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Guiana, collected by W. Schaiis; San Rafael, Trinidad, collected by 

 Adamson; Caucagua, Venezuela, on cacao, collected by Ed. Miranda; 

 Caracas, Venezuela. 



Remarks: The distinguishing mark of this species is the elongated 

 spot extending from the humerus down the side of the elytron, which 

 is broken into two spots in N. oblongopunctata (Jacoby). 



Neobrotica comma Bechyne 



FiGUBE 50 



Neobrotica comma Bechyne, Ent. Arb. Mus. G. Frey, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 316, 1956. 

 heohrotica comma ssp. additionalis. — Bechyne, Ent. Arb. Mus. G. Frey, vol. 7, 

 no. 1, p. 317, 1965. 



From 6 to 7.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, somewhat shiny, 

 although alutaceous, the elytra very finely punctate and with traces 

 of costae, pale yellow brown, the head piceous to antennal sockets, 

 lower front pale, mouthparts dark; legs and antennae pale, breast 

 dark; elytra with dark humeri, a narrow dark area about scutellum 

 and dark a little way down the suture, on each elytron two subapical 

 dark spots, one on the side, one in the middle; front tibiae and first 

 tarsal joint of the male enlarged. 



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

 alutaceous and very finely punctate, a median depression over the 

 frontal tubercles, carina only visible a short way down lower front, 

 the lower front pale, mouthparts and occiput dark. Antennae entirely 

 pale. Prothorax somewhat wider than long with slightly curved sides 

 and a transverse sulcus, shining, very finely punctate, pale yeUow 

 brown. Scutellum tan colored. Elytra finely alutaceous and dis- 

 tinctly and densely punctate, the punctation tending to be striate 

 and with traces of four or five costae on each elytron, more apparent 

 in the male; pale yellow with elongate piceous markings, sometimes 

 with a greenish lustre, over the humeri, about the scutellimi and down 

 the suture and two elongate dark spots near the apex, one on the side 

 and the other near the middle of each elytron. Body beneath pale 

 except the shiny piceous breast, legs entirely pale. Length 6-7.5 mm. ; 

 width 3-3.5 mm. 



Tj^pe, female, in G. Frey Museum, from Coroica, BoHvia. 



Other localities: Yimgas, tropical region, Chapare, 4000 m., Bolivia, 

 collected by Zischka and E. W. Reitter; Cochabamba, Bohvia, col- 

 lected by Germain; Huallaga, Tocache, Peru, collected by C. A. Baer; 

 Monson Valley, Tingo Alaria, Peru, October-December 1954, collected 

 by E. I, Schlinger and E. S. Ross; Valley Chanchamayo, Peru, 800 m., 

 collected by Weyrauch, August 1951; Colombia, Rio Jimtes, Brazil. 



Remarks: In Bechyne's subspecies of this genus, additionalis, de- 

 scribed from specimens from Callanga, Peru, there is another line in 



