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side of the elytra, in one specimen almost connecting with a spot at 

 apical curve, a shorter narrow suturual vitta below the scutellum, and 

 a small median spot before and one after the middle on each elytron. 

 Body beneath pale with the breast dark, legs pale, the tibiae usually 

 with a dark streak. Length 6.8-7.2 mm.; width 3-3.6 mm. 



Type, male, USNM 66842; three paratypes (one in MCZ), all from 

 Tucurrique, Costa Rica, collected by Schild and Bergdorf. 



Other localities: Turrialba, Costa Rica, May 21, 22, 1951, and 

 June 19, 1951, O. L. Cartwright, collector. 



Remarks : E. A. Schwarz has labeled specimens in the U.S. National 

 Museum as A^. coeruleolineata Jacoby, but N. trichops differs from that 

 species in having no apical side vitta, and having dark tibiae as well 

 as a differently shaped aedeagus. The elytra are longer and the head 

 is usually paler than in N. coeruleolineata. 



Neobrotica oberthiiri (Baly) 



Figures 16, 17, 18 



DiabroHca oberthiiri Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 452, 1886. 



Neobrotica oberthiiri (Baly). — Jacoby, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia Centrali- 



Americana, Coleoptera, vol. 6, pt. 1, p. 575, 1887; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



p. 286, 1889. 



About 7 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, shiny, the sulcus across 

 the pronotum not very well defined in the middle, the elytra moder- 

 ately, densely and strongly punctate, not at all costate, pale yellow 

 with a black head and breast, dark tibiae and tarsi and intermediate 

 joints of the antennae, and dark vittae or remnants of vittae on the 

 elytra. 



Head with the interocular space about half width of head, a depres- 

 sion above the frontal tubercles, occiput shining piceous and finely 

 punctate, the tubercles, carina and much of the lower face brownish, 

 the neck below yellow. Antennae pale with joints four to eight dark. 

 Prothorax with slightly rounded sides, the transverse sulcus more 

 distinct on the sides; surface shining, punctate, pale yellow. Scutel- 

 lum piceous. Elytra without a trace of costae, densely and confusedly 

 punctate with a tendency to being striate in some specimens; pale 

 yellow usually with a lateral vitta from the humerus nearly to the apex, 

 this may be broken so only a short humeral and apical vitta remain, 

 the same being true of the median vitta, and the sutural often consist- 

 ing only of a short basal and apical darkening. Body beneath pale 

 with the breast dark, the femora pale, tibiae and tarsi dark. Length 

 6.8 mm.; width 3.3 mm. 



Type, female, BMNH, Baly collection, without locality label 

 (although in his description, Baly gives the locality simply as 

 Guatemala) . 



