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  REPORT 
  OF 
  NEW 
  JERSEY 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  Family 
  MUTILLID^. 
  

  

  The 
  females 
  resemble 
  ants 
  in 
  general 
  shape, 
  in 
  being 
  often 
  wingless 
  

   and 
  in 
  being 
  found 
  running 
  about 
  among 
  the 
  grass 
  in 
  sandy 
  spots. 
  They 
  

   are 
  densely 
  clothed 
  with 
  hair, 
  however, 
  and 
  are 
  contrastingly 
  colored 
  with 
  

   black, 
  yellow 
  and 
  orange, 
  the 
  name 
  "velvet 
  ants" 
  being 
  applied 
  from 
  

   their 
  clothing. 
  They 
  differ 
  from 
  the 
  ants 
  in 
  lacking 
  the 
  nodes 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  and 
  from 
  our 
  local 
  species 
  further, 
  in 
  having 
  a 
  very 
  

   long 
  and 
  very 
  hot 
  sting. 
  The 
  males 
  are 
  winged 
  and 
  occur 
  on 
  flowers. 
  

   In 
  habit 
  the 
  species 
  are 
  diggers, 
  and 
  while 
  some 
  are 
  known 
  to 
  store 
  food 
  

   for 
  their 
  larvse, 
  others 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  parasitic 
  or 
  guests 
  in 
  the 
  nests 
  and 
  

   cells 
  of 
  bees 
  and 
  other 
  wasps. 
  

  

  MUTILLA 
  Linn. 
  

   SPH^ROPHTHALMA 
  Blake. 
  

  

  M. 
  balteola 
  Blake. 
  Westville 
  (Crn). 
  

  

  M. 
  bexar 
  Blake. 
  Camden 
  Co. 
  VIII 
  (Fox); 
  Lucaston 
  IX, 
  2 
  (Dke). 
  

  

  M. 
  canella 
  Blake. 
  Camden, 
  Gloucester 
  Co. 
  VII 
  (Fox); 
  N. 
  Woodbury 
  VI, 
  

   21 
  (Vk); 
  Brown's 
  Mills 
  VI, 
  21 
  (CG) 
  ; 
  Manumuskin 
  VII, 
  5 
  (Dke). 
  

  

  M. 
  cypris 
  Blake, 
  (mutata 
  Blake.) 
  Throughout 
  the 
  State 
  all 
  season; 
  not 
  

   rare. 
  

  

  M. 
  lepeletieri 
  Fox. 
  (fenestrata 
  Lep.) 
  Throughout 
  the 
  State 
  VII-IX. 
  

  

  M. 
  ferrugata 
  Fab. 
  Throughout 
  the 
  State 
  VII-IX; 
  not 
  rare. 
  

  

  M. 
  harmonia 
  Fox. 
  Palisades 
  VI, 
  12, 
  Brown's 
  Mills 
  VI, 
  25 
  (Dke); 
  Glou- 
  

   cester 
  Co., 
  type 
  locality 
  in 
  New 
  Jersey 
  (Vk) 
  ; 
  Lakehurst 
  VII, 
  4 
  (Coll). 
  

  

  M. 
  macra 
  Cress. 
  South 
  of 
  the 
  Piedmont 
  Plain 
  VII-IX; 
  not 
  rare. 
  

  

  M. 
  scaevola 
  Blake. 
  Caldwell 
  (Cr) 
  ; 
  Westville 
  (Cm); 
  Camden 
  Co. 
  V, 
  18 
  

   (Fox). 
  

  

  M. 
  castor 
  Blake. 
  Westville 
  VIII, 
  Clemenfon 
  VII, 
  VIII 
  (Vk) 
  ; 
  Pemberton 
  

   VII, 
  IX 
  (Hk) 
  ; 
  Brown's 
  Mills 
  VI, 
  21 
  (GG) 
  ; 
  Lahaway 
  VII, 
  Lakehurst 
  

   VIII 
  (Coll); 
  DaCosta 
  VII, 
  lona 
  VI, 
  Manumuskin 
  VI, 
  VIII, 
  IX 
  (Dke). 
  

  

  M. 
  vesta 
  Cress. 
  Milltown 
  VII, 
  Lakehurst 
  VIII 
  (Coll); 
  Malaga 
  IX, 
  (Hk) 
  ; 
  

   DaCosta 
  VIII, 
  Brown's 
  Mills 
  VI, 
  lona 
  VI, 
  Manumuskin 
  VI, 
  IX 
  (Dke). 
  

  

  M. 
  rugulosa 
  Fox. 
  South 
  Jersey, 
  not 
  rare 
  (Fox); 
  the 
  type 
  locality. 
  

  

  M. 
  cariniceps 
  Fox. 
  "New 
  Jersey"; 
  the 
  type 
  locality; 
  DaCosta 
  VII, 
  20 
  

   (Dke); 
  Farmingdale 
  VII, 
  14 
  (Jn). 
  

  

  PHOTOPSIS 
  Blake. 
  

   M. 
  pennsylvanica 
  Lap. 
  Camden 
  Co. 
  IX, 
  29 
  (Fox). 
  

  

  M. 
  scseva 
  Blake. 
  Riverton 
  VI, 
  17 
  ( 
  Jn) 
  ; 
  reared 
  from 
  cocoons 
  of 
  "Try- 
  

   poxylon 
  albitarsis," 
  by 
  A. 
  B. 
  Champlain 
  (Vk). 
  

  

  PHOTOMORPHUS 
  Vier. 
  

   M. 
  Johnson! 
  Vier. 
  Riverton 
  VII, 
  7 
  (Jn) 
  ; 
  the 
  type 
  locality. 
  

  

  