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punctation, legs yellowish or reddish brown. Length 8-10.5 mm.; 

 width 4-5 mm. 



Type: Female, in British Museum (Natural History). Type of 

 G. liebecki in Blatchley collection, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. 



Type-locality: For its habitat Baly gives only "?". 



Other localities: Illinois: southern part, May 7, 1892, H. Soltau. 

 Arkansas: Pine Bluff, Mar. 20, Hubbard and Schwarz. Louisiana: 

 Tallulah, Mar. 8-15, 1944. Texas: College Station, Apr. 1, 1917; 

 Texas, C. V. Riley. 



Remarks: The reddish-brown color and coarse white hairs dis- 

 tinguish this from other eastern species. It closely resembles G. 

 cryptica Say in its coloring but the scalelike pubescence in G. cryptica 

 is broader and there are more distinct elytral prolongations at the tip 

 than in G. albicans. Sometimes in G. albicans there may be a bunching 

 of the white hairs at the tip to simulate a little prolongation. 



Glyptoscelis albicans Baly has been synomized with G. cryptica Say. 

 I have examined the Baly type in the British Museum (Natural 

 History), and it has no prolongation of the tip as in G. cryptica. The 

 elytra are covered with a dense white pubescence that conceals the 

 punctation, the hairs are not so short or broad as in G. cryptica. The 

 elytra are not at all metallic and are slightly humped in the middle, 

 well below the scutellum. Jacoby's observation (under G. albicans 

 in the "Biologia Centrali- Americana," Coleoptera, vol. 6, pt. 1, 1882, 

 p. 177) that his specimen from the Salle collection with simple claws 

 differs in this respect from the type of G. albicans, which has bifid 

 claws, is sufficient to rule out G. albicans from being the same as G. 

 cryptica Say. 



The pattern of the pubescence on the prothorax is different from 

 that of the G. squamulata group and also of species from Mexico. In 

 fact, the only species that can fit G. albicans is Blatchley's G. liebecki, 

 which strongly resembles G. cryptica, except that it has bifid claws. 



Blatchley gave the distribution in Indiana as Knox, Martin, and 

 Posey Counties, all in the southwest part of the state. It is also from 

 southern Illinois but there are no records from farther north or east. 

 It ranges south and west to Texas. 



Glyptoscelis cryptica (Say) 



Figure 3 



Eumolpus crypticus Say, 1824, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 3, p. 449. 



Glyptoscelis crypticus Crotch, 1873, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 25, p. 36. 



Glyptoscelis cryptica Horn, 1892, Trans. American Ent. Soc, vol. 19, pp. 202, 



204.— Krauss, 1937, Univ. California Publ. Ent., vol. 7, no. 2, p. 30. 



From 8 to 10.5 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining reddish brown 

 beneath the short white scalelike pubescence, elytra with prolonged 

 tips parted, more developed in male, claws simple. 



