ANOPLUS. 189 



Anoplus, 



A, Interstices on elytra punctured in wrinkles. 



Ovate. Black, shiny, scantily covered with short whitish 

 hairs, scutellum and breast with closer grayish pubescence ; 

 scape of antennae yellow-brown. Thorax closely and 

 strongly punctured, with a line, somewhat raised central 

 line ; elytra with deep punctured striae, interstices punc- 

 tured in wrinkles. L. 1 1. Common. 



A. plo.ntaris, Naez. 



JB, Interstices on elytra with tolerably regular rows of 

 punctures. 



Similar to A. plantaris but larger, thorax with coarser 

 punctures, partly confluent, striae on elytra less deep, inter- 

 stices Ijroader, flat, each with a tolerably regular row of 

 fine punctures bearing short, white bristles, inclined back- 

 ward. Eare. A. roboris, Suffr. 



Smicronyx, 



A, Length 1 line. 



a» Thorax shallowly punctured. 



Oblong-ovate. Black ; base of antennae red-yellow ; 

 covered with whitish scales, on upper-side scantily, in 

 spots, on under-side closely. Thorax convex, shiny, shal- 

 lowly punctured, scarcely constricted in front ; elytra with 

 striae distinct but obsoletely and diffusely punctured, 

 interstices flat, punctured. L. 1 1. Scarce. 



S. jungermanniae, Reich. 



Of S. cicur, Eeich I fail to find any description. 



b. Thorax distinctly punctured. 



Oblong-ovate, convex. Black ; under-side covered with 

 white scales, placed more closely at sides. Eostrum dis- 

 tinctly punctured, not shiny ; thorax distinctly and very 

 closely punctured, broadly constricted before apex, with an 

 indistinct central ridge ; elytra with fine, diftusely punc- 

 tured striae, shoulders raised, nearly angidar. L. 1 1. Eare. 



S. Beichi, Gyll. 

 a. Length f line. 



Deep black, shiny, upper-side sparingly, under-side and 

 legs closely covered with minute white scalelike hairs, 

 elytra a little variegated toward apex. Thorax with vario- 



