262 BULLETIN 143, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Dasymutilla (Dasymutilla) obscura Bravley, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 



42, p. 330, 1916, male, female. 

 Dasymutilla obscura Banks, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 14, p. 25, 1921, 



female. 

 Dasi/mutilla admetus Mickel, 19th Kept. State Ent. Minn., p. Ill, 1923, 



male. 



Type. — Male, Massachusetts, collection of Prof. Louis Agassiz. 

 The type of this species is apparently lost, I have been unable to 

 locate it in the collections of the American Entomological Society 

 of Philadelphia or in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 

 Cambridge. The types of scaevola., macer^ and admetus are in the 

 collection of the American Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 

 The type of apachea is in the collection of the University of Kansas. 



Plesiotype. — Male, Louisiana, in collection of United States 

 National Museum. 



Fig. 28. — Distkibdtion op Dasymutilla obscura (Blake) 



Distribution. — ^Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 

 Georgia, Tennessee, Minnesota, Iowa, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, 

 Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, 

 Wyoming, Montana. (Fig. 28.) 



SPECIMENS EXAMINED 



Arizona: Male, Fort Apache, August 26, 1897 (Type of apachea Vlereck). 

 CoLOEADo: Female, VaDale, August 15, 1903; male. Fort Collins, July 4, 1900; 



female, Salida, July 24, 1906 (W. M. Wheeler). 

 Geobgia: Female, 2 males, Tallulah Falls, June 19-25, 1909 (J. C. Bradley) ; 



male, Dewitt, Mitchell County, August 7, 1915 (C. S. Spooner). 

 Iowa: Female, Sioux City, July 27, 1923 (C. N. Ainslie). 

 Kansas: Female, Wellsville, July 23, 1901; female, Wabaunsee County (Forrest 



Anderson) ; 4 females, Riley County, June 26 (G. A. Dean) ; female, Riley 



County, July 3, (Popenoe) ; female, Riley County, July 22 (J. B, Norton) ; 



