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16. Small (5-7 mm.), with short stout antennae not extending much below 



humeri, thorax contracted at base (on rose or willow; area about Sacra- 

 mento, Calif.) parvula Blaisdell 



Usually larger with antennae reaching below humeri, thorax not noticeably 

 contracted at base 17 



17. Elytra with hairs forming white vittae (Idaho, Wyoming). 



idahoensis, new species 

 Elytra without white vittae 18 



18. Claw with tooth near base (Klamath, Oreg.) vandykei Krauss 



Claw with tooth at middle or near apex 19 



19. Pubescence not coarse, strawcolored or darker, surface shining with aeneous 



or bronzy lustre (on Juniperus or Libocedrus; Sierra Mts.). 



juniperi, new species 



Pubescence coarse and white with a few yellowish hairs; surface piceous 



with faint bronzy lustre (Colorado, Utah) . . . coloradoensis, new species 



20. Elytral pubescence mostly dark brown with a few white hairs, giving beetle 



brown look (Humboldt Co., Calif., to British Columbia, east to Montana). 



septentrionalis, new species 

 Etytral pubescence not dark brown, appearing grayish 21 



21. From 7-8 mm. long (Cascade Range in Shasta, Siskiyou, Trinity Cos., 



Calif.) peperi, new species 



From 5.5-6.5 mm. long (from middle of Oregon eastward to Idaho, 

 Wyoming) longior LeConte 



Glyptoscelis pubescens (Fabricius) 



Figure 1 



Cryptocephahis pubescens Fabricius, 1776, Genera insectorum, p. 220; 1801, 



Systema eleutheron, vol. 2, p. 43. 

 Eumolpus hirsutus Gmelin, 1788, edition of Linnaeus, Systema natura, vol. 1, p. 



1703. 

 Eumolpus hirtus Olivier, 1808, Entomologie, vol. 6, p. 906. 

 Eumolpus pini Say, 1827, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, p. 295. 

 Glyptoscelis hirtus Crotch, 1873, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 25, p. 35. 

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



203.— Krauss, 1937, Univ. California Publ. Ent., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 23, 24. 



From 7.5 to 11 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining piceous with a 

 bronzy or sometimes faint rosy lustre; legs and antennae deep reddish 

 brown, prothorax with dense, deep, and coarse punctation, elytra a 

 little less coarsely and less densely punctate, especially toward the 

 apex; surface not entirely concealed by brown and white pubescence 

 that is semierect; prothorax nearly as broad as elytra, not very convex, 

 and with well-rounded sides. 



Head with interocular space considerably more than half width of 

 head, eyes emarginate near antennal sockets; a median depression 

 from which a median line up to occiput, punctation over front and 

 occiput dense, deep and variable in coarseness; a whitish pubescence 

 about eyes, brownish in middle of front, labrum reddish brown. 

 Antennae extending well below humeri, seventh joint long, outer 

 joints wider and often deeper brown. Prothorax not as convex as in 



