Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 123 1967 Number 3604 



Revision of the Beetles 



Of Genus Glyptoscelis 



(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) 



By Doris H. Blake 



Honorary Research Associate, Department of Entomology 



In a paper on the Coleoptera of Fort Tejon, Calif. (Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 9, p. 81, 1859), LeConte briefly de- 

 scribed the genus Glyptoscelis as follows: "The genus Glyptoscelis 

 (Chevrolat) [Dejean Catalogue, 3rd ed., p. 438, nomen nudum, 1837] 

 is distinguished from the other genera allied to Eumolpus by the 

 mouth not being covered beneath by the presternum, by the claws 

 being toothed, and by the tibiae being longitudinally sulcate. The 

 head is not sculptured as in Heteraspis [Graphops]." 



The first species, pubescens, was described as early as 1777 by Fabri- 

 cius under Eumolpus. Linneaus in 1788 gave this species another 

 name, and he was followed by Olivier in 1808 with still another specific 

 name, and our own early American entomologist, Thomas Say, in 

 1827 gave a fourth name to this species, which is widespread over the 

 eastern half of the United States. Say also described two other 

 species from the eastern and middle states under Eumolpus. In 

 LeConte's paper of 1859 he described Glyptoscelis albida, the first 

 species from the West Coast. In 1878, nearly 20 years later, he de- 

 scribed G. longior, a second western species. In the meantime, in 



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