180 BULLETIN 143, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Legs dark ferruginous, sparsely clothed with long, silvery to dark 

 hairs. 



Holotype. — Female, Greeley County, Kans. (F. X. Williams), in 

 collection of University of Kansas. 



Paratype. — Female, Colorado (Popenoe), in collection of Kansas 

 Agricultural College. 



Very distinct and easily recognized by the shape of the head, 

 the thin brush of golden pubescence on the propodeum, and the large, 

 campanulate, yellow spot of the second tergite. The paratype is 

 slightly lighter in color with a length of only 8 mm. 



64. DASYMUTILLA CORCYRA, new species 



Female. — Ferruginous, dorsum of thorax and base of second tergite 

 with sparse, appressed, black pubescence; second tergite with an 

 apical fringe of black pubescence ; propodeum with a thick brush of 

 long, silvery pubescence on the posterior face above; remainder of 

 body with sparse, silvery pubescence; head subquadrate, squarely 

 truncate behind. Length, 8 mm. 



Head ferruginous, clothed with sparse, appressed, silvery pubes- 

 cence, and scattered, darker, erect hairs ; mandibles acute at the apex, 

 unidentate on the inner margin; cephalic half of clypeus trans- 

 versely concave, the surface glabrous, impunctate; caudal half with 

 the medium surface confluently, finely punctate ; clypeal fringe, long 

 and thin; scape obscurely punctate; first segment of the flagellum 

 shorter than segments two and three united, twice as long as it is 

 broad at the apex; antennal scrobes not carinate above; front and 

 vertex shallowly, confluently punctate; genae with the punctures 

 more distinct and separated, less sculptured than the front and 

 vertex; posterior portion of head squarely truncate, the lateral 

 margins of the head scarcely converging to meet the postero-lateral, 

 angles; postero-lateral angles very prominent, bearing a triangular, 

 glabrous tubercle; relative widths of head and thorax, 5.75-6. 



Thorax ferruginous; junction of cephalic face and dorsum of 

 pronotum angulate; pronotum and mesonotum coarsely, confluently 

 foveolate, clothed with sparse, appressed, black pubescence and scat- 

 tered, erect hairs, the sides of the mesonotum with traces of sparse, 

 appressed, silvery pubescence; propleura with large confluent punc- 

 tures near the cephalic margin, scattered, smaller punctures caudally ; 

 anterior half of mesonotum glabrous, indistinctly punctate, the 

 posterior half coarsely, confluently punctate; metapleura glabrous, 

 with a few, scattered punctures on the ventral half; sides of pro- 

 podeum glabrous, with a few scattered, distinct punctures; posterior 

 face of propodeum coarsely sculptured, but hidden by the dense, 

 thick brush of long, silvery pubescence on the dorsal half; scutellar 

 scale very prominent. 



