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Two species of this genus were sent many years ago to Dr. Sharp as from 

 " Northern Sonora " by the late H. K. Morrison. They had not been seen by me 

 when our enumeration of the " Smicrony chides " was published, and are apparently 

 referable to S. fulvus, Lee, and S. silaceus, Casey. An additional form from Nicaragua 

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Oblong-ovate, piceous ; densely clothed with large, broad, rounded, imbricate, pale brown scales (which have 

 a cupreous lustre when viewed in certain lights), with curled, stout, decumbent, white setae intermixed 

 (fig. 5 b) ; the scales on the under surface also large, rounded, and whitish. Rostrum curved, rather 

 stout, a little longer than the head and prothorax. united, closely punctate. Prothorax transverse, 

 rounded at the sides, closely punctate. Elytra much wider than the prothorax, moderately long, 

 subparallel at the base ; narrowly punctate-striate, the interstices broad, flat, punctulate, each with 

 about two rows of large scales. Tarsal claws equal in length. 



Length 2A-2J, breadth 1 T ^ millim. 



Hob. Nicaragua, Lago cle Nicaragua (Solari). 







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TERIRES (p. 138). 



A second species is provisionally added to this genus, differing ft 

 mger and comparatively slender rostrum and the bisinuate base o1 

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Oblong-ovate, narrow, feebly shining, rufo-testaceous, the eyes black ; thickly clothed with fine, decumbent, 

 hair-like, pallid scales, the elytra! interstices each with a regular row of closely placed coarser, 

 decumbent setiform scales. Head closely punctate; eyes large, strongly transverse coarsely facetted ; 

 rostrum cylindrical, curved, slender, as long as the head and prothorax very fine y punctate, smooth 

 along the median line, the antenna inserted at the middle. Prothorax much broader than long, obhquely 

 narrowed anteriorly, the sides parallel at the base, the latter feebly Insinuate; closely, very finely punctate. 



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