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five to eight deeper in coloring; elytra with a wide blue fascia at the 

 base and another large roundish area near the apex which is excavate 

 at the apical end. 



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

 occiput shining, impunctate, carina narrow, not much elevated, with 

 punctures on the lower front, and a depression above the frontal 

 tubercles. Antennae pale yellow with joints five to eight deeper 

 brown. Prothorax with the sides only slightly rounded, a sulcus 

 across, alutaceous and finely punctate, pale yellow. Scutellum dark. 

 Elytra with a wide dark blue basal fascia and a large rounded spot 

 below the middle on each elytron joined at the suture; punctation 

 dense and semistriate, with faint costae. Body beneath pale except 

 for the dark piceous breast, legs entirely pale. Length 5.7 mm.; 

 width 2.8 mm. 



Type, male, BMNH; one paratype; both from Caldera, Panama, 

 collected by Champion; two others from the Volcan de Chiriqui, also 

 collected by Champion. 



Remarks: In the British Museum are four specimens, two from 

 Caldera, two from the Volcan de Chiriqui, that are of the same species. 

 Jacoby listed under N. coeruleqfasciata other specimens from Bugaba 

 and Tole that are not the same. He appeared doubtful about these 

 as he noted that the space between the eyes was different. These are 

 described under A^. conjusa and N. piceofasciata. 



There are several specimens from Costa Rica that may be of this 

 species also, although the markings are somewhat different in two of 

 the three. In the Bowditch collection is a specimen from San Carlos, 

 Costa Rica, collected by Schild and Burgdorf and also one in the U.S. 

 National Museum of the same label, and another from Bataan, Costa 

 Rica, collected by M. Stelzer; one of the San Carlos specimens and the 

 Bataan specimen have only the outer half of the elytron covered with 

 a dark violaceous spot. Otherwise these appear to be like Jacoby's 

 coeruleqfasciata. 



Neobrotica confusa, new species 



Figure 21 



Neobrotica coeruleofasciata Jacoby (in part), in Godman and Salvin, Biologia 

 Centrali-Americana, Coleoptera, vol. 6, pt. 1, p. 575, 1887. 



About 7 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, moderately shiny 

 although alutaceous, elytra with numerous feeble costae, distinctly 

 and irregularly striate punctate, head and breast dark, antennae, 

 pronotum, legs and rest of undersurface yellow; the elytra yeUow 

 with a broad dark basal fascia having metallic blue or green lustre 

 and sometimes enclosing a small pale spot; another broad fascia near 

 the apex that is sometimes lunate; sometimes these fasciae represented 

 only by a lunate basal and apical marking. 



