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Bernardino County; female, Claremont (Essig) ; female, Mountains near 

 Claremont (Baker) ; female, Delano, June 21 (H. M. Jeancou) ; female, 

 Coalinga, June 1-3, 1907 (Bradley) ; female. Pacific Grove (Saunders) ; 

 female, Carmel, June 4; female, Carmel, July 7, 1915; female, Stanford 

 University, June, 1916 (I. McCracken) ; female, Berkeley (E. P. Van 

 Duzee) ; 2 females. Point Reyes, September 10, 1906 ; female, Marin 

 County, September 8, 1904; female. 

 Utah: Female, Trout Creek, Ibapah Mountains, September 4, 1922 (Tom Spald- 

 ing) ; female. North Fork, Provo Canyon, September 13 (Tom Spalding) ; 

 female, Logan; female, Avon, August 19, 1920 (G. E. King). 



The specimens at hand vary in size from 5.5 mm. to 12 mm.; one 

 specimen has the pygidium longitudinally rugose instead of irregu- 

 larly rugose; several specimens have the anterior margin of the 

 yellow pubescence of the abdomen above cordate in outline, while 

 the majority of them have the yellow pubescence extending to the 

 anterior margin of the second tergite. The lateral tubercles on the 

 posterior margin of the head, and the long, erect, very dense, black 

 pubescence on the dorsal half of the posterior face of the propodeum 

 will at once distinguish this species from any of those that resemble 

 it superficially. 



66. DASYMUTILLA CALIFORNICA var. CLIO (Blake) 



MutiUa Clio Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, p. 251, 1879, female. — 

 Dalle Torbe, Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 25, 1897, female. — Fox, Trans. Amer, 

 Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 238, 1899, female. 



Sphaerophthalma clio Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13 p. 214, 1886, 

 female. 



Ephuta {Ephiita) clio Andk]&, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 58, 1908, female. 



Type. — Female, Vancouver's Island (H. Edwards), in collection of 

 Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 

 Distribution. — Idaho, British Columbia. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Idaho: Female, Boise, June 29, 1902 (H. E. Burke). 



The type has been examined and the specimen from Idaho found to 

 be identical with it. This latter specimen is also identical with speci- 

 mens of calif ornica from California in every respect except the black 

 spot on the apical margin of tergite 2, median portion of tergite 3, 

 and extending onto the median portion of tergite 4. This spot is 

 formed by long, black hairs intermixed with a few long, yellow hairs. 

 A specimen of calif ornica from Dyerville, Calif., exhibits a tendency j 

 towards the formation of a similar spot, there being enough black 

 hairs on the median apical margin of tergite 2 to give a faint indica- 

 tion of such a marking. Since clio is identical in every way with 



