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half of the elytra. Body beneath pale with the breast piceous; legs 

 entirely pale, in one specimen the front tibiae with a dark streak, 

 middle and hind tibiae with a spine, front tibiae in the male somewhat 

 stouter. Length 6.1 mm.; width 3.3-3.5 mm. 



Type, female, USNM 67136, from 3 miles north of Villacencia, Meta, 

 Colombia, 92 m., collected March 11, 1955, by E. I. Schhnger and 

 E. S. Ross. 



Other localities: Bogota; Cayenne, Venezuela. 



Remarks: The markings of this species resemble those of many of 

 the small and usually costate species. This is one of the larger species 

 with little trace of costae on the elytra. 



Neobrotica meridensis, new species 



Figure 53 



About 6.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, dull, not at all 

 shiny, the elytra coarsely and densely punctate, faintly costate in 

 some specimens, pale yellow brown with reddish brown to piceous 

 elytral markings, the breast a little more brownish. 



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

 eyes prominent, tubercles clearly marked with a well defined median 

 depression over them, occiput densely punctate about this depression, 

 carina clearly distinct down the front, occiput often tan colored or 

 even darker, lower front pale, labrum usually piceous. Antennae 

 pale but in some darker specimens becoming brownish towards apex. 

 Prothorax with the sides nearly straight, the transverse sulcus not 

 deep in most specimens, most clearly defined at the ends, surface 

 alutaceous and finely punctate, pale yellow. Scutellum pale. Elytra 

 with a short intrahumeral sulcus; in some specimens traces of costae 

 with the punctatiou between tending to be geminate, and rather 

 coarse; surface dull, not at all shiny, pale yellow with deep brown 

 to piceous markings that are variable in extent, in the most heavily 

 marked specimens with nearly a circle in the basal half, and a lunate 

 shaped mark opening towards the apex in apical half; these marks 

 present in a lesser degree, sometimes consisting only of a humeral 

 spot and a spot in the middle at base and another near the apex 

 on each elytron. Body beneath usually with the breast a little 

 browner, legs entirely pale. Length 6-7.4 mm.; width 2.8-3.7 mm. 



Type: male; eight paratypes; Bowditch collection, USNM 66844, 

 all from Merida, Venezuela; two paratypes, MCZ; two paratypes, 

 BMNH; these probably of the same series as Bowditch, who may 

 have had these from the Jacoby collection. One specimen in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology is very pale with some of the spots 

 missing, and this was placed under A'^. dimidiaticornis. 



