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92. DASYMUTILLA KLUGII (Gray) 



Mutilla klugii Gray, Griffith's Anim. King., Ins., vol. 2, p. 516, pi. 71, fig. 2, 



1832, female. — Smith, Cat. Hymen. Brit. Mus., vol. 3. p. 55, 1855, female. — 



Dalle Torre, Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 52, 1897, female. 

 Mutilla orcus Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., vol. 4, p. 428, 1865, female, 



male. — Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, p. 243, 1879, male, female. — 



Dalle Torre, Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 69, 1897, female, male.— Fox, Trans. 



Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 25, p. 238, 1899, female, male.— Melander, Trans. 



Amer, Ent. Soc., vol, 29, p. 296, 1903, female, male. 

 Mutilla (Sphaerophtliahyia) orcus Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, p. 



233, 1871, female, male ; Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 71, 1872, male, 



female. 

 Sphaerophthalma onus Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 209, 1886, 



female, male. 

 Sphaerophthalma klugii Cameron, Biol. Centr.-Amer., pt. 123, Hymen., vol. 



2, p. 363, 1895.) 

 Ephuta orcus Cocke3:ell, Proc Dav. Acad. Nat. Sci., vol. 7, p. 140, 1898. 

 Ephuta {Ephuta) orcus Andr^, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 62, 1903, female, 



malie. 

 klugi Anpre, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc 11, p. 73, 1903, female. 



Neofype. — Female, Rio Grande, Brewster County, Texas, June 13- 

 17, 1908 (Mitchell and Cushman) ; in collection of United States Na- 

 tional Museuem. The type of orcus is in the collection of the Ameri- 

 can Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 



Distnhution. — Texas, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Ari- 

 zona, Mexico. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Arizona: Female, Douglas, August 14, 1924 (H. Letcher) ; male, Douglas, Au- 

 gust (F. H. Snow); female, Bowie, July 14, 1917; male. Fort Grant, 

 Pinaleno Mountains, July 15, 1917 ; female, Fort Grant, Pinaleno Mountains, 

 July 18, 1917 ; female, 5 males, Fort Grant, Pinaleno Mountains, July 15-19, 

 1917; male. Post Creek Canyon, Pinaleno Mountains, Fort Grant, July IS- 

 IS, 1917; male, Chiricahua Mountains (R. B. Mann) ; male, Nogales, June 

 27, 1903 (Oslar) ; female, Carr Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, August, 1905 

 (H. Skinner) ; female, Huachuca Mountains, August 15, 1903 (Oslar) ; 

 female, Huachuca Mountains, July 8 ; female, Huachuca Mountains, July 

 20; female, Santa Rita Mountains, June (F. H. Snow) ; 3 females, Santa 

 Rita Mountains, July (F, H. Snow) ; female, male, Santa Rita Mountains, 

 August 29, 1924 (A. A. Nichol) ; 3 females, Bonita, Gowdy Creek Canyon, 

 July 18, 1917 (H. H. Knight) ; female, Santa Catalina Mountains, Septem- 

 ber 10, 1924 (A. A. Nichol) ; male, Florence, June 24, 1903; female, Flor- 

 ence, July 13, 1903 (C. R. Biederman) ; male, Florence, July 29, 1917; 

 female, Florence (C. R. Biederman) ; 2 females. Buckeye, August 7, 1919; 

 female. Buckeye, August 11, 1913 (O. C. Bartlett) ; female, male, Sacaton, 

 July 25, 1924 (J. A. Harris, Jr.) ; female, Sacaton, July 26, 1924 (J. A. 

 Harris, Jr.) ; female, Sacaton, July 27, 1924 (J. A. Harris, Jr.) ; female, 



^ Sacaton, July, 1924 (J. A. Harris, Jr.) ; female. Phoenix, August, 1917; 2 

 females, Payson, July 25, 1892; female, Prescott, August, 1917; female, 

 Prescott ; 3 females, Winslow (Wickham) ; female, Patagonia Mountains, 



