no. 3604 GLYPTOSCELIS BLAKE 17 



Glyptoscelis vandykei Krauss, new status 



Figure 9 

 Glyptoscelis sequoiae vandykei Krauss, 1937, Univ. Calif. Publ. Ent., vol. 7, no. 2, 

 p. 28. 



From 8 to 10 mm. in length, broadly oblong oval, shining piceous, 

 antennae usually very dark brown or piceous, prothorax broad, 

 densely and deeply punctate, elytra coarsely and contiguously punc- 

 tate, covered with coarse white and pale brown hairs, not closely 

 appressed. 



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

 slightly emarginate at antennal sockets, a more or less well-defined 

 median line ending in a depression in middle of front, lower front more 

 coarsely punctate, punctures dense on head with rather fine and 

 closely appressed white and pale brown pubescence. Antennae long, 

 extending well below humeri, outer joints wider, seventh joint long, 

 usually dark brown or piceous. Prothorax considerably wider than 

 long, almost as wide as elytra, with curved sides, moderately convex 

 with depression along basal margin; deeply, coarsely and densely 

 punctate, punctures oval or even sometimes diamond shaped; pubes- 

 cence long and moderately coarse, in middle usually pale brown and 

 semierect, not entirely concealing punctation, below middle the 

 pattern of pubescence branching horizontally toward sides and 

 feathery. Scutellum with finer white pubescence. Elytra slightly 

 depressed below scutellum and also below basal callosities, a short 

 intrahumeral sulcus; punctation contiguous, coarse, with horizontal 

 ridging about scutellum; pubescence not so thick as to conceal puncta- 

 tion below, coarse, not closely appressed but semierect, pale brown and 

 white. Body beneath densely punctate and covered with white 

 pubescence. Length 7.6-9.7 mm.; width 4-5 mm. 



Type: In California Academy of Sciences. 



Type-locality: Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oreg., June 16, 

 1922, Van Dyke, on juniper. 



Other localities: Oregon: Crater Lake, alt. 7000 ft., July 17, 1922, 

 Van Dyke. 



Remarks: This species is easily separated from G. sequoiae Blaisdell 

 by its larger size, coarser pubescence, and different coloring. Glyptos- 

 celis sequoiae is noticeable because of its coppery lustre, whereas G. 

 vandykei is piceous. The aedeagus is also quite different in shape, in 

 G. vandykei being broadly rounded at the apex. The pubescence is 

 not so coarse as in G. albida, which otherwise it resembles in size and 

 robustness, and again the aedeagus is quite unlike that of G. albida. 

 Unlike G. sequoiae, its food plant is apparently juniper. 



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