OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XIV, 1912. 107 



Pantomorus viridis Sharp and Champion. 



Phacepholis viridis Chittenden (MSS), Pierce, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. XXXVII, p. 361, 1909. 

 Pantomorus viridis Chittenden, Sharp and Champion, Biol. Centrali- 



Americana, vol. IV, pt. 3, p. 336, figs. 22, 23, December, 1911. 

 Female. Robust pyriform with elytra strongly convex; elytra and 

 thorax densely coated with brilliant metallic green scales, the thorax 

 more sparsely covered and with the scales mostly larger and with a bluish 

 cast. Head broad, eyes nearly round and prominent. Thorax nearly as 

 long as wide, sides strongly arcuate. Head, lower surface and legs coated 

 with pale pinkish scales. First joint of funicle of antenna about half as 

 long as second, second longer than next three together. 



Male. Body much narrower. First funicular joint about one-third as 

 long as second. 



Length, 5.5 to H.5 mm.; width, 2.5 (male) to 3.4 mm. 



Habitat: San Antonio, Texas (type locality), where it was 

 reported injurious to peach, plum, and pear, May 21, 1900; 

 Guanajuato and "Sierra de Durango," Mexico (Champion). 



Type: No. 9756, U. S. National Museum. 



The wider head, rounded, prominent eyes and antennal 

 structure distinguish this species from elegans. A fairly 

 large series of each shows such variability that other constant 

 structural characters cannot be readily seen. The colors 

 are very nearly constant in the present species and the basal 

 margin of the thorax (which varies in length) is usually dis- 

 tinctly reflexed. It is larger than elegans and the female 

 is much more robust than our other species. In elegans the 

 second joint of the funicle is usually shorter than the next 

 three together. 



Finally, it should be added that it is not nearly related to 

 elegans, but is similarly colored. 



RECORD OF THE FINDING OF A TRUE QUEEN OF TERMES 



FLAVIPES KOL. 



BY THOMAS E. SNYDER, 

 Bureau of Entotnologv, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



(Plate ill.) 



While investigating damage by wood-boring insects to 

 the bases of telegraph and telephone poles, a true fertilized 

 queen of the species Tcrnics flaripes Kol. was found in the 

 butt of a chestnut telegraph pole on August 12, 1910. The 

 pole was standing on the right of way of the Seaboard Air 

 Line R. R. about 3* miles southwest of Portsmouth, Virginia. 

 The soil was sandy and dry near the surface. 



The true queen (pi. in, a) when found was inactive in a 

 gallery no wider than her abdomen, probably a burrow of 



