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Auburn, Apr. 18, 1940, Van Dyke; one-half mile east of Paeston, 

 Marshall County, on Pinus taeda. 



Remarks: This is the most common and widespread species of 

 Glyptoscelis east of the Mississippi River, and its range is from 

 Ontario and Quebec to Mississippi and Alabama, and from Minnesota 

 eastward. It is recorded as being found on various species of pine, 

 also on hemlock and spruce. This large stout beetle with its brownish 

 coloration and its exceptionally wide prothorax is easily distinguished 

 from other species. There is considerable variation in size, specimens 

 from the more southern localities tending to be the largest. 



Glyptoscelis barbata (Say) 



Figure 2 



Eumolpus barbatus Say, 1826, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, p. 296. 

 Ghjptoscelis barbatus Crotch, 1873, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 25, 



p. 36. 

 Glyptoscelis barbata Horn, 1892, Trans. American Ent. Soc, vol. 19, pp. 202, 203. — 



Krauss, 1937, Univ. California Publ. Ent., vol. 7, no. 2, p. 24. 



Between 6 and 7.5 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining beneath 

 semierect brown pubescence, deep reddish brown or even piceous, 

 antennae reddish brown, very coarsely and densely punctate with 

 transverse ridging on elytra, pubescence beneath grayish white. 



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

 line down occiput and front, deep reddish brown, surface deeply, 

 densely and not very coarsely punctate, covered with brown pubes- 

 cence. Antennae extending below humeri, reddish brown, outer 

 joints a little wider, seventh joint long. Prothorax moderately convex 

 with rounded sides, deep reddish brown, punctation deep, contiguous 

 and tending to be oval, not entirely concealed by semierect brown 

 pubescence. Scutellum with a few hairs. Elytra broadly rounded 

 posteriorly, with a short intrahumeral sulcus, not noticeably depressed 

 below scutellum, a little elevated at middle, shining beneath the 

 reddish brown and semierect pubescence, punctures coarse, deep and 

 with transverse ridging. Body beneath shining beneath the dense 

 grayish pubescence, legs reddish brown with gray pubescence. Length 

 6-7.5 mm.; width 3.3-4 mm. 



Type: Whereabouts unknown. 



Type-locality: Not given by Say, who stated that it was a beetle 

 named in the Melsheimer Catalogue, and it is probably from the 

 Melsheimer collection and from Pennsylvania. 



Other localities: New York: New York, Long Island, and Staten 

 Island, all collected by M. L. Linell. New Jersey: M. L. Linell. 

 Pennsylvania: Alleghany, J. B. Smith, Red Bank, July 2, 1900; 

 Shiremanstown, May 15, 1915, on Carya foliage, W. S. Fisher; Lingles- 



