INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MUTILLID WASPS 



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calif omica^ with the exception of the black marking of the abdomen, 

 I regard it as only a variety of calif ornica. 



67. DASYMUTILLA CARINICEPS (Fox) 



Mutilla cariniceps Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 241, 1899, female. 

 Ephuta (Ephuta) cariniceps Andee, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 58, 1903, 



female. 

 Dasymutilla scrobinata, Rohweb, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, p. 462, 1912, 



female; Bull. 22, Conn. Geol. & Nat. Hist. Surv., p. 625, 1916, female.— 



Rau, Trans. Acad. Scl. St. Louis, vol. 24, p. 6, 1922, female. 

 Dasymutilla {Dasymutilla) cariniceps Bbadley, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 



42, p. 323, 1916, female. 

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



female. — Mickel, 19th Rep. State Ent. Minnesota, p. 106, 1923, female. 



Type. — Female, New Jersey, in collection of American Entomo- 

 logical Society of Philadelphia. 



K Fig. 18. — Distkibotion of Dasymdtilla cakikiceps (Fox) 



T Distribution. — Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Minnesota. (Fig. 



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SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Connecticut: Female, Hartford, September 15, 1895. 



Illinois: Female, McHenry, August, 1903. 



Massachusetts: Female, Nantucket Island; female. Mount Toby, Franklin 



County, September 28, 1919 (Friscilla Butler) ; female. Great Barrington, 



July 24, 1910. 

 Michigan : Female, Agricultural College, July 27, 1887 (Gillette); female, 



(Gillette) ; female, Berrien County, Warren Woods, September 7, 1920 



(T. H. Hubbell) ; female. 



