2s MISC. PUBLICATION 341, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
Pantomorus (Phacepholis) metallicus Pierce, U. S. Natl. Mus. Proce. 45: 417, 
419, 1913. (New synonymy.) 
Length 5-82 mm. Usually green, sometimes grayish green, bluish green, or 
pinkish tan, rarely gray, the scales on head and rostrum often paler than 
elsewhere on dorsum, those beneath and on legs often pinkish coppery; pro- 
notum with or without a dark or coppery lateral vitta; elytron usually nearly or 
quite unicolorous, even the pale vitta on lateral interval being indistinct on 
most specimens. 
Head feebly or not constricted behind eyes; eyes feebly to moderately 
prominent, subrotundate to elliptical; rostrum above usually subplanate be- 
tween the feeble or obsolescent latero-marginal carinae in female, often more 
or less impressed between rather strong carinae in male; scape slightly ex- 
ceeding eyes, funicular segment 2 longer than 1. Prothorax relatively longer 
than in the other three varieties, sometimes almost as long as wide, though 
usually plainly wider than long; pronotum usually feebly convex longitudinally, 
median groove obsolete to fairly well defined, sculpture usually rugo-verrucose, 
the scales often forming radial clusters on the tubercles, basal margin sub- 
truncate to feebly bisinuate, basal groove usually distinct, basal angles 
slightly, obliquely prominent. Elytra scarcely to moderately convex in profile 
basally, intervals usually slightly convex and each with about three confused 
rows of erect setae, those on interval 1. a little longer than elsewhere. Abdomi- 
nal sternite 5 of female usually longer than in pallidulus; sternite 2 of male 
without denticles but often with a transverse, curved ridge; male usually 
smaller and slenderer than female, eye a little more elongate and more convex, 
the rostral carinae stronger and sometimes rather distinctly converging 
anteriorly. 
Type locality.—Of elegans, Kansas to Texas; of metallicus, Kansas 
(Onaga). 
Restricted type locality.—Texas. 
Distribution.—California; Nevada (Pioche) ; Colorado; South Da- 
kota (Fort Thompson) ; Nebraska (Lincoln) ; Kansas (Riley County, 
Topeka, Douglas County, Baldwin, City, Wichita) ; lowa; Oklahoma 
(Oklahoma City) ; Arkansas; Texas (Wichita Falls, Belknap, Dallas, 
Mexia, Devalle, Lavaca County, Victoria). 
Lectotype-—The second specimen of e/egans in the Horn collec- 
tion at the Philadelphia Academy. Type of metallicus, female, No. 
14651 in United States National Museum. 
Horn described elegans from “Kansas to Texas,” and it would 
be preferable to select an example from Kansas as lectotype, because 
the population from, this State is more homogeneous and _ better 
characterized, whereas many of the specimens from Texas show vari- 
ous intergrading characteristics. Unfortunately the series of elegans 
in the Horn collection now contains no specimen labeled Kansas. 
There are several examples from Kansas in the Ulke collection at 
Pittsburgh, and one in the Leconte collection at Cambridge, and 
some of these doubtless were studied by Horn, just which ones, 
however, being uncertain. The first specimen of elegans in the 
Horn collection is from Texas, bears Horn’s longhand name label, 
and also a subsequently attached lectotype label (No. 2635) (unpub- 
lished) ; but this specimen is much stouter and with a less convex 
eye than is normal. The second specimen, also from Texas and 
marked as being from Horn’s original series, is a female, 7 mm. long, 
very pale greenish tan above, and agreeing in all essentials with 
elegans sens. str. from farther north. This specimen is hereby 
designated lectotype of elegans elegans (Horn). 
About 150 specimens were examined. The relatively few that are 
dated were collected in April, May, June, and July; the earlier 
dates in general are on the more southern specimens. 
