124 SUBFAMILY IX. OTIORHYNCHIN^E. 



XXI. PANTOMORUS Schonh., 1840. (Gr., "a great fool.") 



Pierce, following Champion, has combined the genera Arami- 

 gus and Pliaceplwlis Horn with Pantomorus Schonh., which has 

 priority. Onr species have the beak short and stout; cheeks 

 strongly emarginate; eyes oval, prominent; scutelliim small or 

 indistinct; inner wings absent; front femora stouter than the 

 others, their tibia? denticulate within and niucronate at tip. To 

 the genera combined as above mentioned belong ten nominal 

 species from the United States, only three of which are recorded 

 from our territory. 



KEY TO EASTERN SPECIES OF PANTOMORUS. 



a. Hind tibiae with at most a double row of spines at tip; second joint 



of funicle twice as long as first. 

 &. Surface densely scaly; teeth on inner side of front tibiae minute. 



160. TESSELLATUS. 



bb. Surface moderately scaly; teeth of front tibiae larger, very distinct. 



161. FULLERI. 



aa. Hind tibiae with an oval scaly disc at tip; thorax obliquely truncate; 

 front and middle tibiae denticulate; second joint of funicle subequal 

 to first; elytra twice as long as wide. 162. CANDIDUS. 



160 (8321). PANTOMORUS TESSELLATUS Say, 1824, 318; ibid. II, 178. 



Oblong-oval. Above densely clothed with grayish and brownish scales, 

 those on thorax usually so arranged as to form a narrow pale line on the 

 sides and a broader one each side of a wide median brownish space; 

 elytra brownish with small paler mottlings each side of suture, a pale line 

 on each humerus and another each side of the tips; antennae and tarsi 

 reddish-brown. Head and beak as long as thorax, sparsely punctured. Tho- 

 rax subcylindrical, a little broader than long, sides feebly curved, apex and 

 base truncate, disc finely punctate. Elytra oval, somewhat narrowed near 

 tips; humeri rectangular, slightly projecting forward; disc convex, striae 

 fine, not closely punctured; intervals flat, bearing numerous, very short, 

 inclined hairs. Under surface and femora densely scaly. Length 5 7.5 mm. 



Vigo County, Ind., scarce; June 19. Four specimens taken 

 from the leaves of iron-weed, Vernonia fasciculata Michx. They 

 are apparently of the variety pallidns Horn in which the scales 

 of upper surface are "pale greenish white with barely perceptible 

 darker spaces arranged as in the typical variety." Kanges from 

 southwestern Indiana and southern Illinois west and southwest 

 to Nebraska and New Mexico. Recorded as attacking the foliage 

 of the sweet potato. 



161 (8322). PANTOMORUS FULLERI Horn, 1876, 94. 



Oblong-oval. Dark brown, rather sparsely clothed with gray or pale 



