418 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 45. 



This beautiful weevil was formerly considered by Mr. E. A. 

 Schwarz and the writer as a variant of elegans. When the writer 

 quoted Doctor Chittenden's manuscript name in print he was under 

 the distinct impression that it had been published, otherwise he would 

 not have used it. Since Mr. Champion has published a colored illus- 

 tration and a brief statement concerning its characters the species 

 may be credited to him. Of the six specimens of Doctor Chittenden's 

 typical material before the writer in 1909 one was presented by the 

 United States National Museum to Mr. Champion and this was fig- 

 ured. The series in the United States National Museum bears the 

 type number 9756. It is very regrettable that this confusion has 

 arisen. Doctor Chittenden's description unfortunately comes too 

 late to give him the credit that should belong to him for discovering 

 the species. 



In making the present study the conclusion had already been 

 reached that viridis was sufficiently distinct to be given specific rank 

 and it was so placed in the present manuscript when Mr. Champion's 

 notes came to hand. 



The characters given in the table will assist in differentiating it 

 from elegans, but the following are also of value: nasal plate small, 

 triangular, emarginate, and somewhat obscured by the long hairs 

 surrounding it; mandibles squamose; ventral tubercles on the second 

 segment of the male merely granulations. 



PANTOMORUS (PHACEPHOLIS) NEBRASKENSIS, new species. 



Described from a single specimen from Lincoln, Nebraska (Wick- 

 ham). 



Length 6 mm., width 2.3 mm. Elongate, of the form oi fuUeri, 

 reddish, densely covered with light brownish scales and sparsely with 

 erect squamiform setae. Head and beak nearly as long as prothorax; 

 head hardly constricted behind the eyes; densely covered with pale 

 round, striate scales and white squamose setae; nasal plate very 

 smaU strongly crescentiform, behind which is a large squamose, 

 depressed ogival area; median line deeply, and sharply sulcate to 

 apex of depressed area. Eyes evenly convex. Antennae with scape 

 surpassing the eyes; funicular joints all longer than wide, the second 

 joint longer than the first and longer than the two following. Pro- 

 thorax slightly wider than long, apically convex, basally sinuate, 

 laterally convex; apex obliquely truncate; disk moderately convex, 

 medially sulcate, densely squamose; scales arranged in longitudinal 

 fasciae of dark and light brown, the middle fascia brown. Elytra 

 oval, sides feebly arcuate, surface striate, strial punctures close, 

 squamigerous ; intervals densely squamose, sparsely setose; under- 

 sides not so densely squamose. Anterior tibiae moderately strongly 

 denticulate; median tibiae not denticulate. 



Type.— Ceit. No. 14650, U.S.Nat.Mus. 



