PRELIMINARY NOTES ON THE MUTILLIDAE OF MINNESOTA Til 
of the most common species found in those series. Superficially this 
is very much like agenor Fox, fenestrata Lepeletier, and several other 
species. The relationships of these species will be treated in a future 
paper. 
Dasymutilla admetus ( Blake) 
1872. Mutilla (Sphacrophthalma) admetus Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., iv, 
74 ¢- 
1899. Mutilla admetus Fox, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xxv, 245 ¢. 
Specimens examined: ¢ July 28, 1922, Fridley sand dunes, Anoka 
county (C. E. Mickel). 
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Genus TIMULLA Ashmead 
Key to the species 
Females 
1. Thorax with a distinct scutellar scale; last three abdominal segments 
ROLeLG Ess fire eects eee ees, Mee vray hare nents eect rasan So ope gee Neate are briaxus Blake 
Thorax without a scutellar scale; last three abdominal segments red...... 
SAG t ES Chak lad OS aes ERR ALCO Sc IEC ce Ona RnR ed Aer EE eH Cicer euterpe Blake 
Timulla briaxus (Blake) 
1871. Mutilla briaxus Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., ili, 227 ¢. 
1909. Mutilla (Timulla) briaxus Rohwer, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xxxv, 132 9. 
1916. Mutilla (Timulla) briaxus Bradley, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xlli, 207 ¢ 9. 
Specimens examined:  ¢ July 7, 1921, Lake Gity (A. A. Nichol); 
@ July 18, 1922, Newport (A. A. Nichol); 2 July 18, 1922, New- 
port (C. E. Mickel) ; ¢ June 27, 1921, Minneapolis (A. A. Nichol). 
Timulla euterpe (Blake) 
1879. Mutilla euterpe Blake, Trans, Amer. Ent. Soc., vii, 249 @ . 
Specimens examined: @ Hennepin county. 
A specimen of this species in the University of Minnesota collec- 
tion bears the above locality label. Whether the data are authentic 
or not, can not be determined. The species has been known hereto- 
fore only from the unique type collected in Florida. There is, there- 
fore, some doubt as to whether this species actually occurs - in 
Minnesota. 
Genus EPHUTA Say 
Ephuta conchate n. sp. 
@. Entirely black; length 9 mm. Head coarsely, confluently punctate, with 
appressed and erect, short, whitish pubescence; two low carinae diverge from 
between the antennae, then are subparallel to a point about half way to the 
margin of the clypeus, here they flare outward to the margin of the clypeus; 
