GALERUCINE BEETLES — BLAKE 239 



large pale spots on disc and two along each lateral margin, middle 

 tibiae of male excised near apex. 



Head pale reddish or yellowish brown, shiny, rounded over the 

 occiput with a median depression above the well-marked frontal 

 tubercles, a narrow carina down lower front on both sides of which 

 the surface is densely and coarsely punctate. Antennae with the 

 thu-d joint a httle shorter than the fourth, rest subequal, brown except 

 for the pale tenth joint. Prothorax a httle wider than long with some- 

 what arcuate sides and a shallow transverse depression, shiny, reddish 

 or yellowish brown. vScutellum pale. Elytra moderately convex, 

 without depressions except the short intrahumeral sulcus, alutaceous 

 and strongly and confusedly punctate, deep piceous, each elytron with 

 three large pale spots, the median being almost a fascia but interrupted 

 at the suture; along the sides of the lateral margin two pale spots. 

 Epipleura vanishing at apical curve. Body beneath pale with the 

 femora for the most part pale with a dark streak above, hind femora 

 dark at apex, tibiae and tarsi dark. Anterior coxal cavities open, claws 

 appendiculate, middle tibiae of male excised near apex, hmd tibiae 

 with spine. Length 4.9-5.5 mm.; width 2.4-2.7 mm. 



Type, male, and female paratype, in Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, 

 Stockholm, Sweden, collected at Manaos, Amazon, Brazil, by Roman. 



Remarks: This species described by Weise as a Neobrotica has 

 excised middle tibiae and falls in the genus THchobrotica. 



Trichobrotica pallida (Jacoby) 



Figure 1 



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

 Coleoptera, voL 6, pt. 1, suppL, p. 335, 1892. 



About 4 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining, almost impunctate, 

 pale yellow with the antennae, tibiae and tarsi and a dark apex or 

 streak on the femora, middle tibiae of the male excised near apex. 

 Head with mterocular space half width of head, occiput smooth, 

 no depression above frontal tubercles, carina short, lower front short. 

 Antennae long, dark and hairy, the third joint a Httle longer than 

 second but much shorter than fourth. Prothorax a little wider than 

 long, sides nearly straight, a well-marked transverse sulcus. Scutel- 

 lum rounded. Elytra wider below the middle, impunctate, with a 

 little depression below the slight basal convexity, and another trans- 

 verse depression below the middle. Body beneath with the anterior 

 coxal cavities open, the middle tibiae excised in the male, the claws 

 appendiculate, entirely pale, the anterior femora with a dark streak 

 above, the hind femora dark at apex, tibiae and tarsi entirely dark. 

 Length 4.2 mm.; width 2 mm. 



Type, male, BMNH, from Panistlahuaca, Mexico, Salle collector. 



