NEOBROTICA AND RELATED GENERA — BLAKE 275 



Neobrotica undecimmaculata Jacoby 



Figure 6 



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

 Americana, CJoleoptera, vol. 6, pt. 1, p. 575, 1887. 



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

 alutaceous, the elytra finely and not densely pmictate, head on top, 

 tibiae, tarsi, and breast piceous, elj^tra with reddish brown to piceous 

 spots on the humeri, two transversely across elytron before the middle 

 and two after the middle. 



Head vnth. the interocular space about half the width of the head, 

 occiput shiny piceous, very minutely punctate, a median depression 

 above the well-marked frontal tubercles, carina down front, lower 

 front to labrum which is dark, pale reddish brown. Antennae with 

 the three basal and three apical joints pale, the rest dark brown. 

 Prothorax not twice as broad as long with a transverse sulcus most 

 marked at the sides; sides nearly straight, sm-face finely punctate, 

 pale. Scutellum either reddish browm or piceous. Elytra finely 

 alutaceous and unusually finely punctate, A\ith two or three feeble 

 lateral costae, pale mth reddish brown to piceous markings, the spots 

 small and located as above ; on the British Museum specimen a dark 

 area about the scutellum and extending a little way down the suture, 

 the specimen in the Bowditch collection without this. Body beneath 

 pale with the breast dark; tibiae and tarsi dark, femora pale. Length 

 5.7 mm.; width 2.9 mm. 



Type, male, MCZ; one female paratype, BAINH; both from Jalapa, 

 Mexico, collected by Hoge. 



Other locality: Xilitla, Mexico, Dreisbach, Julyj23, 1954, Monrds 

 collection, USNM. 



Remarks: The dark head and unusually fine punctation of the 

 elytra distinguish this species from many others with similar markings. 



Neobrotica schausi, new species 



Figure 5 



About 6.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, faintly shining and 

 faintly alutaceous, the elytra with costae most marked in the middle of 

 the elytra, finely punctate; pale yellow brown, somewhat deeper in 

 color over the occiput but not at all piceous, the elytra with small 

 reddish-brown humeral spot, two small spots before and two after the 

 middle of each elytron, body beneath entirely pale. 



Head with interocular space less than half width of head, a small 

 median depression over the well-marked frontal tubercles and a short 

 carina down the short lower front, occiput of head a shade deeper in 

 color than the lower front but not at all piceous. Antennae with the 



