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Average length about 4.5 mm ; median groove on pronotum obsolete ; spines 
on fore tibia relatively longer, usually four to six larger and two or 
three smaller ones (fig. 3, K); about 10-12 spinules in distal comb. 
(14) obscurus (Horn) (p. 38). 
(11) PANTOMORUS (PHACEPHOLIS) TEXANELLUS, new name 
Pantomorus (Phacepholis) texanus Pierce, U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc. 45: 417, 419, 
1913 (preoce. by (Artipus teranus Pierce 1911) =Pantomorus (Atrichonotus) 
taeniatulus (Berg) 1881). 
Female.—Length 7 mm. Gray, the pronotum with three broad, indefinite 
fuscous stripes, one median and one on each side, the rostrum and elytra with 
feeble, irregular, pale-brownish areas (apparently in part discolorations) ; scales 
dense, setae fine, stiff, erect, and rather short except on apical half of elytron, 
where they are longer. 
Rostrum above with latero-marginal carina indistinct beneath the scales; eye 
slightly elliptical, rather strongly convex ; scape barely exceeding eye. Prothorax 
a little wider than long (about 9 to 8), subparallel-sided in basal half, evenly 
narrowed apically; pronotum feebly convex longitudinally, sculpture largely 
hidden by scales but apparently somewhat rugose, median groove feeble and 
filled with seales, scales except in a few places not forming radial clusters, basal 
margin feebly bisinuate. Scutellum rather large, densely scaly. Conjoined elytra 
widest a little before middle, slightly rounded laterally, more abruptly so but 
hardly subangulate at humeri, scales slightly overlapping; intervals:slightly but 
plainly convex, interval 1 not prominent, even ones each with a subregular single 
row, odd ones each with a partly double row, of setae, some of the longer setae 
toward apex at least equal to the width of an interval; serial punctures each 
with a small, setalike scale. Abdominal sternite 5 broadly, feebly emarginate 
at apex; intercoxal piece narrower than a hind coxa (about 13 to 21); mete- 
pisternal suture visible throughout. Fore tibia with 6 or 7 teeth and a few 
denticles, middle tibia with several shorter teeth, hind tibia with a few minute 
denticles. 
Type locality (restricted ).—Texas. 
Type.—Female, No. 14652, in United States National Museum. 
Pierce referred two Texas females and one Kansas male to 
(texanus) = texanellus. These specimens represent three species, 
namely, tevanellus (type, female, Texas), elegans elegans (gray 
form, female, Texas), and candidus (male, Kansas). 
In addition to the type, the writer has seen two specimens which 
appear to belong to texvanellus. One of these, a male from Texas, is 
in the Horn collection at Philadelphia. It is dull grayish brown and 
closely resembles certain males of candidus, but differs in the finer 
elytral setae and the somewhat more convex eye; abdominal sternite 
2 has three or four denticles, and funicular segment 1 is to 2 as 5.5 
is to 9. The other specimen is a female bearing a yellow rectangular 
label, and incorrectly placed as obscuwrus in the Leconte collection at 
Cambridge. It has dark vittae on the pronotum, the elytron gray on 
the middle of the disk but with broad, dark area laterally; funicular 
seoment 1 is to 2 as 5 is to 8. The setae on the elytra are a little 
shorter than in Pierce’s type. 
Pantomorus texanellus resembles planitiatus in the fine elytral 
setae and in the subcircular and distinctly convex eye, but differs in 
the prothorax not being narrowed basally in the female, funicular 
segment 2 relatively much longer, and the elytral setae sparser and 
shorter ; it resembles candzdus in the elongation of funicular segment 
2, the shape of the prothorax in the female, and the arr angement of 
the elytral setae, but differs in having more convex eyes and finer 
elytral setae. 
