no. 3604 GLYPTOSCELIS — BLAKE 15 



but little at higher levels. On way back drove out beyond Inde- 

 pendence and towards the river. Close to flume found Glyptoscelis 

 alter nata on vetch [Glycyrrhiza lepidota (Nuttall)]." There are in the 

 California Academy about 70 specimens that Dr. Van Dyke collected 

 that day at Independence. 



Glyptoscelis albida LeConte 



Figures 7, 8, 10 

 Glyptoscelis albidus LeConte, 1859, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 9, 



p. 81.— Crotch, 1873, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 25, p. 36. 

 Glyptoscelis albida Horn, 1892, Trans. American Ent. Soc, vol. 19, p. 203. 

 Glyptoscelis albida Krauss, 1937, Univ. California Publ. Ent., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 25- 

 26. 



From 6 to 10.5 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining piceous with a 

 bronzy and often purplish-brown lustre beneath the thick white and 

 sometimes pale brownish coarse hairs; antennae, tibiae, and tarsi 

 tending to be dark reddish brown; prothorax contiguously and coarsely 

 punctate, with pubescence vertical in middle and branching from 

 either side of middle of base diagonally toward side; elytra broad, 

 convex, depressed a little about scutellum. 



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

 line down front ending in a depression in middle from which white 

 pubescence radiates, densely and coarsely punctate and covered with 

 dense white appressed hairs; eyes slightly emarginate at antennal 

 sockets. Antennae extending below humeri, dark brown, outer 

 joints wider, seventh joint long. Prothorax large, broader than long 

 with rounded sides, convex with median basal depression; very coarsely 

 and contiguously punctate and covered with white coarse hairs 

 arranged vertically down middle and branching from either side of base 

 diagonally and horizontally toward sides in broad sweeping pattern. 

 Scutellum with finer white hairs. Elytra broad, convex, a slight 

 depression below scutellum and a short intrahumeral sulcus; puncta- 

 tion coarse, often contiguous near base and somewhat horizontally 

 ridged; pubescence dense and coarse, but not entirely hiding surface 

 and producing a grayish white aspect to beetle, the white hairs inter- 

 mixed with pale brown ones. Body beneath densely punctate and 

 densely covered with finer white hairs becoming silky and yellowish 

 brown at apex of tibiae. Length 6.2-10.5 mm.; width 3.3-5.3 mm. 



Type: In Museum of Comparative Zoology. Types of G. albida 

 diabola and G. albida yosemitae Krauss in California Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Type-locality: Ft. Tejon, Calif. 



Other localities: California: Alameda Co.: Niles Canyon, May 

 14, 1922, Van Dyke; Altomont, Apr. 30, 1956, R. P. Allen; hills back 

 of Oakland. Contra Costa Co.: Berkeley, Apr. 19, 1940, Miller; 



