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They eat the leaves off the cotton and even eat it before it gets out 

 of the ground.' Evidently the beetles were so destructive that the 

 cotton had to be replanted, for on May 25, he writes again as fol- 

 lows : ' I would have written you before but was waiting to see what 

 the insects would do to our second planting. The cotton is now up and 

 I don 't see any sign of them yet. ' 



"Nothing more was ever heard regarding the beetles and they 

 probably did not again appear in numbers sufficient to attract atten- 

 tion. The outbreak is interesting however, especially since the species 

 has shown an ability and an inclination to become a serious pest and 

 might easily appear again over a larger area. ' ' 



^ Phacepholis Horn 



Table of Species 



1. Beak deeply and angulately emarginate at apex; ouly the anterior tibiae 



denticulate within. 



a. Antennae elongate; funicular joints elongate, the second much longer 



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

 thorax squarely truncate, wider than long; vestlture brilliant metallic 



green to bluish green above elegans Horn 



aa. Antennae not so elongate, funicular joints elongate, the second very 

 slightly longer than first if at all, and subequal to the two following; 

 prothorax slightly obliquely truncate, slightly wider than long; ves- 

 titure white to grayish green pallida n. sp. 



2. Bealv emarginate at apex but not deeply so; antennal funicular joints elon- 



gate, the second subequal to the first or but slightly longer; prothorax 

 obliquely truncate; anterior and middle tibiae denticulate within. 



b. Elongate; anterior tibiae internally strongly serrulate dentate; second 



abdominal segment a little shorter than the next two combined; 



vestiture white to light ochreous Candida. Horn 



bb. Stout; anterior tibiae with a very few isolated elongate teeth; second 

 abdominal segment longer than the two following; vestiture 

 brownish ohscura Horn 



PhacepJiolis elegans Horn. I have specimens which seem in every 

 way typical from San Antonio, Victoria, Kerrville, Edna and Cotulla, 

 Texas, all southwestern points in the chaparral country. Specimens 

 were taken on cotton at Victoria and San Antonio. 



PhacepJiolis pallida n. sp. 



Length 4.5-6 mm. Body oval, robust, black but densely clothed with iri- 

 descent white to light green scales, and slight erect setae, the general appear- 

 ance being gray to grayish green. Head and rostrum nearly as long as the 

 thorax; head not or very feebly constricted behind the eyes; densely covered 

 with rounded, striate white to iridescent pink scales and upright, elongate, 

 apically truncate, striate white scales; beak apically deeply emarginate; 



