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DistTRIBUTION: Present records indicate that S. seriatus may be 
found in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley regions of California. 
The following specimens were examined: 
CALIFORNIA: CONTRA COSTA Co.: July (CAS). rresNo co.: Fresno, April 19 
(USNM). 1nyo co.: Bishop, June 11 (CAS). KERN co.: Tehachapi (USNM). Los 
ANGELES Co.: Pasadena, April 6, May 28 (CAS). MapERA co.: Bass Lake, July 7-9 
(CAS). SACRAMENTO co.: Davis, May 13 (USNM).sSAN BERNARDINO Co.: Colton 
(USNM). roto co.: Woodland, May 13 (USNM). “‘S. Calif.,’”? (CM). 
Total specimens examined: 96. 
Smicronyx apionides Casey 
Fiaures 59, 108 
Smicronyx apionides Casey, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 6, p. 405, 1892. 
Lectotype, here designated: Male, Asheville, North Carolina, USNM 36713 
(T. L. Casey collection). 
Description: Rostra of both sexes black, fairly stout, strongly 
curved, fairly smooth, finely punctate at sides; surface not shining; 
longer and less strongly tapered in female; remotely squamose (scales 
narrow) behind antennal insertions. Head black, finely alutaceous, 
without a frontal patch of scales. Antennae black to piceous, club 
rather elongate ovate. Prothorax black, very broadly rounded at the 
sides, only slightly narrowed at apex; punctures deep, closely spaced; 
interspaces interrupted and raised, giving surface a strongly pebbled 
appearance; prosternum shallowly concave, antecoxal ridges rather 
poorly defined; scales very sparse, mostly narrow and pointed but a 
few ovate; all scales silvery white and easily abraded. 
Elytra black, each interval bearing a row of narrow silvery white 
scales and a few silvery white ovate scales condensed into scattered 
patches; base of third interval having two condensed rows of broad 
scales for a short distance. Scales of the venter sparsely distributed, 
except on prosternum and metepisternum on which they are broader 
and closely spaced. Femora stout, black, moderately clavate, scales 
elongate, silvery white and sparsely distributed. Tibiae black, bear- 
ing a few widely spaced rows of linear whitish scales. Tarsi piceous, 
third segment distinctly broader than second, the fourth segment 
extending only slightly past end of third; claws small, connate for 
approximately half their length, almost parallel. Internal sac of male 
genitalia covered with rather broad spines; spiculum gastrale curved, 
but not hooked at the anterior end (fig. 59). 
MeasurEMENTS: The following measurements were taken from 1 
male and 4 females from Pittsburgh, Pa. (CM), 1 male from Rosslyn, 
Va. (USNM), 1 male from Orange, Conn. (USNM), 1 female from 
