30 MISC. PUBLICATION 341, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
“Pantomorus viridis Champion’, Dalla Torre, Emden, and Emden, Coleopter- 
orum Catalogus, pt. 147, p. 29, 1936. 
Length 5-7.8 mm. Stout, elytra usually rounded laterally; elytra basally 
and pronotum strongly convex in profile; prothorax rather strongly narrowed 
basally. Scales metallic, those on elytra and pronotum green, most of those 
elsewhere paler and, especially on legs, more or less strongly pinkish or coppery ; 
scales denser and paler green in an inconspicuous vitta opposite eye on prono- 
tum; scales on lateral interval of elytron forming a pale, slightly pinkish vitta 
which is usually evanescent near base; elytral setae stiff, rather short. 
Head more or less distinctly narrowed behind eyes, especially in male, eye 
rounded to slightly elliptical, strongly convex, usually a little more convex in 
male than in female; rostrum above subplanate to broadly impressed between 
the feeble to moderately strong latero-marginal carinae; scape slightly to dis- 
tinctly exceeding eye, funicular segment 2 considerably longer than 1, occasion- 
ally nearly twice as long. Prothorax with basal margin distinctly angulate 
opposite elytral humerus; pronotum rugo-punctate to rugo-verrucose, median 
groove narrow to obsolete, basal margin feebly bisinuate, basal groove distinct, 
basal angles slightly prominent, scales not entirely covering surface and often 
forming clusters on the elevations. Scutellum small to obsolescent. Elytral in- 
tervals subplanate to slightly convex, each with three or four confused rows of 
setae; scales small, not overlapping, usually appearing convex. Intercoxal 
piece of abdomen about half as wide as a hind coxa; abdominal sternite 2 
of male usually with two or three denticles, and sometimes a few minute denti- 
culations, all of them occasionally nearly or quite absent; sternite 5 of male 
a trifle longer than 1; fore tibia with distinct denticulations, middle tibia often, 
the hind tibia rarely, with a few denticulations. 
Type locality —Texas (San Antonio) ; 23 specimens, male and fe- 
male, collected in May and June. 
Distribution —Texas (Kerrville, one male; Sabinal, two females) ; 
Mexico. Both of the Sabinal specimens were collected June 3, 1910; 
one has shorter and stouter elytral setae than the other. 
Lectotype, hereby designated——Female, May 21, labeled “cotype 
9756,” in United States National Museum. This is one of Chitten- 
den’s original specimens bearing his manuscript name viridis. 
The name vzridis has at one time or another been credited to Chit- 
tenden, to Champion, and to Sharp and Champion, but it should be 
credited to Pierce on the basis of his inadvertent published allusion 
to viridis as a bright-green form of elegans. 
According to Chittenden, 1912, p. 107, viridis was reported as in- 
jurious to peach, plum, and pear at the type locality. The two 
Sabinal specimens are labeled “attacking cotton.” 
A male from Tallulah, La., the only Louisiana specimen of Pha- 
cepholis at hand, seems about midway between viridis and pallidulus. 
It resembles viridis in color, in the structure of head and eye, and 
in the distinct convexity of the pronotum and elytra; it 1s more like 
pallidulus in having funicular segments 1 and 2 subequal, and in 
the rather short fifth abdominal sternite, the latter feature, however, 
being of doubtful significance. It is provisionally referred to viridis. 
A female in the U. S. National Museum collection, without locality 
label but undoubtedly from Mexico, is one of the specimens studied 
by Champion and referred by him to viridis. It is not quite so stout 
and with the elytra basally not so strongly declivous as in typical 
viridis, but in other respects seems inseparable. 
Two small males from San Antonio are entirely gray and have 
almost exactly the habitus of certain males of pallidulus, but they are 
here referred to viridis because of the relatively long second funicular 
segment, the presence of distinct denticles on abdominal sternite 2, 
and the strong convexity of the pronotum. 
