GALERUCINE BEETLES — ^BLAKE , , 81 



orange-brown, the prothorax with a broad piceous spot on each side 

 coming about half way down, elytra piceous with six pale yellow- 

 brown spots and pale margin, legs and undersurface entirely pale and 

 antennae pale with the three distal joints a bit deeper brown in color. 



Head with interocular space about half width of head, alutaceous 

 and finely punctate, a well-marked narrow carina running from be- 

 tween antennal sockets down lower front. Antennae pale with the 

 last three joints brownish. Prothorax approximately one-third 

 wider than long with somewhat rounded sides, disk with a semi- 

 circular transverse depression; alutaceous and distinctly and rather 

 densely punctate; yellow-brown with a broad piceous spot on each 

 side extending just below the middle of pronotum. Scutellum pale. 

 Elytra distinctly alutaceous, and densely and shallowly punctate 

 with a tendency to ridging, producing a semicostate appearance; 

 three large, dull, yellow-brown spots and pale margin on piceous 

 background. Epipleura extending to apical cui*ve; legs and under- 

 surface and last two abdominal segments dorsally entirely pale. 

 Length 7-7.5 mm.; width 3.5-3.7 mm. 



Type: Female, USNM 63355, Territorio Federal Amazonas Randal 

 Salas, Aug. 15, 1951, Exp[edicion] F[ran]co Vene[zolana], Alto Orinoco. 



Other localities: One female from King Frederick William Falls, 

 Couratryne River, Dutch Guiana, J. G. Myers; one female from 

 "Culebra, N. Duida Territory, Amazons, 1950, J. Maldonado Cap- 

 riles"; one female from Bogotd, Colombia. 



Remarks: This is the largest of the sexplagiatum group of beetles, 

 and, unhke the rest, is dull deep orange-brown in its pale markings 

 instead of pale yellow. Unfortunately, no male specimen has been 

 collected. 



Iceloceras flavipes, new species 

 Figure 3,d 



From 5-6.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong, somewhat shiny 

 although distinctly alutaceous; prothorax rather densely punctate, 

 elytra densely punctate with semicostate ridging; head, antennae, 

 legs, and body beneath entirely pale, prothorax with wide piceous 

 spot on each side wider anteriorly and extending nearly entire length ; 

 elytra piceous with three large pale spots on each elytron, the margin 

 pale. 



Head with interocular space about half width of head, shining, pale 

 yellow, the occiput finely punctate, frontal tubercles distinctly 

 marked, a narrow carina running down lower front from between 

 antennal sockets. Antennae entirely pale, 3d joint shorter than 4th. 

 Prothorax about one-third wider than long, with sHghtly rounded 

 sides and semicircular transverse depression; surface shiny, more or 



