IN-VESTIGATIONS ON THE MUTILLID WASPS 203 



Mutilla {Sphaerophthalma) gilhosa Blaice, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol 3, 



p. 240, 1871, male. 

 Spliaei-ophthalma giMosa Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol, 13, p. 231, 



18S6, male. 

 Epliuta {Eplmta) gibhosa Andee, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 60, 1903. mule. 

 Dasymutilhi {Dasymutilla) gibbosa Bradley, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 



42, p. 322, 1916, male. 

 Dasymutilla gibbosa Rohvpek, Bull. 22, Conn. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv., p. 624, 



1916, male.— MiCKEL, 19th Rep. State Ent. Minn., p. 106, 1923, male. 



Neotype. — Male, Middletown, N. Y., July 2-20, 1910 (Ch. 

 Spooner), in collection of Cornell University. 



Distribution. — Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Michigan, 

 Indiana, Illinois, and Minnesota. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Michigan: Male, Dexter, July 18, 1923 (B. G. Anderson). 



Minnesota: Male, Chisago County, July 18, 1911. 



New York: Male, Cold Springs Harbor, L. I., July 16, 1921 (S. H. Emerson) ; 



male, Ithaca, July 27. 1886 (A. M. Shaw) ; male. Rhinebeck, July 27, 1907 



(C. R. Crosby). 



Easily recognized by the entirely black body sparsely clothed with 

 grayish pubescence. Judging from the Mutillid fauna of Minnesota 

 cariniceps is probably the female of this species. This is in agree- 

 ment with Bradley's (1916) suggestion. This species is not closely 

 related to the preceding males. 



Group CANEO 



Females small, varying in length from 4.5 to 10 mm., head as wide 

 as the thorax; postero-lateral angles very weakly, obscurely tuber- 

 culate (the tubercle is limited to the occipital margin, is much re- 

 duced and indistinct) ; head and thorax more or less clothed with 

 silvery pubescence; sometimes thickly so; thorax long, subrectang- 

 ular ; scutellar scale present ; pygidium longitudinally striate. Males 

 unknown but probably belong to the following group. 



77. DASYMUTILLA CANEO (Blake) 



Mutilla caneo Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, p. 250, 1879, female.— 



Dalle Tokbe, Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 20, 1897, female.— Fox, Trans. Amer. 



Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 240, 1899, female. 

 Mutilla mixtura Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, p. 251, 1879, female. — 



Dalle Toeee, Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 63, 1897, female. 

 Sphaerophthalma mixtura Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 234, 



1886, female. 

 Sphaerophthalma caneo Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 241, 1886, 



female. 



