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42. DASYMUTILLA MEDEA (Cresson) 



MuUlla niedea Cbesson, Proe. Ent. Soc. Phila., vol. 4, p. 432, 1865, female. — 

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

 Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 59, 1897, female. — Melander, Trans. Amer. Ent 

 Soc, vol. 29, p. 297, 1903, female. 



Mutilla (Sphaerophthalma) niedea Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, 

 p. 236, 1871, female. 



Sphaerophthalma medea Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 224, 

 1886, female. 



MuUlla creusa Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 238, 1899, female 

 (part). 



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

 Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 

 Distribution. — Colorado and New Mexico. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



New Mexico: Female, Las Cruees, September (Cockerell) ; 3 females. Las 

 Cruces; female, Mesilla Park, June 14 (Cockerell) ; female, Mesilla Park, 

 August 3 (Cockerell) ; female, Mesilla Park, August 9 (Cockerell) ; 

 female, Mesilla Park, August 24 (Cockerell) ; 2 females, Mesilla, June 

 (Cockerell); female, Mesilla; female, Las Vegas, July 23 (Cockerell); 

 female, St. Augustine (Cockerell) ; female. 



This species is almost exactly like creusa but has the antennal 

 scrobes carinate above. 



43. DASYMUTILLA URSULA (Cresson) 



MuUlla Ursula Cbesson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 5, p. 120, 1875. male.^ 

 Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, p. 244, 1879, male. — Dalle Toebe, 

 Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 95, 1897, male. — Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 

 25, p. 242, 1899, male. 



Sphaerophthalma ursula Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 218, 

 1886, male. 



Ephuta (Ephuta) ursula Andb:^, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 64, 1903, male. 



Type. — Male, Texas, in collection of American Entomological So- 

 ciety of Philadelphia. 



Distribution. — Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Colorado, 

 Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and British Columbia. 

 (Fig. 13.) 



A male and female taken in copula were collected at Deming, 

 Luna County, N. Mex., July 12, 1917. The female has heretofore 

 been undescribed. The description is as follows : 



Female. — Dark mahogany red, except the front and vertex, dorsum 

 of thorax, and second abdominal tergite, all bright ferruginous, and 

 clothed with long, dense, erect, ferruginous pubescence; abdominal 

 tergites 3-5 clothed laterally with whitish pubescence, the third very 

 broadly, leaving a narrow median area of black, the fourth with a 



