no. ^604 GLYPTOSCELIS — BLAKE 41 



prolonged. Jacoby wrote that specimens were in his collection and 

 also in the Stettin Museum. 



Glyptoscelis aeneipennis Baly 



Figure 36 

 Glyptoscelis aeneipennis Baly, 1865, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, ser. 3, vol. 2, p. 334. 



From 7.5 to 8.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, apex of elytra 

 with a prolonged tip; elytra usually having a greenish lustre, head, 

 prothorax, antennae and legs reddish brown, sometimes head and 

 prothorax piceous; prothorax not very coarsely punctate with a median 

 bare line and some bare round spots; elytra more coarsely punctate 

 and horizontally ridged in places, postscutellar region not at all 

 depressed, a little raised; pubescence on prothorax feathery and 

 arranged horizontally from median line, on elytra not so thick as to 

 cover surface, white interspersed with brownish hairs and scattered 

 patches of thicker white hairs in four rows on each elytron. 



Head with interocular space approximately half width of head, 

 usually a median depressed line down occiput and front, which are 

 finely and not densely punctate and thickly covered with fine white 

 appressed pubescence; labrum usually yellowish or reddish brown. 

 Antennae reddish brown, extending slightly below elytral humeri; 

 apical joints not much widened, seventh joint longer than rest. 

 Prothorax moderately convex with lateral sides nearly straight, 

 broadest at base, basal margin sinuate over scutellum; disc shining, 

 finely punctate, with bare median line and scattered small round bare 

 spots, mostly near apex and base on either side of median line; reddish 

 brown or piceous. Scutellum deep reddish brown or piceous with a 

 few white hairs. Elytra with an intrahumeral sulcus and a somewhat 

 raised postscutellar region, greatest width at humeri, gradually tapering 

 after the middle to the apex, which is produced noticeably into two 

 slightly divergent tips; surface shining, usually with a greenish lustre, 

 more coarsely punctate than prothorax, punctures tending to be 

 geminate striate with the intervals having finer punctures, some 

 horizontal ridging; pubescence usually white with scattered brown 

 hairs and a few denser patches of white distributed unevenly on each 

 elytron in four lines. Body beneath covered with white, closely 

 appressed pubescence, denser on sides; legs usually reddish brown. 

 Length 7.5-8.5 mm.; width 3.5-3.8 mm. 



Type: In British Museum (Natural History). 



Type-locality: Venezuela, Trinidad. 



Other localities: Venezuela: Santa Rita, Edo. Aragua, June 25, 

 1943, injuring Gossipium hirsutum, G.V.Berthier; Maracay, May 1935, 

 A. Escalona Salas. Colombia: Carare, 1939, H. Daniel; Pto. Berrie, 

 Aug. 3, 1938, H. Dybas. 



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