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striate punctate; yellow with a black head and breast, brown tibiae and 

 tarsi, the elytra with a wide dark blue fascia in the basal half and 

 another narrower one in the apical half, the intervening pale fascia 

 narrow, the apex and margin pale. 



Head with the interocular space approximately half width of head, a 

 median depression above, frontal tubercles distinct, and a narrow 

 carina down the lower front, occiput smoothly rounded, shining, very 

 finely punctate, entire head black. Antennae with the basal and 

 apical four joints pale. Prothorax wider than long with slightly 

 rounded sides and a transverse sulcus, polished, a few very fine 

 punctures, yellowish brown. Scutellum tan colored. Elytra shining, 

 although faintly alutaceous, with strong geminate striate punctation 

 between the rather feeble costae; a broad steel blue fascia covering 

 basal half of elytra, then a narrow pale yellow fascia and in the apical 

 half another narrower dark blue fascia, the apex and margin pale. 

 Body beneath very lightly pubescent, pale yellow with the breast 

 dark, the femora pale, the tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Length 7.4 

 mm.; width 3.6 mm. 



Type, female, USNM 66847; one female paratype; both from 

 Turrialba, Costa Kica, May 28 and June 5, 1951, respectively, 

 collected by O. L. Cartwright. 



Remarks: The large size and the dark blue fasciae on the elytra 

 readily distinguish this species. I take pleasure in naming it after its 

 collector. 



Neohrotica coeruleolineata Jacoby 



Figure 8 



Neohrotica coeruleolineata Jacoby, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana, Coleoptera, vol. 6, pt, 1, p. 753, 1887. 



Between 5 and 7 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, feebly shining, 

 alutaceous, the elytra strongly, densely and semistriately punctate 

 between the feeble elytral costae, head tending to be dark on occiput, 

 sometimes entirely dark, intermediate joints of the antennae dark, 

 prothorax, legs, body beneath pale, except breast, elytra with a long 

 dark, slightly metallic blue or green vittate marking from the humerus 

 a little way down the side, another from scutellum down the suture a 

 way, a spot before and after the middle, and another lateral vitta at 

 apical curve not joined with the humeral vitta; front tibiae in the 

 male enlarged. 



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

 tubercles somewhat swollen, a median depression above them, a 

 narrow carina running down the lower front, occiput smooth with a 

 few very fine punctm-es, usually the upper half of head deeper in color 

 from tan to piceous, lower front paler, labrum dark, sometimes entire 



