PANTOMORUS OF AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO 29 
Even in the northern material there are occasional atypical speci- 
mens and in the series from Texas are a good many with the body 
stout, the prothorax narrowed basally, and with other divergencies, 
most of which are suggestive of pallidulus. In placing some of these 
apparent intergrades with elegans rather than with pallidulus, con- 
siderable weight has been given the fact that their elytra are nearly 
or quite unicolorous, the elytra of pallidulus showing a tendency 
toward variegation. Other fairly constant characters of elegans 
elegans by which it can often be recognized are the relatively slender 
body, often distinct pronotal verrucae, basally subparallel sides of 
the prothorax, feeble convexity of the pronotum and basal portions 
of the elytra, relatively long elytral setae, absence of denticles from 
abdominal sternite 2 of male, and the moderately long sternite 5 of 
female. The more northern range is characteristic also. 
The elytral setae vary greatly in length and coarseness, and are 
often more numerous on some intervals than on others. The setae in 
the serial punctures on the elytra vary from very slender to rather 
broad. The rostral carinae are occasionally well developed in the 
female. The average proportions of funicular segments 2 and 1 are 
about as 4 to 3. The pronotal verrucae and the accompanying radial 
clusters of scales vary from distinct to obsolescent but on the whole 
are better developed than in the southern varieties. The vestiture on 
the scutellum, if present, is sometimes prostrate, sometimes inclined. 
The scales are more or less iridescent or metallic on all specimens 
examined except on two gray females, one from Wichita Falls, Tex., 
the other from “Tex.” In the former the scales have a faint pinkish 
iridescence, but in the latter, which was included by Pierce in the 
type set of tewanus, the scales are without luster. 
Eight females from Brady, Tex., 6 to 7 mm. long, have a coppery 
lateral vitta on the pronotum and a pale or coppery vitta on elytral 
intervals 8 and 9 in the apical two-thirds, the prothorax narrowed 
basally, sternite 5 usually short, and in some other ways agree closely 
with pallidulus, but they are tentatively placed with the variety ele- 
gans largely because of the locality (north-central Texas). 
Among eight specimens from Victoria, Tex., labeled “on cotton”, 
are two or three which have the prothorax about as strongly nar- 
rowed basally as in pallidulus, but in most other respects their rela- 
tionship is evidently with the variety elegans. The average length 
in this series is distinctly less than in the Brady lot. 
There are also at hand 11 specimens labeled “Tex.”, of various 
sizes and shapes, some with the eyes much less convex than usual, 
others with the elytra basally and the pronotum more convex longi- 
tudinally, and 1 with funicular segments 1 and 2 subequal. 
The e/egans of Champion, not Horn (Biologia Centrali-Americana, 
v. 4, pt. 3, pp. 333, 336, 337, 1911) is eatmius. 
Pierce’s mefallicus is inseparable from elegans elegans. 
(8) PANTOMORUS (PHACEPHOLIS) ELEGANS var. VIRIDIS (Pierce) 
(igs of kG) 
“Phacepholis elegans Horn, green form viridis Chittenden’’, Pierce, U. S. Natl. 
Mus. Proc. 37: 361, 1909. 
“Pantomorus viridis Chittenden MS.”’, Champion, Biologia Centrali-Americana, 
Vv. 4; pt. 3, p: 336, tab. 15, fig. 23; 28a, 1911. 
“Pantomorus viridis Sharp and Champion’, Chittenden, Ent. Soc. Wash. Proce. 
14: 106-107, fig. 1, 1912. 
