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5.5 mm. to 12 mm. The specimens at hand show slight variations in 

 intensity of coloration. Banks described this species originally as a 

 variety of cypris (Blake), but his type is cospecific with the material 

 placed here, and thus interrupta becomes the valid name of the spe- 

 cies. An examination of the type of interrupta has shown that it 

 does not* correspond in all respects with the plesiotype, from which 

 the above description was drawn, but the points of difference are 

 slight and appear to be well within the limits of individual variation. 

 I have therefore not designated these variants with varietal names. 



53. DASYMUTILLA CYPRIS (Blake) 



Mutilla cypris Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, p. 246, 1871, female; 



Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, p. 245, 1879, female.— Dalle Torbe, Cat. 



Hymen., vol. 8, p. 29, 1897, female. — Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol 



25, p. 240, 1899, female. 

 Mutilla rmitata Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, p. 247, 1871, female; 



Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, p. 245, 1879, female.— Dat.t.is Tobrk, Cat 



Hymen., vol. 8, p. 65, 1897, female. 

 Sphaerophthalma cypris Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol, 13, p. 239, 1886, 



female. 

 Sphaerophthalma mutata Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 241, 



1886, female. 

 Ephuta (Ephuta) cypris Andb6, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc 11, p. 59, 1903, female. 

 Dasymutilla mutata tmamensis Rohweb, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, p. 



462, 1912, female. 

 Dasymutilla {Dasymutilla) ruUcunda Beadley, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 



42, p. 325, 1916, female. 

 Dasymutilla rubicunda Banks, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 14, p. 25, 1921 



female. 



Type. — Female, Georgia, in collection of the American Entomo- 

 logical Society of Philadelphia. The type of mutata is in the col- 

 lection of the American Entomological Society of Philadelphia. The 

 type of mutata miamensis is in the United States National Museum. 

 The type of rubicunda is in the collection of Cornell University. 



Distribution. — New Jersey, West Virginia, Georgia, Florida, and 

 Mississippi. (Fig. 16.) 



8PBCIMENS EXAMINED 



E^lobida: Female, Miami, March 3 (D. M. Belong); female, Gulfport, June 

 (Reynolds) ; female, Gulfport, September (Reynolds) ; female, Titusville, 

 November 8, 1911; female, Orlando, May 13, 1925 (O. C. McBride) ; female. 

 Fort Reed, April 14, 1886; female. Fort Reed, April 22, 1886; female. 

 Enterprise, April 20 (D. M. Castle); female, Ocala, October 24, 1919; 

 female, Gainesville, March 19, 1922; female, Gainesville, March 24, 1923; 



