Phacepholis viridis (Champion 1911)

Hab.NORTH AMERICA, San Antonio, Texas².—MEXICO, Guanajuato³(Dugès, in U. S. Nat. Mus.; Sallé), “Sierra de Durango” (Höge, in coll. Solari).>

We have received from the U. S. National Museum a male of Phacepholis elegans, Horn (with a transverse series of five small tubercles on the second ventral segment and the intermediate tibiæ strongly unguiculate), from San Diego, Texas, and a female “co-type

” of P. viridis, Chittenden, labelled San Antonio, Texas. According to Pierce², these insects are synonymous; but in this I cannot agree with him, the female (viridis) having much more prominent eyes than the male (elegans) and the elytra very convex and acuminate-ovate in shape. I have seen three other females, from Mexico, agreeing exactly with the one from San Antonio; the male will doubtless prove to be nearly related to that of P. elegans. The last-mentioned insect is said to live on cotton (Gossypium).