont County, September 5 ; female, Colorado 

 Springs, August (E. S. Tucker) ; female, Colorado Springs (Cockerell) ; 

 female, Platte Canyon, July (Oslar) ; female, Turkey Creek Canyon, June 

 (Oslar) ; female, Turkey Creek Canyon, July (Oslar) ; female, Denver, 

 August 12; female. White Rock, Boulder County, July 30 (Cockerel!); 

 female, White Rock, Boulder County, August 13 (Cockerell) ; female, 

 Boulder Canyon, July 15, 1908 (G. von Krakov?) ; female, Valxnont Buttes, 

 July 25, 1908 (G. von Krakow); female. Fort Collins, July 29, 1900; 

 female, Fort Collins, August 8, 1899 ; female. Fort Collins ; female, Liver- 

 more, September 3, 1899; female (Popenoe) ; female. Clear Creek, August 

 3, 1899 (Osl^r) ; female. Clear Creek, August 3, 1906 (Oslar) ; 5 females, 

 Ridgway, July (Oslar) ; 2 females, Silverton, August (Oslar) ; female, 

 Durango, July 25, 1900 (Oslar); female, Drennan, August 17, 1924; 4 

 females. 



