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tychoides. In addition, the rostrum is gibbous at the base in S. 
tychoides, but not so in S. sculpticollis. 
DistriBputTion: Records taken from the material examined indicate 
that S. tychoides occurs on the Atlantic Coastal Plain, on the Gulf 
coastal plain, in the Appalachian highlands, and in the Jowa-Nebraska 
portion of the central lowlands. The specimens examined are as 
follows: 
GEORGIA: GLYNN Co.: St. Simons Island, July 19 (CAS). 
TowWA: DICKINSON co.: Lake Okoboji, July 1 (USNM). 
MARYLAND: MONTGOMERY Co.: Great Falls, July 2 (USNM). 
NEBRASKA: SAUNDERS Co.: Cedar Bluffs (USNM). 
NrEw JERSEY: CAMDEN Co.: Dee. (CAS). 
New York: KINGS co.: New Lots, July 10 (AMNH). RockLaNp co.: Ramapo 
Mountains (AMNH, CAS). 
NortH CAROLINA: BUNCOMBE Co.: Valley of Black Mountains, June 20-23 
(AMNH). 
ONTARIO: CARLETON Co.: Dow’s Swamp, Ottawa, Aug. 7 (CNC). 
TEXAS: CAMERON CO.: Brownsville, June 26 (USNM). vicrorra co.: Victoria, 
Aug. 22 (USNM). 
Total specimens examined: 18. 
Smicronyx sculpticollis Casey 
Ficurss 1-3, 31, 54, 105 
Smicronyx sculpticollis Casey, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 6, p. 403, 1892. 
Lectotype, here designated: Male, ‘“‘Va,’’? USNM 36711 (T. L. Casey collec- 
tion). 
eee sagittatus Casey, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 6, p. 402, 1892. 
New synonymy. Type: Male, Rhode Island, USNM 36710 (T. L. Casey 
collection). 
Smicronyx gibbirostris Casey, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 6, p. 407, 1892. 
New synonymy. Type: Male, Milford, Delaware, USNM 36712 (T. L. 
Casey collection). 
Description: Rostra of both sexes piceous, moderately curved, 
sparsely punctate, interspaces finely alutaceous; sparsely squamose, 
except before antennal insertions in female. Head black to piceous, 
not squamose. Antennae rufopiceous to ferruginous throughout. 
Prothorax black, strongly rounded at sides, strongly narrowed and 
slightly constricted behind apex; closely and deeply punctured, 
giving surface a roughly sculptured appearance; disk thinly covered 
with linear, yellowish brown scales, oriented toward midline; pro- 
sternum deeply emarginate, moderately concave. 
Elytra ferruginous, except for a dark line down the median suture; 
scales elongate elliptical, yellow to yellowish white, condensed at bases 
of third intervals and in several irregular, indefinite transverse bands. 
Underside of thorax and abdomen thinly covered with small, elliptical 
white to yellow scales. Legs entirely ferruginous, except for black 
bases of femora. Femora moderately clavate, covered with elongate 
