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elytra basally and of pronotum, frequent obsolescence of median 
pronotal groove, and by having funicular segments 1 and 2 subequal. 
This character combination largely fails in several specimens which 
approach the variety elegans in some features and vzrdis in others. 
Most of the males resemble wi77dis in shape and in the rather strong 
convexity of the pronotum and elytra, but usually lack the abdominal 
denticles of that variety. The females have, in common with viridis, 
the basal narrowing of the prothorax, but resemble the variety e/egans 
in the feeble convexity of the pronotum and elytra. The tendency to- 
ward the development of an elytral color pattern is rather distinctive, 
especially in the female. On the average, the median lobe of the male 
appears to be a little more broadly rounded apically than in elegans 
proper. 
(10) PANTOMORUS (PHACEPHOLIS) ELEGANS EXIMIUS, new variety 
(Hiss AS 2 Sea eh) 
Pantomorus elegans Champion (not Horn), Biologia Centralia-Americana, vy. 4, 
pt. 3; pp. 333, 336, 387, 1911. 
Phacepholis elegans Pierce (part) (not Horn), U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc. 37: 361, 
1909. . 
Length 7-8.5 mm. Stouter than variety elegans, slenderer than viridis. Elytra 
basally and pronotum moderately convex in profile, prothorax narrowed basally. 
Scales iridescent to metallic, green on elytra and pronotum, elsewhere paler, and 
many of them, especially on legs, with a distinct pinkish luster, denser and a 
little paler green in an inconspicuous vitta opposite eye on side of pronotum, scales 
on lateral interval of elytron forming a pale-pinkish vitta which is usually 
evanescent near base; elytral setae stiff, rather short. 
Head slightly or not constricted behind eyes; eye elliptical, more strongly so in 
male, feebly to moderately prominent; rostrum above with coarse, latero-marginal 
carinae, the intercarinal surface impressed; scape slightly to considerably ex- 
ceeding eye, funicular segment 1 three-fourths to four-fifths as long as 2. Pro- 
thorax with basal margin in side view rather strongly angulate opposite elytral 
humerus; pronotum feebly grooved medially, rugo-verrucose to coarsely punctate, 
the setae entirely and the scales mostly located on the elevations, the scales in 
general not forming radial clusters, basal margin feebly to moderately bisinuate, 
basal groove distinct, basal angles more or less projecting. Scutellum obso- 
lescent. Elytral intervals slightly convex, each with three or four irregular rows 
of setae; scales small, rounded, and crowded but in general not overlapping. 
Abdomen beneath with vestiture sparser and finer medially, especially on the 
three apical sternites; intercoxal piece slightly more than half as wide as a 
hind coxa; sternite 5 of male a trifle longer than 1, subtruncate at apex, sternite 
2 of male with two to four larger and several small to minute denticulations; 
sternite 5 of female broad, narrowly subtruncate at apex. Fore tibia usually 
with 8 to 10 denticulations, middle tibia with a few smaller denticulations, hind 
tibia with a few minute ones in male, not denticulate in female. Sides of male 
median lobe feebly emarginate toward apex (fig. 4, L). 
Type locality —Texas (San Diego); three males and ‘five females. 
Seven of these specimens, including the type, were collected by E. A. 
Schwarz on May 3, 6, 16, and 24, probably in 1895; the other specimen, 
by W. D. Pierce in 1912. 
Type.—Female, May 16, Cat. No. 52802, United States National 
Museum. 
The emargination of the sides of the male median lobe has not been 
observed in any other of the varieties of elegans; and may prove to be 
of taxonomic value. However, a single male from Cotulla, Tex., with 
setose corbel plate, has a somewhat differently shaped median lobe, 
without lateral emargination, and with the median orifice a little more 
basad in location. In this specimen the convexity of the eyes and the 
narrowing of the head behind the eyes are about as in wi7idis, but the 
