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depressed below scutellum; punctation coarser near base with some 

 horizontal ridging, becoming finer towards apex, covered with pale 

 brown and white pubescence, coarse and closely appressed, and in 

 most specimens with vittate lines of thicker white hairs giving it a 

 striped appearance. Body beneath densely punctate and covered 

 with closely appressed white pubescence, tibiae and tarsi deep reddish 

 brown. Length 6-7 mm. ; width 3-4 mm. 



Type: Male, and 9 paratypes, U.S. National Museum type no. 

 69198. 



Type-locality: Sardis, Wash., taken on sagebrush, May 21, 1899. 



Other localities: Washington: Washington Experiment Station, 

 W. S. Abbott, 1932; Ewan, June 28, 1920, R. C. Shannon; Lind, 

 May 15, 1922, M. C. Lane; Washington Territory, J. B. Smith; 

 Ritzville, May 6, 1921, M. C. Lane; Grand Coulee, Dry Falls Lake, 

 Apr. 21, 1957, M. H. Hatch; Upper Grand Coulee, Apr. 26, 1936, 

 M. H. Hatch; Moses Coulee, Apr. 4, 1947, George Schenk; Dry Falls, 

 May 14, 1938, M. H. Hatch; Pullman, C. V. Piper, M. C. Lane; 

 Vantage, May 4, 1935, Hatch and Wilson; Kahlatus, Sandhills, 

 Apr. 18, 1955, M. H. Hatch; Kamiak Butte, May 7, 1935; Cheney, 

 May 24, 1940; Kittitas, May 4, 1935, Hatch and Wilson; Roza, 

 Kittitas Co., May 19, 1957, M. H. Hatch; Uniontown, May 20, 1939, 

 M. C. Lane; Euphrata, Apr. 19, 1935, M. H. Hatch; Prosser, Apr. 25, 

 1911; Tieton, Yakima Co., Ewan; Almoto, Wawawai; Yakima Co., 

 April 29, 1919, on sagebrush, E. J. Newcomer; Republic, May 7, 

 1936, G. R. Hopkins. Oregon: Baker Co., July 1922. British 

 Columbia: Okanagan Falls, E. S. Ross; Spious Creek, May 28, 

 1920, R. Hopping; Vernon, May 2, 1932, R. Hopping; Wardner, 

 May 13, 1927, A. A. Denays. Idaho: Juliaetta, J. M. Aldrich. 

 Alberta: Medicine Hat, June 26, 1927, F. S. Carr. 



Remarks: This small species has been taken by several collectors on 

 sagebrush. It has been in the past identified as G. longior LeConte by 

 Krauss and G. albida LeConte by others, but it is a distinct little 

 species easily identified by the squarely truncate apex of the aedeagus 

 and the white vittate pattern in the elytral pubescence. As in G. 

 albida the pubescence is coarse and white. It is one of the two most 

 northernmost of our species of Glyptoscelis and it ranges from northeast 

 Oregon and northern Idaho throughout eastern Washington to British 

 Columbia and Alberta. The other most northern species, G. septen- 

 trionalis, has a wider, more southern as well as coastal range, from 

 Humboldt County in the northwestern part of California, throughout 

 Oregon and Washington to British Columbia. It also ranges east- 

 ward in Idaho and there is one record of its occurrence in Montana. 

 This species has been recorded on "fir" trees. It has a distinct 

 bronzy lustre in contrast to the shining black of G. artemisiae, and 



