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Senator Mine near Prescott, Sept. 9 (CNHM); Prescott (AMNH); Seligman 
(CNC). 
COLORADO: BOULDER CO.: Boulder (USNM). DENVER co.: Denver, Aug. 24 
(USNM). q@arrieLD co.: Glenwood Springs, Aug. (CAS). meEsa co.: De 
Beque, July 26 (CNHM). 
IDAHO: CANYON Co.: Parma, Aug. 13 (CAS). 
ILLINOIS: CHAMPAIGN Co.: Urbana, Sept. 5 (USNM). coox co.: Schiller 
Park, Sept. 9 (CNHM). 
Kansas: Kiowa co.: Belvidere, Aug. (CAS). riteyco.: Manhattan, Aug. 12 
(USNM). sEpawick co.: Aua. 6, (USNM); Mount Hope, Aug. 14 (CAS); 
Wichita, Aug. 12 (USNM). sHAWNEE co.: Topeka (USNM). wyaNnporTTE 
co.: July 11, (CAS). ‘‘Kans.’? (USNM). 
Missouri: scott co.: Sikeston, Sept. 29 (USNM). st. Lours co.: Creve 
Coer Lake, Sept. 20 (CAS). 
Montana: “‘Mon.”’ (AMNH). 
NEBRASKA: LANCASTER Co.: Lincoln, Aug. 22 (USNM); Malcolm, July 21 
(USNM). 
New MeExiIco: BERNALILLO co.: Albuquerque (USNM). McKINLEY Co.: 
Fort Wingate, Oct. (CNHM). orsro co.: Bent, Sept. (CU). SANDOVAL Co.: 
Jemez Mountains, Aug. 30 (CAS). santa FEeco.: Bandelier National Monument, 
July 7 (CNHM); Santa Fe, Aug. (CAS); Tesuque, Aug. (CAS). ‘“‘N. Mex.” 
(CNHM). 
Norta CARouina: POLK co.: Tryon (USNM). 
OKLAHOMA: OKLAHOMA Co.: Oklahoma City, Aug., Aug. 1 (USNM). 
OrxEGON; wasco co.: The Dalles, Aug. 9 (USNM). 
SoutH DaxkoTA: FALL RIVER co.: Ardmore, Sept. 2 (USNM). 
TEXAS: JEFF DAVIS Co.: Fort Davis, Sept. 15 (CU). 
UTAH: DAvis co.: Bountiful, Sept. 15 (USNM). uraH co.: Lehi, Sept. 8 
(USNM). satT Lake co.: Salt Lake City, Aug. (CAS); Salt Lake City (Emigra- 
tion Canyon), Aug. 3 (USNM). 
WASHINGTON: GRANT Co.: Coulee City, Sept. 2 (USNM). 
Total specimens examined: 152. 
Smicronyx sordidus LeConte 
Fraurss 97, 143 
Smicronyx sordidus LeConte, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., vol. 15, p. 173, 1876. 
Lectotype, here designated: Male, Texas, MCZ 1889 (J. L. LeConte collec- 
tion). 
Desmoris montanus Dietz, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 21, p. 124, 1894. 
New synonymy. Lectotype, here designated: Female, Montana, MCZ 
1886 (Dietz collection). 
Description: Rostra of both sexes black to piceous, almost 
straight, slightly constricted before basal groove; stouter, closely but 
not coarsely punctate from base to apex, densely squamose behind 
antennal insertions in male; much longer, smooth, and shining except 
near base in the female. Head black, almost smooth, very sparsely 
squamose. Antennae rufopiceous throughout. Prothorax black, 
moderately rounded on sides, strongly narrowed and slightly con- 
stricted behind apex; disk evenly punctate except for a smooth median 
