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Type, female, USNM 66849, taken on a Bromeliad at Laredo, 

 Texas (port of entry), January 19. 



Remarks: The locality from which this species comes is unknown 

 as the single specimen was intercepted on entry into the United 

 States at Laredo, Texas, of a shipment from south of Texas. It 

 differs from the other large pale species with spots in that there is no 

 humeral spot and the scutellum, tibiae and tarsi are dark. 



Neohrotica quinquepunctata (Jacoby) 



Figure 41 



Diabrotica quinquepunctata Jacoby, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana, Coleoptera, vol. 6, pt. 1, p. 557, 1887. 



About 7.5 mm, in length, elongate oblong oval, alutaceous, only 

 feebly shining, the elytra with dense, shallow and rather coarse 

 punctm-es, often contiguous; traces of costae, paler yellow brown with 

 intermediate antennal joints a shade deeper and on the elytra ten 

 small piceous spots. 



Head with interocular space half width of head, a median depression 

 above the clearly marked frontal tubercles, carina down front strong 

 and not very long, head entu-ely pale. Antennae with basal four and 

 apical three joints a little paler than intermediate ones, third antennal 

 joint about equal to fourth. Prothorax with a deep transverse sulcus, 

 sides rounded, surface feebly shining, a few punctures, pale yellow 

 brown. Scutellum piceous. Elytra a little wider apically, densely, 

 closely, and shallowly pmictate, punctures not at all striate, often 

 contiguous; faint traces of costae; pale yellow brown with a small dark 

 humeral spot, two small spots before the middle, one lateral, the other 

 median, and two spots after the middle in a line across, on each elytron. 

 Body beneath and legs entirely pale, anterior coxal cavities open, the 

 claws appendiculate although the inner tooth is longer and more 

 slender than usual. Length 7.5 mm,; width 3.6 mm. 



Type, female; two paratypes; all in Bowditch collection, MCZ, 

 from Capetillo, Guatemala, collected by Champion, 1st Jacoby 

 collection. 



Remarks: Jacoby wrote that the "claws (were) bifid, the inner 

 division rather short," but they are not bifid to the extent that is 

 found in Diabrotica; the inner tooth, although unusually long and 

 slender, is not nearly as long as the outer one. This clearly belongs to 

 the group of large pale spotted species, and in its spotted elytral 

 markings most resembles N. pentaspilota; but that species lacks the 

 dark humeral spot and has darkened tibiae and tarsi, N. septem- 

 maculata has a dark head and more closely set eyes. 



