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pubescence ; pygidium longitudinally striate, the striae continuous to 

 the apical margin ; first sternite carinate medially but the carina not 

 prominent nor dentate; second sternite with large, very sparse, dis- 

 tinct punctures, densely punctate at the apical margin; sternites 3-5 

 densely punctate at the apical margin; sternites 2-5 with the apical 

 fringes silvery gray. 



Legs ferruginous, sparsely clothed with silvery gray pubescence; 

 calcaria ferruginous. 



Type. — Female, Falls Church, Virginia, July, in collection of 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Plesiotype. — Female, Cold Springs Harbor, L. I., June 17, 1923 

 (E. G. Anderson), in collection of University of Minnesota. 



Fig. 15. — Disteibution of Dasymutilla intkrrupta Banks 



Distribution. — Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsyl- 

 vania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Mississippi, Illinois, Indiana, 

 Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, 

 Kansas and Colorado. (Fig. 15.) 



SPECIMENS BXAMINED 



Colorado: Female, Colorado Springs, June 15-30, 1806 (H. F. Wickham) ; 

 female, Colorado Springs (W. M. Wheeler) ; female, Boulder Canyon, 1916 

 (Paul Blancbard and Nat Dodge). 



Illinois: Female, Bloomiugton, July 26, 1909: female, Bloomington, August 

 20, 1909; female, Bloomington, August 25, 1909; female, Bloomiugton, 

 August 26, 1909; female, Bloomington, August 30, 1909; 2 females, Bloom- 

 ington, September 2, 1909; female, Urbana, August 28, 1898; female, 

 Galesburg ; female, Aurora, June 28, 1909 ; female, McHenry, August, 1903, 



Indiana: Female, Lafayette, July 30, 1922 (J. J. Davis). 



