NEOBROTICA AND RELATED GENERA — BLAKE 281 



Body beneath pale with the breast dark, legs entirely pale. Length 

 7 mm.; width 3.5 mm. 



Type, female, BMNH, from Tole, Panama, collected by Champion. 



Remarks: This is one of the specimens under A^. coeruleofasciata 

 Jacoby in the British Museum collection. A^. piceofasciata is, how- 

 ever, a distinct species, differing from coeruleofasciata in several points: 

 the space between the eyes is less, the antennae are shorter and en- 

 tirely pale, except for the tip, in contrast to the bicolored ones of 

 coeruleofasciata. In addition, the elytral markings are piceous, 

 without metallic lustre, and the beetle is larger and without costae. 

 The apical spot on the elytra is not at all emarginate at the lower end. 



Neohrotica zonata, new species 



Figure 22 



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

 distinctly but not deeply costate, the interspaces with geminate 

 striate punctation; pale yellow with a piceous head, and the elytra 

 with a wide deep blue basal fascia having in the middle of each 

 elytron a small pale spot, and a curved dark blue fascia before the 

 apex, the antennae, legs and undersurface except the piceous breast, 

 pale. 



Head with interocular space about half width of head, occiput 

 smooth, shining, a median depression over the frontal tubercles and a 

 fovea on either side, a narrow carina down lower front, head shining 

 black. Antennae with only eight joints, the rest missing, pale yellow 

 brown. Prothorax not quite twice as broad as long with rounded 

 sides, a distinct transverse sulcus, surface with a few fine punctures, 

 faintly alutaceous, pale yellow, shining. Scutellum pale. Elytra 

 wider in apical half, strongly but not deeply costate, the costae not 

 much raised but smooth and broad, the interstices with rather coarse 

 geminate striate punctures, surface finely alutaceous but shining; 

 markings of deep violet blue, a basal fascia with a pale spot in the 

 middle and an apical one, somewhat curved, near the apical end, 

 apex pale. Body beneath and the neck of the head pale, but the 

 breast shining piceous, legs entirely pale. Length 7 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Type, female, BMNH, from Guatemala. 



Remarks: Jacoby has attached a label to this "?omato". It is 

 with markings and coloration somewhat similar to N. ornata, but the 

 elytra are more costate. 



Neohrotica cartwrighti, new species 



Figure 25 



About 7.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, shining, the elytra 

 distinctly but not strongly costate with the intervals densely geminate 



