no. "604 GLYPTOSCELIS — BLAKE 11 



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 small depression in middle of front, from which 

 white pubescence radiates, surface lustrous, dark reddish brown, 

 densely punctate, covered with dense, coarse white hairs, labrum paler 

 reddish brown. Antennae extending below humeri, outer joints 

 thicker, seventh joint long, reddish brown. Prothorax widest at 

 base, with nearly straight sides, moderately convex, in some specimens 

 a median depression, more marked in middle of base; surface shiny, 

 densely and not very coarsely punctate, lustrous dark reddish brown, 

 covered with short, dense, coarse, white hairs, sometimes almost 

 scalelike. Scutellum with fine white hairs. Elytra a little depressed 

 below scutellum and with a short intrahumeral sulcus and prominent 

 humeri, tapering to apex with apices prolonged and parted, especially 

 in male, not united at tip as in G. chontalensis Jacoby; surface very 

 shiny, dark reddish brown, with punctation coarser near base, covered 

 with scalelike white pubescence, wider than hairs on prothorax. 

 Body beneath densely punctate and with white scalelike pubescence 

 becoming finer on abdomen, claws simple. Length 8-10.5 mm.; 

 width 4-5 mm. 



Type: Whereabouts unknown. 



Type-locality: "Inhabits Missouri." 



Other localities: Missouri: St. Louis; central Missouri, C. V. 

 Riley. Arkansas: Pine Bluff, Mar. 22, Hubbard and Schwarz. 

 Indiana. Oklahoma: Oklahoma City, May 28, 1957, O. Alexander. 

 Kansas: East Kansas; Topeka, E. A. Popenoe. 



Remarks: I have seen very few specimens of this species, and these 

 are mostly old ones from the Riley and Popenoe collections. The 

 reddish-brown coloring, scalelike pubescence on the elytra, and pro- 

 longed and parted apices of the elytra, more developed in male, 

 distinguish this species. It is unique in the genus in having simple 

 claws. 



There is a figure of this species in the "Biologia Centrali-Americana" 

 (Coleoptera, vol. 6, p. 177, 1882) illustrating a specimen, probably a 

 female, from the Sturm collection and labelled "Mexico," which 

 Jacoby called G. albicans Baly, although he noted that it differed from 

 G. albicans by having simple not bifid or appendiculate claws. 



Glyptoscclis squatnulata Crotch 



Figure 6 



Glyptoscelis squamulatus Crotch, 1873, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 35. 

 Glyptoscelis squamulata Horn, 1892, Trans. American Ent. Soc, vol. 19, p. 204. 

 Glyptoscelis squamulata Krauss, 1937, Univ. California Publ. Ent., vol. 7, no. 2, 

 p. 29. 



