NEOBROTICA AND RELATED GENERA — BLAKE 297 



alutaceous, entii-ely pale. Body beneath entirely pale, femora pale, 

 tibiae and tarsi deep brown, front, middle and hind tibiae with spine. 

 Length 5.5-7 mm.; width 2.6-3.8 mm. 



Type, female; one paratype, female; both Bowditch collection 

 MCZ; two paratypes, females, BMNH; all from Rio Hondo, British 

 Honduras, collected by Blancaneau. 



Remarks: This species differs from the entirely pale species 

 Neobrotica semicostata Jacoby, in having a dark head and darker 

 tibiae and tarsi. All specimens examined are females and present a 

 uniform appearance. 



Neobrotica inconspicua Jacoby 



Figure 40 



Neobrotica inconspicua Jacoby, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana, Coleoptera, vol. G, pt. 1, p. 576, 1887. 



About 7K mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, the elytra wider 

 behind, faintly costate and rather densely and finely punctate, 

 entirely pale above except for the reddish brown scutellum; the an- 

 tennae, breast, tibiae and tarsi also reddish brown. 



Head with the interocular space half width of head, frontal tubercles 

 not prominent, a depression above with dense fine punctures in it, 

 occiput sparsely and finely punctate, carina short and broad. An- 

 tennae with only five basal joints remaining, the first joint pale, the 

 rest reddish brown. Prothorax with rounded sides and a transverse 

 sulcus, pale, impunctate. Scutellum reddish brown. Elytra widened 

 below the middle, very faintly costate, a well marked intrahumeral 

 sulcus, the punctures not coarse but dense and confused. Body 

 beneath pale, shiny, very lightly pubescent, breast pale reddish 

 brown; legs pale with the tibiae and tarsi pale reddish brown. Length 

 7.8 mm.; width 4.2 mm. 



Type, female, BMNH, from Cerro de Plumas, Mexico, collected 

 by Hoge. 



Remarks: Only one specimen, the type, is known of this large pale 

 species. As Jacoby wrote in his description, "the lower five joints of 

 the antennae are piceous, the rest broken off." It is not so costate 

 as A^. semicostata Jacoby, also from Mexico. 



Neobrotica decimsignata, new species 



Figure 38 



Between 8 and 10 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, not shining, 

 alutaceous, the elytra densely and confusedly punctate, not at all 

 costate, pale yellow brown with the intermediate joints of the antennae 

 darker, the elytra with ten dark spots, sometimes the two near the 

 hmnerus confluent. 



