CHRYSOMELIDAE 195 



PART II. 

 CHRYSOMELIDAE. 



Glyptoscelis sequoiae, new species. Form oblong-oval, broadly 

 rounded posteriorly, moderately convex ; head and prothorax narrowing 

 anteriorly. Cdlor a beautiful cupreous ; antennae more or less rufous, 

 terminal three joints black, seventh and eighth blackish in about apical 

 half ; legs rufous. Surface more or less shining, sparsely and quite evenly 

 clothed with a rather long, soft fulvous pubescence which is recumbent, 

 subsquamiform and linear, each hair marked with a longitudinal median 

 stria. 



Head and pronotum somewhat coarsely, regularly punctate ; punc- 

 tures well denned, separated by a distance equal to one-half their 

 diameter. Head with an impunctate median line, front broadly, trans- 

 versely but not strongly prominent at the clypeo-frontal junction, broadly 

 and more or less moderately impressed between the eyes. Antennae long 

 and slender. 



Pronotum a little wider than long; sides rather evenly arcuate, 

 moderately convergent anteriorly as viewed from above ; apex quite 

 broadly arcuate ; base slightly lobed at middle,, feebly sinuate laterally and 

 scarcely wider than the disk at middle; pubescence slightly denser laterally 

 and more hair-like centrally. 



Elytra oblong, about one-half longer than wide, sides parallel, scarcely 

 arcuate, and broadly, evenly arcuate in apical one-fourth ; disk evidently 

 flattened about the scutellum; pubescence appearing feebly vittate when 

 viewed longitudinally ; punctures evenly and rather closely placed, some- 

 what smaller than on the pronotum, finer toward apex. 



Pubescence of under surface somewhat whitish, scarcely longer than 

 on the supper surface, hair-like and apparently not striate. Punctuation 

 finer than above. 



Claivs cleft. Inner division of each much shorter and smaller than 

 the outer part, acute, especially on the middle and posterior claws. 



Male. Fifth ventral abdominal segment somewhat arcuately 

 deflexed apically, and with a somewhat broad, oblong-oval impression at 

 middle, which may be more or less impunctate at bottom. 



Female. Fifth ventral distinctly arcuately deflexed apically, and more 

 or less concave throughout the width. 



Measurements. Length (Types), 6-7 mm. ; width, 3-3.5 mm. 



