SMICRONYX WEEVILS—ANDERSON 321 
DistrigutTion: The few existing records of S. resplendens are from 
the southern portions of the California Valley section and Sierra 
Nevada section of the Pacific mountain system. The following spec- 
imens were examined: 
CaALIFoRNIA: INyo co.: Argus Mountains, April 19 (USNM). KERN co.: No 
data (USNM). 
Total specimens examined: 9. 
Smicronyx pusio LeConte 
FiaurEs 38, 92, 138 
Smicronyz pusio LeConte, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., vol. 15, p. 171, 1876. Type: 
Female, Cape San Lucas, Mexico (collected by “Mr. Xantus”), MCZ 1900 
(J. L. LeConte collection). 
Smicronyz rufulus Dietz, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 21, p. 167, 1894. New 
synonymy. Lectotype, here designated: Female, Riverside, Arizona, col- 
lected by H. F. Wickham, MCZ 1917 (Dietz collection). 
Synertha wickhami Dietz, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 21, p. 174, 1894. Type: 
Female, Riverside, Arizona, collected by Wickham, MCZ 1925 (Dietz 
collection). 
Description: Body and legs but not head entirely light reddish 
brown, covered with golden brown slightly iridescent ovate to sub- 
orbicular scales. Rostra of both sexes light reddish brown, moderately 
curved, only slightly tapered from base to apex; squamose, closely but 
not coarsely punctate behind antennal insertions; striate behind 
antennal insertions in male, but not in female; surface dull, 
sparsely punctate in male, shining and sparsely punctate in female. 
Head piceous, closely squamose. Antennae reddish brown, their 
scales light brown. Prothorax moderately rounded at sides, moder- 
ately narrowed toward apex; setiform scales stout, darker than ovate 
scales in some specimens; punctures of disk nearly round, evenly 
spaced; prosternum moderately emarginate," transversely impressed. 
Elytra elongate, not very convex, sides subparallel from base to 
point of convergence. Femora moderately clavate; scales broadly 
ovate. Tibiae stout, scales mostly elliptical, a few elongate. Third 
segment of tarsi distinctly broader than first two; claws connate for 
approximately half their length, subparallel. Sides of median lobe of 
male genitalia subparallel; internal sac not exceeding median lobe in 
length, covered with small dark spines (fig. 92). Arms of spiculum 
ventrale of female genitalia forming a distinct V, anterior end of stem 
markedly expanded (fig. 138). 
Measurements: The following measurements were taken from 
6 males and 5 females from ‘‘S. Marfa,’”’? Tex. (USNM) and 2 males 
