NEOBROTICA AND RELATED GENERA — BLAKE 303 



the suture joining with the transverse fascia, in other specimens a 

 complete loose ring of these dark markings; at the apex, the piceous 

 marks semilunate and more or less connected. Body beneath pale 

 with the breast shining dark brown or piceous; legs entirely pale, 

 middle and hind tibiae with a spine, anterior coxal cavities open, claws 

 appendiculate. Length 6-7.5 mm.; width 3.2-3.7 mm. 



Type, female, MCZ 30664, from Corozal, Venezuela. 



Other localities : El Valle, D.F., Venezuela, on Zea mays Linnaeus, H. 

 Perez, collector; Huila, Colombia, B. Losadas, collector; Rio Dagua, 

 Colombia, W. Rosenberg, collector. 



Remarks: Although only female specimens have been examined, 

 the writer believes the species is distinct from A^". variabilis, the type of 

 which comes from Jalapa, Mexico. These beetles differ from the 

 Mexican ones in the color of the legs and antennae which in the 

 Mexican species are more or less dark. Both species have similar 

 elytral markings but these markings are common to many species of 

 the genus. 



Neobrotica colombiensis, new species 



Figure 63 



Between 6 and 7 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, faintly shining, 

 alutaceous, the elytra finely punctate, pale yellowish brown, the occi- 

 put of the head deeper brown, antennae pale with the intermediate 

 joints deep brown; elytra with piceous spots, one on the humerus, a 

 narrow dark edging about the scutellum and down the suture a little 

 way, on each elytron a transverse spot not reaching the suture before 

 the middle, and two spots after the middle, one on the side, one in the 

 middle; legs pale, body beneath pale with the breast dark. 



Head with the interocular space not quite half width of head, occiput 

 alutaceous and finely punctate, a brown spot, sometimes widening to 

 cover the occiput down to the frontal tubercles, from tubercles to 

 mouthparts yellow brown, mouthparts tending to be brownish, a 

 median depression over the frontal tubercles, a short, well defined 

 carina down lower front. Antennae with the basal four joints yellow- 

 ish brown, joints five to eight deep brown, nine to eleven pale yellow, 

 tip of apical joint dark. Prothorax somewhat wider than long with 

 nearly straight sides and a shallow transverse depression, surface 

 alutaceous and finely punctate, entirely pale. Scutellum dark brown 

 or piceous. Elytra wider in lower half, feebly shining, alutaceous and 

 finely punctate, pale ^''ellow brown with a piceous spot on the humerus, 

 a narrow piceous edging about scutellum and down the suture a short 

 way, on each elytron a transverse fascia or spot from near the margin, 

 not reaching the suture, before the middle, and two spots near the 

 apex, one near the margin, and the other larger and median. In 

 some fresh specimens there is a deeper orange coloring in the apical 



