NEOBROTICA AND RELATED GENERA — BLAKE 313 



distinctly alutaceous, finely and rather densely punctate, the punc- 

 tui'es having a tendency to be geminate striate; pale yellow brown 

 with a dark brown or piceous moderately wide humeral vitta curving 

 inwards and connecting with a median spot or vitta, which extends 

 down as far as the sutural vitta, another short vittate mark on the 

 side at apical curve on each elytron. Body beneath pale with the 

 breast dark, legs entirely pale. Length 7 mm.; width 3.5 mm. 



Type, female, MCZ 30667, from Call, Colombia, collected by 

 Rosenberg, September-December 1894. 



Remarks: There is one other specimen from Muso, Colombia, 

 which may be a less heavily marked specimen of the same species. 

 In this the median line does not connect with the humeral vitta. 

 It is also a female. 



Neobrotica ntrilineata, new name 



Figure 57 

 Neobrotica lineigera Bechyne, Ent. Arb. Mus. G. Frey, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 318, 1956. 



Between 5 and 6 mm. in length, oblong oval, faintly shining, aluta- 

 ceous, the elytra finely punctate and with traces of costae along the 

 sides, pale yellow brown with piceous occiput and narrow piceous 

 elytral vittae, one extending from the humerus along the side to apical 

 curve, a shorter one on the disc not reaching the base, and a short 

 sutm-al one from about the scutellum down a little way on the suture. 



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

 tubercles somewhat swollen, a shallow median depression above and a 

 narrow carina down the lower front, surface of occiput alutaceous and 

 finely punctate; upper half of head often to the antennal sockets deep 

 brown to piceous, lower front pale, mouthparts usually dark. An- 

 tennae usually entirely pale, but in one specimen joints five to eight 

 deeper brown. Prothorax nearly as long as wide with slightly curved 

 sides and a transverse sulcus; surface alutaceous and indistinctly and 

 faintly punctate, pale. Scutellum brown. Elytra with traces of 

 lateral costae, alutaceous and finely punctate, pale yellow brown, each 

 elytron with a piceous \ntta extending from the humerus to the apical 

 curve, not reaching the apex, and a shorter median vitta not reaching 

 the base on the disc, and a very short sutural vitta extending from 

 around the scutellum a Httle way down the suture. Body beneath 

 pale with the breast shining piceous, legs entirely pale, a spine on the 

 middle and hind tibiae, first tarsal joint of the male enlarged. Length 

 5.3-6.3 mm.; width 2.8-3.1 mm. 



Type, male, in G. Frey Museum, Tutzing, near INIunich, Germany, 

 from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. 



Other localities: Cochabamba, Bolivia, collected by Germain. 



