GALERUCINE BEETLES — BLAKE: 87 



About 4 mm. in length, elongate oblong, shining, the elytra strongly 

 and densely punctate, pale yellow brown VN^ith brown antennae having 

 three apical joints pale; pronotum with a dark brown vitta on each 

 side, elytra with a broad median dark brown vitta, apex of femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi deeper brown. 



Head shining, entirely pale brown, with well-marked frontal 

 tubercles and carina extending down lower front. Antennae very 

 long and slender, 3d joint half as long as 4th, brown with the three 

 terminal joints pale. Pronotum a little broader than long with nearly 

 straight sides, only shallowly depressed on each side in lower half; 

 shining, impunctate, pale yellow-brown with a wide dark brown vitta 

 on each side extending nearly the entire length. Scutellum pale. 

 Elytra narrow and long, with small humeral prominences, densely 

 and strongly punctate; pale 3^ellow brown with a broad median dark 

 brown vitta on each, wider at base and curving inwards toward the 

 suture near apex. A few scattered hau's near apex of elytra. Body 

 beneath entirely pale, femora with dark streak or apex dark, tibiae 

 and tarsi deep brown. Anterior coxal cavities open, tibiae with ter- 

 minal spine, first tarsal joint on hind legs about equal to remaining 

 joints together, middle tibiae of male very deeply excised, claws 

 appendiculate. Length 3.8-4.4 mm.; width 1.7-1.8 mm. 



Type localities: Panama: Bugaba, Volcdn de Chu-iqui, Boquete, 

 Caldera, collected by Champion. 



Remarks: This is another species described as a Diabroiica that 

 has appendiculate claws and in the male deeply excised middle tibiae. 

 It belongs near the Iceloceras sexplagiaium group. 



Iceloceras hiplagiatum, new species 



Figure 5,e 



About 5 mm. in length, narrowly oblong oval, head and prothorax 

 smooth and shining, elytra densely and coarsely punctate and with 

 faint median costae, prothorax with semicircular transverse depression; 

 pale yellow with head from tubercles upwards piceous, antennae 

 piceous except the two pale distal joints, the tips of these being dark, 

 prothorax pale with a large median dark spot, elytra piceous with 

 pale margin and a roundish pale median spot on each elytron, body 

 beneath with breast and abdomen brown, femora dark on upper 

 side and at apex on posterior femora, tibiae and tarsi piceous, middle 

 tibiae of male with notch near apex. 



Head with intcrocular space about half width of head, eyes large, 

 antcnnal sockets contiguous, tubercles distinctly marked, a shallow 

 semicircular depression above tubercles, this upper portion of head 

 shining piceous and finely punctate, below antennal sockets the front 



