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1886. Sphoerophthalma rubriceps Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. 
Soc., X3: 216, $. 
1897. Mutilla rubriceps Dalle Torre, Cat. Hymen., 8: 
79,$. 
1900. Mutilla rubriceps Fox, Ent. News, 11 : 401, $ . 
1903. Ephuta ( Ephuta ) rubriceps Andre, Gen. Ins., 1 (fasc. 
11): 63, $ . 
Type: 9, Cuba, in Gundlach collection, Instituto de Se- 
gunda Ensenanza de la Habana, Obispo street, Havana, Cuba. 
Known only from the type specimen. This species has 
always been placed with the group of species which now form 
the genus Dasymutilla Ashmead. It seems perfectly evident from 
Cresson’s description of the first abdominal segment that it really 
belongs to the genus Ephuta. From the original description it 
appears to be very closely related to cubensis Blake. 
7. Ephuta cubensis (Blake). 
1871. Mutilla cubensis Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 
3: 231, 9. 
1886. Mutilla cubensis Blake, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 
13: 202, 9 . 
1897. Mutilla cubensis Dalle Torre, Cat. Hymen., 8: 29, 
9. 
1900. Mutilla cubensis Fox, Ent. News, 11: 401, 9 . 
1903. Rhoptromutilla cubensis Andre, Gen. Ins., 1 (fasc. 11) : 
44, 9. 
Type : 9 , Cuba, in collection of American Entomological 
Society of Philadelphia. 
Known only from the type specimen. 
8. Ephuta festata n. sp. 
Female. Very dark ferruginous, deeply, foveately punctate; 
