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of gorgon with the reddish pubescence on the head and thorax, 

 described by Fox (1899), evidently belongs here. 



105. DASYMUTILLA AUREOLA (Cresson) 



Plate 4, fig. 28 



Mutilla aureola Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., vol. 4, p. 386, 1865, female.— 

 Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 7, p. 244, 1879, female.— Dalle Toree, 

 Cat. Hymen., vol. 8, p. 13, 1897, female.— Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 

 25, p. 248, 1899, female, male.— Melander, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 29, 

 p. 302, 1903. 



Mutilla iSphaerophthalma) aureola Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, 

 p. 235, 1871, female. 



Sphaei-ophtJialma parmosa Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 210, 

 1886, female. 



Fig. 27. — Distribution of Dasymutilla aureola (Cresson) 



8pliaeropMhalma aureola Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 215, 



1886, female. 

 Sphaerophthalma molUssima Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 13, p. 215, 



1886, female, male. 

 Ephuta (Ephuta) aureola Ande^, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc 11, p. 57, 1903, 



female. 



Type.—'FQmaiQ, California, collection of American Entomological 

 Society of Philadelphia. The types of parmosa and molUssima are 

 in the collection of the American Entomological Society of Philadel- 

 phia. 



Distribution. — California, Nevada, and Oregon. (Fig. 27.) 



The description of the male is as follows : 



Male. — Very dark mahogany red ; length 10 mm. 



Head very dark mahogany red; front and vertex clothed with 

 long, erect, golden-yellow hairs, remainder of head clothed with 



