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gum, with the lateral basal margin of the segments, rufous ; venter 

 rufo-testaceous each side, dusky in the middle. 

 Length seven-twentieths of an inch. 



DOLERUS Jurine. 



D. collarts.— Black; thorax, rufous before. 



Inhabits Missouri. 



Body entirely black ; with the exception of a yellowish-rufous 

 [73] anterior thoracic, triangle, and anterior segment or collar of 

 the same color, which descends on each side. 



Length to the tip of the wings nine-twentieths of an inch. 



ANOMALON Jurine. 



A. flavicornis. — Black ; antennae yellow ; wings blackish ; 

 abdomen very much compressed. 



Inhabits Arkansa. 



Mouth piceous; thorax with two approximate dilated grooves 

 confluent behind ; scutel united to the thorax by a carinated line 

 each side ; tip of the superior wings, and tip of the interior mar- 

 gin of the inferior wings, broadly margined with blackish : abdo- 

 men dilated towards the tip, broad, very much compressed; 

 first segment sub-cylindric, nearly as long as the second and third 

 segments taken together, and geniculate at its union with the 

 second segment. 



Length more than one inch. 



I obtained an individual specimen near the Rocky Mountains 



MUTILLA of Authors. [74] 



M. quadriguttata. — First segment of the tergum with four 

 yellow dots. 



Inhabits near the Rocky Mountains. 



Body ferruginous, with confluent punctures ; antennae and 

 mandibles black at tip ; tergum black, first segment with four 

 yellow dots placed nearly equidistant two and two, the anterior 



