GALERUCINE BEETLES — BLAKE 257 



Deuterobrotica bechynei, new name 



Figure 22 



Neohrotica lineigera Bechyne (not Bechyne 1956, not Jacoby 1887), Ent. Arb. 

 G. Frey Mus., vol. 9, no. 2, p. 600, 1958. 



About 6 mm. in length, oblong oval, shining, the elytra with rather 

 rugose punctation, pale with dark antennae and legs and dark under- 

 surface, two small dark spots at base of head and dark elytra having 

 a pale sutm-al vitta and a pale median vitta extending to apical curve 

 and a pale margin. 



Head with the interocular space more than half its width, occiput 

 broad, a shallow depression above the well-marked tubercles, carina 

 very short, barely reaching below the antennal sockets; occiput tan 

 colored with two small dark vittate spots on either side of base, the 

 front becoming paler, labrum piceous. Antennae long and slender 

 and entirely dark in female. Prothorax approximately twice as 

 broad as long with the lateral margin visible its entire length when 

 viewed from above, the sides nearly straight, the transverse sulcus well 

 marked, entirely pale. Scutellum reddish brown. Elytra alutaceous, 

 but shiny, with large dense shallow punctiu-es forming somewhat short 

 rugose transverse ridges; pale yellow with a wide piceous lateral 

 vitta united three-quarters of the way down with a broad median vitta 

 of irregular shape, the margin and suture being pale. Body beneath 

 and legs entirely dark except the pale trochanters; anterior coxal 

 cavities open, claws appendiculate. Length 5.8 mm. 



Type, female, from Santa Catarina, Brazil, in G. Frey Museiun, 

 Tutzing bei Miinchen, Germany. 



Remarks: Bechyne has described two different species under the 

 name Neohrotica lineigera within two years of each other. The second 

 species was pubhshed in 1958. Jacoby has abeady described a 

 Neohrotica linigera in 1887 (Biol. Cent. Amer. Coleopt., vol. 6, pt. 1, 

 p. 574, 1887), a quite different species from either of Bechyne's two 

 lineigeras. The name lineigera is essentially the same as linigera and 

 according to the rules of zoological nomenclatm-e, art. 58, no. 2, it 

 should not stand as distinct. Therefore I am renaming the first 

 species of Bechyne's as Neohrotica atrilineata, which is a manuscript 

 name attached by Bowditch to specimens of this species. The second 

 species described by Bechyne in 1958 (Ent. Ai'b. vol. 9, no. 2, p. 600, 

 1958), from a female specimen which is not a Neohrotica but a Deutero- 

 hrotica, I am naming D. bechynei. 



Bechyne in keying out this species distinguishes it and Neohrotica 

 latifrons from Deuterohrotica amplicomis by the fact that the terminal 

 joints of the antennae are not thickened. He overlooks the fact that 

 both latifrons and hechynei were described from single females, and the 



