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Head with the interocular space nearly half the width of head, 

 frontal tubercles distinctly marked and with a median depression 

 above them, a distinct carina down the lower front, the occiput finely 

 punctate, entirely shining piceous. Antennae pale. Prothorax some- 

 what wider than long with a transverse sulcus, very finely punctate 

 and finely alutaceous, entirely pale. Scutellum dark. Elytra strongly, 

 densely and semistriately punctate and feebly costate, a broad dark 

 basal fascia with a metallic green lustre extending one-third the length 

 of the elytra and enclosing a small round pale spot in the middle, and 

 at the apex another roundish dark fascia with the apex hollowed out 

 as if the opening of an apical ring. Body beneath pale, except the 

 breast, legs pale. Length 6-8 mm.; width 3.1-3.8 mm. 



Type, ?female, MCZ 30668, from Bugaba, Panama, collected by 

 Champion. 



Other locahties: Porto Bello, Canal Zone, A. Busck, E. A. Schwarz, 

 collectors; Ancon, Canal Zone, A, H. Jennings, collector; El Valle, 

 Canal Zone, N.L.H. Krauss, collector; Cabima, Canal Zone, A. Busck, 

 collector; Muso, Colombia. 



Remarks: Jacoby noted that there was a difference in the interocular 

 space between some of the specimens that he had assigned to the 

 species N. coeruleofasciata, the two from Bugaba having a wider 

 interocular space as well as somewhat different elytral markings. 

 There are other specimens in the U.S. National Museum from the 

 Canal Zone and one from Colombia that resemble the Bugaba speci- 

 mens. They are in general a little larger than A^. coeruleofasciata. 



Neobrotica piceofasciata, new species 



Figure 27 



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

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



About 7 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, shining, the elytra 

 rather coarsely punctate, head dark, thorax pale, elytra pale with a 

 wide piceous basal band and another below the middle; antennae, 

 legs and undersurface except the dark breast, pale. 



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

 occiput polished, finely punctate, tubercles distinctly outlined, a small 

 depression above them; the carina distinct, with punctm'es on either 

 side, head entirely piceous. Antennae pale yellow brown, the terminal 

 joint tipped with piceous. Prothorax with the sides nearly straight, 

 not deeply sulcate across, shining, finely punctate, pale yellow. 

 Scutellum dark. Elytra with distinct short intrahumeral sulcus; 

 punctures strong, tending to be geminate, pale yellow with a broad 

 basal piceous fascia and another below the middle, the apex pale. 



