SMICRONYX WEEVILS—ANDERSON Die 
TEXAS: BEXAR Co.: San Antonio, May 14, June 3 (USNM). BowiE co.: New 
Boston, June 5, Aug. 29 and 30 (USNM). cameron co.: Brownsville, Feb. 21, 
March 5 and 23, April 18, June, July (USNM); Rio Hondo, March 19 (USNM). 
HARRIS Co.: Harrisburg, July 31 (CAS); Seabrook, Aug. 2 and 8(CAS). HIDALGO 
co.: Mercedes, Feb., March 14 and 15 (USNM). Howarp co.: Big Springs 
(CAS, CNC, USNM). 1A SALLE co.: Cotulla, March 28, April 15 (USNM). 
MATAGORDA co.: W. Palacios, Aug. 1 (USNM). Maverick co.: Eagle Pass, 
March 30 (USNM). pao prnTo co.: Mineral Wells, June 9 (USNM). PrREsrD10 
co.: Presidio, March 21, April 30 (USNM). rervaro co.: Lake Refugio, Aug. 28 
(USNM). RoBpEeRTson co.: Calvert May 18 (USNM). Travis co.: Austin, 
April 28 (USNM). vrerorra co.: Victoria, June 29, Sept. 10, Oct. 21 (USNM). 
WALKER Co.: Riverside, June 21, Aug. 24 (USNM). ‘‘Tex.” (AMNH, CNHM, 
USNM). 
Total specimens examined: 300. 
Smicronyx centralis (Dietz), new combination 
Figures 75, 123 
Pachyphanes centralis Dietz, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 21, p. 118, 1894. 
Type: Male, ‘‘Tex.,’”” MCZ 1883 (Dietz collection). 
Pachyphanes lateralis Dietz, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 21, pp. 118, 119, 1894. 
Type: Female, Texas, CM (Ulke collection). 
Description: Rostra of both sexes black, moderately stout, punc- 
tate from base to apex; squamose behind the antennal insertion; 
longer, more tapered and less roughly punctate in female. Head 
black to piceous, front sparsely squamose. Antennae piceous, second 
funicular segment much longer than third. Prothorax black, punc- 
tures of disk transversely oval, interspaces raised as rugae which run 
laterally from midline; scales white, except brown scales of discal 
macula, which is rounded and covers most of the disk; prosternum 
shallowly emarginate, moderately concave. 
Elytra black to piceous; macula regularly shield shaped, extending 
from the base to slightly behind the middle; scales outside macula 
white, with a scattering of very light brown scales. Ventral surface 
of the thorax and abdomen covered with broadly ovate white scales. 
Femora clavate, reddish brown, thinly covered with elongate-ovate 
white scales. Tibiae reddish brown, slightly expanded at apices. 
Tarsi piceous, first three segments short and broad; claws small, con- 
nate forslightly more than half their length, slightly divergent. Median 
lobe of male genitalia slightly narrower at the apex than at the base, 
spiculum gastrale strongly hooked at the anterior end (fig. 75). Stem 
of the spiculum ventrale of the female genitalia slightly expanded at 
anterior end (fig. 123). 
Measurements: The following measurements were taken from 2 
males from New Boston, Tex. (USNM), 1 male from “Tex.” 
(USNM), 1 male from ‘“‘Col.’”? (AMNH), 1 male from Torrance Co., 
