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Dasymutilla hirticula n sp. 
1899. Mutilla macra Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xxv, 245 g (in part). 
1916. Mutilla (Dasymutilla) macra Bradley, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xlti, 329 ¢ 
(not of Cresson). 
1916. Dasymutilla macra Rohwer, Hymen. Conn., Bull. 22, Conn. State Geolog. 
and Nat. Hist. Surv., 624 (not of Cresson). 
@. Black; second abdominal segment entirely ferruginous; length, 9mm. 
Head black, about as wide as the thorax, sparsely clothed with long, erect, black, 
pubescence; mandibles tridentate, i.e. acute at the apex end feebly bidentate 
within; clypeus feebly bidentate medially at the cephalic margin, finely, confluently 
punctate; scape closely punctate, with a sharp, longitudinal carina beneath; front 
with strong, confluent punctures; vertex and genae punctate, but with the punc- 
tures more separated than on the front; eyes round, very prominent. 
Thorax black, sparsely clothed with long, black pubescence; pronotum, meso- 
notum, end scutellum with strong, deep, confluent punctures; dorsum and pos- 
terior face of propodeum coarsely reticulate; propleura with strong, confluent 
punctures, cephalic margin rounded; mesepisternum and mesepimeron with large, 
separated punctures, interspersed with a few very fine punctures; metapleura 
polished, except the basal one-fourth, which is rugosely punctate; sides of propo- 
deum polished, with a few scattered punctures; tegulae polished, with a few punc- 
tures at the base. 
Abdomen black, the second abdominal segment entirely ferruginous, clothed 
with long, shaggy, black pubescence, except that on the apical four-fifths of the 
second tergite dark orange-colored; first segment strongly petiolate; first tergite 
with coarse, confluent punctures throughout; second tergite with elongate, sep- 
arated punctures, the latter finer and closer on the apicel margin; tergites 3-6 
with fine, close punctures, ultimate tergite longitudinally rugose; second sternite 
with distinct, well-separated punctures: sternites 3-6 with fine, confluent punctures 
at the apical margin; ultimate sternite closely, irregulerly punctate. 
Wings dark; cell R4 indistinct. 
Legs black, clothed with black hairs. 
Holotype: ¢ July 28, 1922, Fridley sand dunes, Anoka county, 
Minn. (C. E. Mickel), collection University of Minnesota. 
Earasypes: CONNECTICUT: 4 4é° August's, 1915, Lyme. DIS- 
DPaCGiy OF -COLUMBIA:...¢ .Atigust/ 21; . 18098, Washington: 
Pe@meatess) 6  jily 20, 1976, Brinson.. LLULLNOIS: “6 July 15, 
1894, Algonquin; ¢ July 19, 1895, Algonquin; ¢ July 20, 1895, Al- 
eonquine “MASSACHUSETTS: 3) MINNESOTA: -¢ August 
25 1oer, Houston, county (J. D.. Winter); .¢ July 27, 1922, Ft. 
Snelling (C. E. Mickel); 23 July 28, 1922, Fridley sand dunes, 
Anoka county (Paul Gilmer) ; 24 July 28, 1922, Fridley sand dunes, 
mnaaka county s(C: HE. Mickel).: NEBRASKA: 204 August 16, 
1912, Monroe Canyon, Sioux county (R. W. Dawson); 96 August 
16, 1912, Monroe Canyon, Sioux county (FE. J. Taylor); ¢ August 
6, 1908, Monroe Canyon, Sioux county (C. H. Gable); ¢ Bad Lands, 
