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second tergite with very large, close, foveate punctures throughout, 

 closer and more or less confluent on the disk; clothed with sparse, 

 erect, pale hairs, a submedian (slightly anterior to median) spot of 

 appressed black pubescence, and an apical fringe of silvery pubes- 

 cence, interrupted medially by a small spot of black pubescence ; ter- 

 gites 3-5 with small close punctures; tergite 3 clothed with sparse, 

 silvery pubescence, except for a transverse median spot of black 

 pubescence ; tergites 4 and 5 with sparse, silvery pubescence ; margins 

 of pygidial segment with long, dark hairs ; pygidium longitudinally 

 striate ; carina of first sternite not dentate ; second sternite with large, 

 close punctures, the apical margin, densely, continently punctate, 

 clothed with scattered, erect, pale hairs, and a thin apical fringe of 

 silvery pubescence; sternites 3-5 densely, confluently punctate near 

 the apical margin, and each with a thin apical fringe of silvery 

 pubescence; ultimate tergite punctate apically and clothed with 

 sparse, erect, silvery pubescence. 



Legs ferruginous, sparsely clothed with silvery pubescence; calca- 

 ria and tibial spines dark. 



EoJotype. — Female, Bonita, Graham County, Ariz., July 12, 1917 

 (J. Bequaert), in collection of University of Minnesota. 



Paratype. — Female, Bonita, Graham County, Ariz., July 12, 1917 

 (J. Bequaert), in collection of J. Bequaert. 



Related to ccmeo^ birkvianiy and paenulata but quite distinct from 

 them by the much longer first segment of the flagellum, pubescent 

 maculation of the first tergite, and the submedian black pubescent 

 spot of the second tergite. 



81. DASYMUTILLA EURYNOME. new species 



Female. — Head and thorax dark ferruginous sparsely clothed with 

 appressed, silvery pubescence and scattered, erect, dark hairs; ab- 

 domen ferruginous; first tergite broadly margined at the apex with 

 silvery pubescence; second tergite with a submedian spot of black 

 pubescence and small contiguous punctures; apical silverj^ fringe of 

 second tergite interrupted medially by a spot of black pubescence; 

 length, 7 mm. 



Head dark ferruginous, sparsely clothed throughout with appres- 

 sed, silvery pubescence and scattered, erect, dark hairs; mandibles 

 acute at the apex, feebly unidentate within; anterior margin of 

 clypeus very feebly bidentate medially; anterior half of clypeus 

 glabrous, impunctate, separated from the posterior half by a sinuate 

 carina ; posterior half densely punctate and pubescent, the pubescence 

 forming the clypeal fringe; scape indistinctly punctate, sparsely 

 clothed with silvery pubescence ; first segment c»f flagellum about twice 

 as long as its own width at the apex, approximately equal in length 



