INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MUTILLID WASPS 277 



are additional characters which serve to distinguish creon. Bollii 

 Fox is almost without question the female of this species. It in- 

 habits the same region, and has the pygidium pubescent in the same 

 manner as creon. 



123. DASYMUTILLA BOLLII (Fox) 



Mutilla bollii Fox, Trans. Amer, Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 242, 1899, female. 

 EpJmta {Ephuta) bollii Andre, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 5S, 1903, female. 

 Mutilla bollii. Melandeb, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 29, p. 301, 1903, female. 

 Dasymutilla blawana RoHVi^EB, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, p. 461, 1912, 

 female.— Rau, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 24, no. 7, p. 6, 1922, female. 



Type. — Female, Dallas, Texas (Boll), in collection of American 

 Entomological Society of Philadelphia. The type of blawaiia is in 

 the United States National Museum. 



Distribution. — Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kan- 

 sas. 



SPECIMENS EXAMINBD 



Kansas: Female, Neosho County, June 13, 1919 (Grace O. Wiley); female, 

 Labette County (R. H. Beamer). 



Louisiana: Female, Gilliam, September 6, 1907 (F. C. Bishopp). 



Mississippi: Female, Agricultural College, April 7, 1922 (M. D. Woodbury); 

 female, Agricultural College, July 15, 1914 (C. C. Greer) ; female, Agricul- 

 tural College, October 23, 1917 (F. H. Jones). 



Oklahoma: Female, Payne County, June 24, 1925 (W. J. Brown); female. 

 Payne County, July 5, 1925 (W. J. Brown) ; female, Payne County, July 9, 

 1925 (W. J. Brown) ; female, Payne County, September 5, 1923 (W. J. 

 Brown) ; femnle, Payne County, September 8, 1923 (W. J. Brown). 



Texas: Female, Victoria, June 27, 1906 (W. E. Hinds); female, Richmond, 

 June 22, 1917; female, Beaumont, August 10, 1917 (E. L. Diven) ; female, 

 Cuero (Townsend) ; female, Navasota, August 14, 1915 (H.) ; female, 

 Calvert, October 25, 1903 (A. W. Morrill) ; female, Calvert, April 5 (C. R. 

 Jones) ; female, Calvert (G. H. Harris) ; 2 females, Fedor, August, 1905; 

 female, Fedor; female, Lee County, June, 1905; female, Lee County, 

 August, 1905; female, Cameron, August 9, 1906 (J. C. Crawford) ; female, 

 Willow City, May 26, 1906 (F. C. Pratt) ; female, Rosser, September 23, 

 1905 (C. R. Jones) ; female, Overton, August 22, 1907 (W. W. Yothers) ; 

 female. Rock Island, July 25, 1922 (Grace O. Wiley) ; female, Eastland 

 County, May 31, 1921 (Grace O. Wiley) ; female. Sulphur Springs, October 

 4, 1904 (F. C. Bishopp) ; female, Paris; 2 females (Belfrage) ; 4 females. 



The type of this species has been examined and found to be 

 identical with the above specimens. The species is readily recognized 

 by the presence of pubescence on the pygidial area. The length 

 varies from 8 mm. to 13 mm. I have examined the type of blawana 

 Rohwer and find it to be the same as this species. 



Group ARENIVAGA 



Females with the head narrower than the thorax; eyes unusually 

 large, the distance between the eye margins and the postero-lateral 



