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West VIRGINIA: GREENBRIER CO.: White Sulphur Springs, July (CAS). 
MONONGAHELA CO.: Morgantown, Aug. (CAS). woop co.: Kanawha Station, 
July 20 (USNM). 
Total specimens examined: 168. 
Smicronyx squalidus Casey 
Ficures 87, 102 
Smicronyz squalidus Casey, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 6, pp. 407, 408, 1892. 
Lectotype, here designated: Female, Indiana, USNM 36717 (T.L. Casey 
collection). 
Smicronyx cinerascens Dietz, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 21, pp. 132, 133, 1894. 
New synonymy. Type: Female, Texas, Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia 2909 (Horn collection). 
Smicronyx morio Dietz, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 21, p. 133, 1894. New 
synonymy. Lectotype, here designated: Female, Pennsylvania, MCZ 1894 
(Dietz collection). 
Description: Rostra of both sexes piceous, moderately curved; 
thinly squamose behind antennal insertions; two dorsolateral carinae 
present from base to near apex in male, feeble, except above antennal 
insertions in female; more finely punctate, tapered, and smooth before 
antennal insertions in female than in male. Head piceous to reddish 
brown, thinly covered with narrow scales above base of rostrum. 
Antennae piceous, club rufopiceous, second funicular segment much 
longer than third. Prothorax black to piceous, shape and punctation 
as in group description; scales medium or pale yellowish brown (some 
nearly white), light scales in patches at sides or in a short median 
basal vitta. 
Elytra black to piceous; each interval covered with three to four 
rows of small, subquadrate scales, some white and in irregular broken 
transverse bands, the rest medium brown. Underside of thorax and 
abdomen black, covered with small, suborbicular, grayish white scales. 
Femora moderately clavate, black at bases, otherwise rufopiceous, 
thinly covered with elongate and elongate-ovate yellowish white 
scales. Tibiae rufopiceous, thinly covered with linear white scales. 
Tarsi rufopiceous; first three segments short and broad; fourth seg- 
ment extending only a little beyond the third, claws connate near 
their bases, slightly divergent. Median lobe of male genitalia as in 
group description, apex bluntly V-shaped, orificial plates fused dor- 
sally (fig. 87). Arms of spiculum ventrale of female genitalia forming 
a V (figure 102). 
MeasurEMENTsS: The following measurements were taken from 5 
males and 2 females from Marion Co., Ind. (CU), 3 males and 6 
females from Easton, Pa. (CAS), and 2 males and 2 females from 
Cincinnati, Ohio (USNM). All measurements are in millimeters: 
