176 BULLETIlSr 143, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Paratypes. — Female, Payne County, Okla., June 3, 1925 (W. J. 

 Brown) ; female, Payne County, Okla., June 13, 1925 (W. J. 

 Brown) ; 5 females, Payne County, Okla., June 24, 1924 (W. J. 

 Brown) ; female, Kooks County, Kans., August 27 ; 2 females, Clark 

 County, Kans., June (Snow) ; female, Seward County, Kans., August 

 18, 1911 (F. X. Williams) ; female. Grant County, Kans., July 23, 

 1911 (F. X. Williams) ; female, western Kansas (Popenoe) ; female, 

 Colorado County, Tex., July 18, 1922 (Grace O. Wiley). Paratypes 

 in collections of University of Minnesota, United States National 

 Museum, University of Kansas, Kansas Agricultural College, Cornell 

 University, W. J. Brown, and the author. 



This species is beautifully marked and easily identified. It differs 

 from higuttata in having the head black, a thin brush of hairs on the 

 propodeum and the apical fringes of the first, second, and third 

 tergites black. The specimen from Texas has the pubescence and 

 fringes of all the tergites black. 



60. DASYMUTILLA ELECTRA (Blake) 



Mutilla electra Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 75, 1872, female; 



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



Hymen., vol. 8, p. 33, 1897, female. 

 Sphaerophthalma eJectra Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 248, 1S86, 



female. 

 Mutilla quadnguttata Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 239, 1899, 



female (part). — Melandeb, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 29, p. 297, 1903, 



female (part). 



Type. — Female, Dallas County, Tex. Blake described this species 

 from two female specimens in the Boll collection loaned him by the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. He returned 

 one specimen to the Museum of Comparative Zoology and evidently 

 kept one at Philadelphia. One of the two must be considered the 

 type. In the case of uniques of other species the specimens were 

 returned to Cambridge, so it would seem that the specimen in the 

 collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology should be regarded 

 as the type. The specimen at Cambridge and the one at Philadelphia 

 are conspecific, so our conception of the species would not be altered 

 in any case. 



Distribution. — ^Texas. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Texas: Female, Olivia, August 26, 1909 (J. D. Mitchell); 2 females, Cuero, 

 June 19 (Townsend) ; female, Colorado County, June 5, 1922 (Grace O. 

 Wiley) ; female. Rock Island, June 9, 1922 (Grace O. Wiley) ; female, 

 Colorado County, June 23, 1922 (Grace O. Wiley) ; female, Colorado County, 

 July 18. 1922 (Grace O. Wiley) ; female. Rock Island, August 5, 1922 (Grace 

 O. Wiley) ; female, Colorado County, September 8, 1922 (Grace O. Wiley) ; 



