scaly hairs or scales. Two sperics have been taken in the State and 

 two others perhaps occur. 



KEY TO IKDIAKA SPECIES OF GLYPTOSCELIS. 



a. Tarsal claws cleft. 



&. Surface clothed with prostrate hairs. 



c. Elytra with a distinct depression surrounding the scutellum ; sur- 

 face s])arsely but equally clothed with gray and brown hairs. 



PUBESCENS. 



re. Elytra convex at base; surface liairs all brownish. 



lilO.'i. BABBATA. 



66. Surface clothed with hair-like whitish scales. -:106. liebecki. 



aa. Tarsal claws simple; elytra acute at tip and slightly prolonged; sur- 

 face clothed with scale-like hairs. cryptica. 



210."i (fiujO). Glyptoscelis barbata Sa.v, Journ. Phil. .Vcad. Nat. Sci., Y, 

 ls2r,. 296; ibid. II, 341. 

 ( )blong, conve.x, robust. Bronzed, feebly shining ; rather thickly clothed 

 with prostrate reddish-brown hairs; anteuuse and tarsi dull reddish-brown. 

 Thorax narrower than elytra, widest at middle, slightly narrowed at base, 

 coarsel,\' and closel.\' punctured. Elytra tinely and irregularly granulate- 

 punctate. Length 5.5-7.5 mm. 



Southern third of State; scarce. 31ay 16-June 6. (Jccurs on 

 the foliage of ^^ild .urape and hickory. 



G. piibcscen^ Fab., length 8-1J.5 mm., occurs in the "Jliddle 

 States Region." G. erupt ica Say, length 7.5-9 mm., is known from 

 ^Missouri, Kansas and Dakota. 



2106 ( ). Glyptoscelis liebecki sp. ncjv. 



Longer and less convex than harhatux. Reddish- 

 brown, shining, feebly bronzed; thickly clothed aliove and 

 beneath with prostrate, whitish, hair-like scales. Thorax 

 about as broad as long, sides nearly straight, not nar- 

 rowed at base, rather coarsely, closely and deeply punc- 

 tured. Elytra finely and rather densely punctured, the 

 punctures not in rows, the tips not prolonged. Tarsal 

 claws deeply cleft, the inner lobe the shorter. Length 7- 

 9 mm. (Fig. 489.) 



Knox, ^Martin and Posey counties ; scarce, ilay ^^\of^^yj ^■ 

 IG— Jane 9. The thorax is sometimes darker than 

 elytra and the surface is more distinctly bronzed in male than in 

 female. Named in honor of the well-known Coleopterist, Chas. Lie- 

 beck of Philadelphia, Pa., who has shown me many favors during 

 the preparation of this paper. 



