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Abdomen dark mahogany red; first tergite, basal half of second 

 tergite, and all the sternites clothed with sparse, long, erect, black 

 pubescence; apical half of second tergite, tergites 3-6, and basal 

 portion of ultimate tergite clothed with long, somewhat dense, erect, 

 yellowish pubescence ; first tergite coarsely, densely punctate through- 

 out; second tergite closely, for the most part distinctly, punctate, 

 the punctures large and elongate; tergites 3-6 closely, moderately 

 punctate; pygidium somewhat longitudinally rugose; apical margin 

 of ultimate tergite with a fringe of short, erect, black hairs; first 

 sternite with a median longitudinal carina, coarsely punctate ; second 

 sternite with large, elongate punctures, sparse medially, close later- 

 ally ; apical margin of sternites 3-6 finely punctate ; ultimate sternite 

 moderately, closely punctate throughout. 



Legs dark mahogany red, sparsely clothed with long, black hairs; 

 calcaria dark. 



Wings dark fuliginous; cell 2nd R^ + Ro broadly truncate at the 

 apex; cell R^ almost obsolete; vein M3+4 received by cell R5 at one- 

 third the distance from the base to the apex of the latter ; veins r-m 

 and R5 separated on vein r. 



Holofype.— Male, Cat. No. 40756, U.S.N.M., Texas. 



Paratype. — Male, Anhalt, Comal County, Texas, June 28, 1917, in 

 collection of Cornell University. 



139. DASYMUTILLA PEEILLA var. GENTILICIA, new variety 



Male. — Like ferilla, except the vertex and dorsum of thorax clothed 

 with yellowish pubescence. 



Holotype. — Male, Wallace County, Kansas, July 8, in collection of 

 Kansas State Agricultural College. 



Paratypes. — Male, La Junta, Colorado, July 22-23, 1919 (Rehn and 

 Hebard), in collection of American Entomological Society of Phila- 

 delphia ; male, without data, in collection of University of Minnesota. 



With the exception of the color of the pubescence on the vertex and 

 on the dorsum of the thorax, this variety is identical with perilla^ 

 The genitalia are alike in both. 



140. DASYMUTILLA PHAON (Fox) 



Plate 5, fig. 42 



Mutilla phaon Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 243, 1899, male. 

 Mutilla gorgon Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 25, p. 248, 1899, male (not 



female). 

 Ephuta (Ephuta) phaon Andr^, Gen. Ins., vol. 1, fasc. 11, p. 62, 1903, male. 



Type. — Male, Arizona, in collection of American Entomological 

 Society of Philadelphia. The specimen described by Fox as the male 



