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usually the elytra are covered with thick brownish pubescence with 

 some white hairs intermingled. There is a third northern species, G. 

 longior LeConte, whose type-locality is Atlanta, Idaho, and which 

 does not extend north of Oregon but is found also in Wyoming in the 

 Yellowstone National Park area. All three species are small and 

 easily confused and from essentially the same northwestern area. 



Glyptoscclis paula, new species 



Figure 19 



About 6 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, shining piceous 

 beneath coarse white pubescence. Antennae and tarsi reddish brown, 

 claw with inner tooth near tip making it appear bifid. 



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

 eyes emarginate at antennal sockets, occiput very finely and sparsely 

 punctate, more coarsely punctate on lower front with coarser white 

 pubescence, a median line ending in a depression in middle of front. 

 Antennae extending below humeri, reddish brown. Pro thorax almost 

 as long as wide with nearly straight sides, convex, moderately densely 

 and not coarsely punctate, with finer white hairs than on elytra. 

 Elytra with prominent humeri and an intrahumeral sulcus and faintly 

 depressed area about scutellum, rather finely and not densely punctate 

 and not too densely covered with coarse white and pale brown hairs. 

 Body beneath densely pubescent. Length 6 mm.; width 2.7 mm. 



Type: Male, U.S. National Museum no. 69199. 



Type-locality: Wendell, Idaho, May 19, 1933, "on pure stand of 

 Artemisia tridentata." 



Remarks: The slender shape and small size of this species distin- 

 guish it from Q. parvula Blaisdell and G. coloradoensis. Like both of 

 them the claw has an inner tooth near the tip and the aedeagus like 

 them has a rounded apex. The head in G. paula is unusually smooth 

 and with punctures only along the median line on the occiput and front, 

 and in this respect it differs from the other species, which are all 

 densely and coarsely punctate over the entire head. In its slender 

 shape as well as its faintly vittate elytral pubescence, it resembles 

 G. artemisiae, another small species, but the aedeagus in G. artemisiae 

 is truncate and not rounded at the tip. Only one specimen is known. 



Glyptoscelis parvula Blaisdell 



Figure 25 

 Glyptoscelis parvulus Blaisdell, 1921, Stanford Univ. Publ. Biol. Ser., vol. 1, 



no. 3, pp. 196-7. 

 Glyptoscelis parvula Kranss, 1937, Univ. California Publ. Ent., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 



28-29. 



Between 5 and 7 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, shining, dark 

 piceous beneath moderately coarse but not dense white and pale brown 



