no. :!604 GLYPTOSCELIS — BLAKE 19 



Sierra species, G. juniperi, and the pubescence coarser and the tip of 

 the aedeagus not so broadly rounded. 



Glyptoscelis idahoensis, new species 



Figure 11 



From 7 to 8 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining piceous beneath 

 coarse white pubescence; prothorax densely and coarsely punctate, 

 elytra coarsely and rugosely punctate toward base, finer toward apex; 

 pubescence on elytra sometimes with vittate lines. 



Head with interocular space more than half width of head, a de- 

 pressed median line down front ending in a depression from which 

 coarse white hairs radiate, whole head densely covered with white 

 hairs, beneath which are dense, coarse punctures; eyes slightly emar- 

 ginate at antennal sockets. Prothorax slightly wider than long with 

 rounded sides, densely, deeply, and quite coarsely punctate, punc- 

 tures elongate or diamond shaped and covered not densely with 

 coarse white hairs in a pattern that branches a little below the middle 

 with feathery formations toward the sides. Scutellum with a few 

 white hairs. Elytra with very little depression below scutellum, a 

 short intrahumeral sulcus; punctation coarse with horizontal ridgings 

 in basal part, punctation becoming finer toward apex, and not entirely 

 concealed by coarse white hairs that tend to form two vittate lines on 

 each elytron. Body beneath densely punctate and pubescent, tibiae, 

 tarsi and antennae tending to be dark reddish brown. Length 7-8.2 

 mm.; width 3.7-4.2 mm. 



Type: U.S. National Museum no. 69196 and 3 paratypes. 



Type-locality: Pocatello, Idaho, Hubbard and Schwarz, 2 speci- 

 mens from same locality in Wickham collection. 



Other localities: Wyoming: Fremont Co., Apr. 29, 1949. Niobrara 

 Co., July 1, 1943, R. E. Pfadt. 



Remarks: This species is very like G. albida LeConte in size and 

 shape, and also in its coarse white pubescence, and Schwarz has 

 labelled it as that species. But the hairs, while coarse, are not so 

 long as in G. albida, and the pattern of the pubescence on the prothorax 

 as well as the tendency to form vittae on the elytra is different. The 

 aedeagus too is entirely unlike that of G. albida, being rounded and not 

 triangular at the apex. 



Glyptoscelis sequoiae Blaisdell 



Figure 13 

 Glyptoscelis sequoiae Blaisdell, 1921, Stanford Univ. Publ. Biol. Sci., vol. 1, 

 no. 3, pp. 195-6.— Krauss, 1937, Univ. California Publ. Ent., vol. 7, no. 2, 

 p. 27. 



Between 6.5 and 8 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, shining 

 usually with a coppery, sometimes bronzy lustre; antennae and legs 



