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terminal joints missing, the basal joints a little paler than the reddish 

 brown outer joints, third and fom-th joints subequal. Prothorax with 

 a transverse sulcus, surface alutaceous, finely pmictate. ScuteUum 

 deeper reddish brown. Elytra with distinct costae, more marked 

 from the middle to the side, punctation fine and confused ; surface alu- 

 taceous; elytra pale yellow brown, each with five small reddish-brown 

 spots, one on the humerus, one below on the side before the middle 

 and the second lateral one near the apical curve, opposite this and 

 near the suture two other spots. Body beneath entirely pale, the 

 tibiae and tarsi a deeper reddish brown, front tibiae and first tarsal 

 joint of male enlarged. Length 6.5 mm.; width 3.2 mm. 



Type, male, AMNH, from Jalapa, Mexico, collected by W. Schaus. 



Remarks: Possibly some specimens have a piceous head and piceous 

 elytral spots, but the single male known appears to be a mature speci- 

 men and differs from N. undecimmaculata Jacoby in having a pale head 

 and breast and a narrower interocular space. Both are from Jalapa, 

 Mexico. 



Neobrotica noumenia, new species 



Figure 3 



Between 6.5 and 7.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, moderately 

 shiny although feebly alutaceous, the elytra strongly and densely 

 punctate, and feebly costate; pale yellow with dark upper half of head 

 and dark mouthparts, entirely pale legs and antennae and brown 

 breast, elytra with a dark humeral spot and narrow transverse fascia 

 below, a narrow dark sutural line a little below scutellmn, and a slender 

 semilunate dark mark near apex, these dark markings sometimes with 

 a purphsh lustre. 



Head with interocular space less than half width of head, shiny 

 piceous over occiput, pale in lower front with the mouthparts dark, 

 very finely punctate, the frontal tubercles distinct and a median 

 depression above them, a narrow carina down lower front. Antennae 

 entuely pale yellow. Prothorax only a fittle wider than long with 

 slightly rounded sides and a transverse sulcus, very finely alutaceous, 

 entuely pale yellow. ScuteUum tan colored. Elytra with costate 

 wrinkling, densely and distinctly punctate and with a tendency to being 

 geminate striate punctate, faintly alutaceous ; a piceous or deep purplish 

 marking on humerus, a transverse fascia not quite across the elytron, 

 interrupted at the sutiue, and a short narrow sutural vitta, also a 

 narrow semilunate mark near apex. Body beneath entirely pale 

 except brownish breast, legs pale, a spine on middle and hind tibiae. 

 Length 6.7-7.5 mm.; width 3.3-3.7 mm. 



Type, female, MCZ 30665; one female paratype, USNM; both 

 from Cuernavaca, Mexico. One specimen from Cuernavaca, Aug. 30, 

 1944, on Eupatorium adenophorum, collected by N.L.H. Krauss. 



