196 NEW SPECIES MELYRIDAE, CHRYSOMELIDAE AND TENEBRIONIDAE 



Holotype, male, and allotype, female, in the collection of the Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences. Paratypes in that of the Academy's and my 

 own collection. 



Type locality. Cazadero, Sonoma County, California. Collected on 

 April 12, 1918, by Mr. E. P. Van Duzee. 



Collected from the foliage of Sequoia sempervirens Endl. It appears 

 somewhat probable that when the species of Glyptoscelis are better known, 

 the food plant will be found to be more or less different in case of each 

 species. Glyptoscelis illustris Cr. is usually taken from yellow pine (Pinus 

 ponderosa Dougl.), in the vicinity of Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, 

 California ; squamulatus Cr. is found plentifully on willow and a closely 

 related species is found on a composite shrub growing along the San 

 Diego River in Mission Valley, San Diego County, California. Two 

 species were taken from juniper trees on Black Mountain (elevation 8100 

 feet), at Huntington Lake, Fresno County, California, during the month 

 of July, 1919; another from fir in Humboldt County, California; finally. 

 Mr. Van Duzee has taken the species described below from wild rose 

 near Sacramento, California. Other phases are at hand the food plants 

 of which are not known. Ulke has reported that the eastern species 

 pubescens Fab. and barbatus Say are common on pine. 



Glyptoscelis parvulus, new species. Form rather short oblong-oval, 

 robust and moderately convex ; prothorax distinctly narrower than the 

 elytra. Color black, with an aeneous, cupreous or virido-aeneous tinge ; 

 legs rufo-piceous, palpi and antennae more or less rufous. Surface more 

 or less shining, sparsely and evenly clothed with rather long recumbent 

 hair-like scales, each scale longitudinally unistriate, grayish in color. 



Head rather strongly convex on the vertex ; front broadly and feebly 

 impressed above the scarcely prominent clypeo-f rental junction, a smooth 

 and narrow median line more or less evident ; punctuation rather coarse 

 and sparse. Antennae moderately long and slender, joints less elongate 

 than in sequoiae and similar to those in squamulatus and its allies, apical 

 five joints somewhat stouter, third to the sixth subequal in length and 

 slightly shorter than the seventh. 



Pronotum about a third wider than long, widest at middle, rather 

 moderately convex, strongly and precipitously declivous at the sides in 

 region of the apical angles ; apex moderately arcuate, post-ocular lobes 

 distinct and rather strong; sides moderately, broadly and rather evenly 

 arcuate, somewhat straight before the obtuse basal angles, as viewed from 

 above, marginal bead distinct in basal third and more or less feeble 

 anteriorly; base feebly arcuate; disk distinctly and somewhat sparsely 

 punctate, punctures moderately coarse, separated by a distance equal to 

 their diameter. 



