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than 1,200 adults, from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North 
Carolina, and California, all of which proved to be females. 
In some specimens the mandible has a fait, incompiete sulcus 
which, however, is hardly comparable with the structure found in 
Graphognathus. When the abdomen is detached the lateral margins, 
at least apically, are seen to be minutely, irregularly serrulate, a 
feature not observed in any other Pantomorus treated here. The 
prevailing color is sometimes subuniformly slaty gray, but usually 
is brownish. In most specimens the triangular piece between the 
hind margins of fore coxae is more or less completely fused with the 
postcoxal surface, but occasionally this piece is set off by a deep 
groove posteriorly. 
Pantomorus godmani is easy to recognize by the marked concavity 
on the rostrum between the distinct latero-marginal carinae, the 
prominent, obliquely truncate supports on the mandibles, the long 
scape, the sublateral, whitish patch on the elytron, and the absence of 
erect setae on the disk, but their presence on the alternate intervals on 
the declivity of the elytron. The spermatheca varies considerably in 
curvature and in the size and shape of the submedian hump. 
In American literature the generic name Avamigus was used for 
godmani from 1876 to about 1914, although as early as 1901 both 
Koebele and Chittenden alluded to its specific identity with the 
Hawaiian Pantomorus olindae Perkins. In 1910 Perkins pointed out 
that Aramigus apparently is not generically distinct from Panto- 
morus, and about 1915 the combination Pantomorus fulleri came into 
general use in North America. In 1922 Hustache announced the 
chief synonymy for the species and suggested that godmani might 
be a synonym of the South American Nauwpactus subvittatus Fair- 
maire and Germain; and in the same year Champion verified the 
synonymy given by Hustache. MNaupactus subvittatus F. and G., 
1861, was described in a paper now difficult to obtain (Coleoptera 
Chilensia, 4 L. Fairmaire et P. Germain, descripta, II Paris, 1861) 
and the short original description is therefore quoted below. 
Naupactus subvittatus.—Long. 7 a 10 mill.—Ovatus, convexus, fuscus, griseo 
caut flavo-farinosus, prothorace vittis 2 vagis, elytris vitta dorsali, sape inter- 
rupta, albidis, prothorace convexo, medio tenuiter sulcato, elytris ovoideis, con- 
vexis, basi prothorace haud latioribus, substriato-punctatis, interstitiis leviter 
‘convexis, pilosulis ; subtus cnm (sic) pedibus griseo-farinosus, antennis fuscis, 
griseo-squamosis. 
The presence of a dorsal white vitta on the elytron and of pilos- 
ity on the elytral intervals of subvittatus seems to eliminate all prob- 
ability that godmani is a synonym. The specific name subvittatus F. 
and G., 1861, is a homonym of subvittatus Boh., 1840, and has been 
changed to swbvittulus by Van Emden (Coleopterorum Catalogus, pt. 
147, p. 28, 1936). 
(5) PANTOMORUS (ASYNONYCHUS) TESSELLATUS (Say) 
(Figs. 4, A; 5, D) 
Liparus tessellatus Say, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (1) 3: 318, 1824. 
Thylacites (Strophosomus) tesselatus (Say), Descriptions of New Species of 
Curculionides of North America, etc., p. 9, 1831, New Harmony, Ind. 
Phyllobius sublineatus Dejean, Catalogue des Coléoptéres, ed. 3, p. 289, 1887. 
(Manuscript name.) 
