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Remarks: In 1887 Jacoby described a Neobrotica linigera from 

 Panama, a quite different species from the one Bechyne described from 

 Bolivia as N. lineigera in 1956. Also different from either is a species 

 that Bechyne described in 1958 as N. lineigera from Brazil. The name 

 lineigera is essentially the same as linigera, and according to rules of 

 zoological nomenclature, article 58, no. 2, it should not stand as dis- 

 tinct, Bowditch had attached the manuscript name atrilineata to this 

 species in a series in his collection from Cochabamba. It differs from 

 N. oberthiiri in having pale legs as well as a narrower prothorax. 

 There are also traces of elytral costae in this species which are not 

 present in N. oberthiiri. 



Neobrotica flavoUmbata, new species 



Figure 62 



About 7 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, dull, alutaceous, the 

 elytra strongly punctate with a tendency to being striate, yellow 

 brown, the elytra mostly piceous with a narrow pale fascia below the 

 middle, the margin and apex pale; legs, antennae and the body be- 

 neath entirely pale. 



Head with the interocular space approximately half the width of 

 head, a median depression above the rather poorly defined frontal 

 tubercles, occiput finely punctate, a narrow carina down the front, on 

 either side of which the surface is wrinkled, pale yellow brown with 

 the labrum piceous. Antennae pale except for the dark brown tip of 

 the apical joint. Prothorax with slightly rounded sides and a trans- 

 verse shallow groove, finely punctate, entirely pale yellow brown. 

 Scutellum pale. Elytra widened below the middle, alutaceous, not 

 shiny, punctation strong and tending to be striate, with faint traces of 

 costae, a few scattered hairs along the sides; a broad piceous basal and 

 an apical fascia separated narrowly by a pale fascia below the middle, 

 the margins and apex pale. Body beneath and legs entirely pale. 

 Anterior coxal cavities open, claws appendiculate, a spine at the end of 

 middle and hind tibiae. Length 7.4 mm.; width 3.7 mm. 



Type, female, BMNH, Baly collection, from Merida (no label for 

 country) . 



Remarks: The unusual elytral coloring of this species differentiates 

 it from any of the others without strong elytral costae. 



Neobrotica hepatica Bechyne 



Figure 51 

 Neobrotica hepatica Bechyne, Ent. Arb. Mus. G. Frey, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 597, 1958. 



Between 6 and 7 mm. in length, oblong oval, somewhat shiny, faintly 

 alutaceous, the elytra distinctly punctate, pale yellow with a reddish 

 brown occiput and two broad reddish brown elytral fasciae interrupted 



