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20, 1922 CT. H. Hubbell) ; female, Harriman, September 3; female, Nashville 



(G. G. Ainslie) ; female, Hurricane Mills, July, 1912 (G. G. Ainslie) ; 



female, Pittsburg Landing, July 25, 1896 (C. Cadle) ; 2 females, Memphis; 



female, Redfoot Lake, Obion County, September 5, 1919 (F. M. Gaige) ; 



male. 

 Texas : 2 females. Cypress Mills ; 2 males, southeast Texas, 1918 (W. W. 



DeCell) ; female. 

 VuiGiNiA : Female, Drummond Lake, October 29, 1906 (H. S. Barber) ; female. 



Greenwood, September 1 (C. Dinwuddie) ; male, Richmond, August 9, 1916 



(Wm. T. Davis) ; female. 

 "West Virginia: Female, 5 males, Milville (J. C. Bradley). 



The color of the pubescence above varies from bright scarlet to 

 pale yellow ; many variations in color between these two extremes are 

 to be found in all parts of the range of this species. The pale yellow 

 specimens are not confined to the southern portion of its range as 

 suggested by Bradley (1916) in separating the yellow form as the 

 species comanche, but are found in material from New Jersey and 

 other northern points. The variety conianche also exhibits the same 

 variation in color between scarlet and pale yellow, has a more western 

 distribution, and can be separated from occidentalis on structural 

 characters. 



90. DASYMUTILLA OCCroENTALIS var. COMANCHE (Blake) 



Mutilla (Sphaerophthalnui) comanche Blake, Trans. Amer. Eut. Soc, vol. 



3, p. 234, 1871, female, male. 

 Sphaerophthalma comanche Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 211, 



1886, female, male. 

 Mutilla comanche Dalle Toere, Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 25, 1S97. — Fox, 



Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 237, 1899, female, male.^ — Melander, 



Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 29, p. 296, 1903. 

 Ephuta (Ephtita) comanche Andre, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 58, 1903, 



female, male. 



Types- — Male and female. Texas, in collection of American 

 Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 



Distribution. — Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, 

 Iowa, and South Dakota. (Fig. 23.) 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Colorado: Female, Holly, September 8, 1898; female, Lamar, July 10, 1899; 3 

 females, 6 males. La Junta. August 3 (Lantz) ; female, Snyder, August 2, 

 1899 ; female, Fort Collins, July 19, 1902 ; 2 females. 



Iowa: Female, Council Bluffs, July 19, 1914 (T. W. Dorland). 



Kansas: Female, Neosho County (R. H. Beamer) ; 2 females, 2 males, Allen 

 County; female, Ottawa, July 13, 1924 (W. J. Brown) ; female, Douglas 

 County, July 31, 1919 (W. E. Hoffmann) ; female, Douglas County, August 3, 

 1920 (W. E. Hoffmann) ; male, Douglas County, August 4, 1919 (W. E. Hoff- 

 mann) ; female, Wabaunsee County (Forrest Anderson) ; female, Butler 

 County, 1916 (R. H. Beamer) ; 2 females, Riley County, July 21 (Popenoe) ; 

 male, Riley County, August 19 (Popenoe) ; female, Riley County, August 

 (Popenoe) ; female, Riley County (Popenoe) ; 2 males, Riley County, Jxily 



