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Remarks: The type of this species in the British Museum is a much 

 rubbed specimen, but what is left of the feathery white pubescence on 

 the pro thorax is typical. On the elytra the pubescence is mostly 

 white with numerous thicker patches, in rows. The prothorax and 

 scutellum arc reddish brown. The apex of the aedeagus is like that of 

 many other species, being rounded with a tiny knob at tip. This 

 species is the first of two described by Baly on the same page, the 

 second one being G. fascicularis, whose habitat is given as Colombia. 

 Glyptoscelis fascicularis was synonymized by Jacoby with G. aeneipen- 

 nis. It is very difficult to separate the two by any external characters, 

 but the aedeagi are entirely different. Baly gave the differences as 

 being that G. fascicularis is somewhat larger with fuscous pubescence 

 on the upper side of the body. The latter character, the fuscous 

 pubescence, is better than the size, which is not very different in many 

 specimens. Glyptoscelis aeneipennis has more uniformly white 

 pubescence, especially noticeable on the prothorax. Often, however, 

 the white elytral pubescence is interspersed with brownish hairs, but 

 not quite to the extent of G. fascicularis. 



Glyptoscelis fascicularis Baly 



Figure 35 



Glyptoscelis fascicularis Baly, 1865, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, ser. 3d, vol. 2, 



p. 334. 

 Glyptoscelis aeneipennis Jacoby, 1900, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 502. 



From 7.5 to 10 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, widest at 

 humeri, elytra tapering and with a narrow apical prolongation; 

 postscutellar area with a definite hump; elytra usually with greenish 

 lustre, prothorax and scutellum usually and antennae and legs always 

 reddish brown; usually brownish pubescence on prothorax arranged 

 horizontally from median bare impunctate area, and usually heavier 

 white pubescence on sides and on each side of middle, forming four 

 white vittae; pubescence on elytra usually brownish with denser 

 white patches in rows. 



Head with interocular space half width of head, a median line down 

 front, finely punctate, and with brownish pubescence. Antennae 

 pale reddish brown, extending below humeri, not much widened in 

 apical joints, seventh joint long. Prothorax moderately convex 

 with slightly rounded lateral sides, widest at base, a median bare 

 line and round bare spots on either side, punctation not coarse but 

 dense, usually brownish pubescence horizontally arranged from 

 median line, and with denser white hairs on either side and near 

 lateral margin, forming four white vittae. Scutellum usually reddish 

 brown with a few hairs. Elytra widest at humeri with a definite 

 hump behind scutellum, tapering to apex, which is narrowly pro- 



