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Broutoey: The only biological information available on this species 
is a single record of a host plant: “In buds Bidens,” Bergen Beach, 
Long Island, N.Y. (12 specimens taken, USNM). 
Discussion: Although S. rectirostris was originally known only 
from the type locality in Florida, the specimens from New Jersey, 
Long Island, and Massachusetts compare closely in all external de- 
tails with the specimens in the type series in the Blatchley collection. 
Possibly the range of this species will eventually be found to be con- 
tinuous along the Atlantic Coast from Florida to the New England 
States. 
S. rectirostris resembles S. humilis (Dietz) in size, color of scales, 
and in having a rather straight rostrum in the female, but the two 
species may be readily distinguished by the characters given in the 
key on p. 333, and by the faintly mottled elytra of S. rectirostris. 
Disrrinution: Present records indicate that S. rectirostris exists in 
the northern and southern portions of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal 
plain. There is one record (Mount Tom, Mass.) from the upper part 
of the Connecticut lowland section of the New England and Maritime 
province, and one record (Montclair, N.J.) from the Piedmont Pla- 
teau. The following specimens were examined: 
ALABAMA! BALDWIN Co.: Gulf Shores, Oct. 8 (B. D. Valentine). 
MASSACHUSETTS: HAMPSHIRE Co.: Mount Tom, Aug. 17 (USNM). 
New JERSEY: CAPE MAY Co.: Anglesea, July 7 (USNM). Essex co.: Montclair 
(USNM). ocBan co.: Bay Head, Aug. 30 (USNM); Normandy Beach, Aug. 
(USNM). 
New YORK: QUEENS Co.: Bergen Beach, July 15 (USNM). 
Total specimens examined: 30. 
Unreccegnized Species 
Smicronyx fraterculus Dietz 
Smicronyz fraterculus Dietz, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 21, p. 151, 1894. 
The single female specimen to which Dietz (1894) referred is miss- 
ing from the Dietz collection at Harvard. The pin, locality label 
(‘‘Ariz.”’), determination label, and type label are all present, but the 
specimen and the point on which it presumably was mounted are 
missing. Thus, the species is considered unrecognizable. 
