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Bass Lake, Madera Co., Apr. 24, 1934, H. P. Allen; Sonora, Tuolumne 

 Co., Apr. 17, 1934, E. P. Van Duzee; Pyramid, Ranger Sta., F. B. 

 Herbert, on Juniperus occidentalis. 



Remarks : The large size, lustrous bronzy coloring and silky brown 

 pubescence mingled with the coarser white hairs that form a vittate 

 pattern at the apex of the elytra distinguish this species. 



Glyptoscclis aridis Van Dyke, new status 



Figure 16 

 Glyptoscelis illustris ssp. aridis Van Dyke, 1938, Ent. News, vol. 49, p. 194. 



From 8 to 10.5 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining bronzy black 

 beneath the coarse white and yellowish-brown pubescence; pro thorax 

 nearly as long as wide, densely and coarsely punctate with yellowish- 

 brown pubescence in middle and white hairs on sides; elytra nearly 

 covered with dense coarse white hairs with yellowish-brown hairs 

 forming short vittae, especially in apical half; somewhat depressed 

 about scutellum and a shallow transverse depression below basal 

 callosities; punctation on pronotum deep, round, not too coarse, and 

 on elytra becoming finer toward apex. 



Head with interocular space more than half width of head, surface 

 densely punctate, more coarsely on lower half, covered with thick 

 white pubescence and across front with light yellowish-brown thick 

 hairs, a median line ending in a small depression on front. Antennae 

 extending below humeri, dark reddish brown with white pubescence, 

 seventh joint long. Pro thorax somewhat wider than long with 

 rounded sides, sinning, deeply, densely, but not coarsely punctate, 

 sides well covered with coarse white pubescence, in middle less 

 densely by yellowish-brown pubescence. Scutellum with many white 

 hairs. Elytra with prominent humeri, a short intrahumeral sulcus, 

 a depressed area about scutellum and below basal callosities; surface 

 shining beneath coarse, semierect hairs that are mostly white but 

 with yellowish-brown hairs on basal callosities and in vittate areas near 

 apex; punctation moderately coarse and dense, with little horizontal 

 ridging, becoming finer toward apex. Body beneath uniformly 

 covered with white appressed pubescence, the hairs near apex of 

 middle and hind tibiae becoming yellowish. Length 8-10.5 mm.; 

 width 4.5-5.1 mm. 



Type: In California Academy of Sciences. 



Type-locality: Westgard Pass Plateau, Inyo County, Calif., taken 

 May 27, 1937, Van Dyke collector, June 7, 1937, L.D. Phillips. 



Other localities: California: Argus Mts., Inyo Co., on Pinus 

 monophylla V oss, Hubbard and Schwarz, May 1891. 



Remarks: Although Van Dyke regarded this as a subspecies of 

 G. illustris, there is sufficient difference in the pubescence as well as 



