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wide dark brown basal fascia extending along the side, and enclosing 

 a round pale median spot, suture narrowly dark and below the middle 

 another narrower irregular fascia extending along the side and down 

 the suture and almost connecting with the basal fascia along the 

 side. Body beneath and femora pale yellow brown; breast, tibiae 

 and tarsi dark; front tibiae and first tarsal joint in the male thick- 

 ened, middle and hind tibiae with spine. Length 6.5 mm.; width 

 3.2 mm. 



Type, male, BMNH, from Guatemala. 



Kemarks: The two cliief characteristics of this species differentiating 

 it from others are the coarse, dense elytral punctation and the 

 dark brown color pattern on the elytra. The face is shorter than that 

 of N. hondurensis Jacoby. 



Neohrotlca modesta Jacoby 



Figure 35 



Neobrotica modesta Jacoby, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia Centrali-Americana, 

 Coleoptera, vol. 6, pt. 1, p. 579, 1887. 



Between 5 and 6 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, faintly shin- 

 ing, alutaceous, the elytra with feeble costae, occiput of head, tibiae 

 and tarsi piceous, breast a little deeper brown, rest pale yellow brown. 



Head with interocular space half width of head, occiput shining, 

 piceous, finely punctate, a median depression over frontal tubercles, 

 lower front with a narrow carina, entirely dark. Antennae with the 

 basal two and apical three joints pale, rest deep brown. Pro thorax 

 not twice as wide as long with slightly curved sides, shining, very 

 finely punctate^ the transverse depression most marked at the ends, 

 very shallow in the middle. Scutellum a little deeper yellow than 

 elytra. Elytra faintly alutaceous, not very shiny, with three or four 

 feeble costae, distinctly but not densely punctate, the punctures 

 tending to be striate, entirely pale. In one specimen in the British 

 Museum the elytra with a dark humeral spot. Body beneath pale, 

 the breast a little darker brown and deep brown in one specimen, 

 femora pale, tibiae and tarsi dark brown, almost piceous. Length 

 5-6.5 mm.; width 3-3.4 mm. 



Type, female, MCZ; one para type, female, BMNH; both from 

 Tuxtla, Mexico, collected by Salle. There is another specimen in 

 the British Museum, determined by Jacoby, from "Mexico." 



Remarks: This species has much the same coloration as N. in- 

 constans Jacoby from Venezuela, but the elytral bare lines found in 

 inconstans are not so marked. In the Mexican female specimen 

 (without definite locality), the head has pale frontal tubercles and a 

 pale lower front and there is a dark humeral spot on the elytra. 



