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at the suture and each vnth. a median pale spot, a narrow pale yellow 

 fascia between them; body beneath reddish brown with deeper brown 

 to piceous shadings in the middle of the abdomen and breast, femora 

 deep brown to piceous. 



Head with interocular space fully half width of head, smoothly 

 rounded over occiput, shining, finely punctate, a median depression 

 above the frontal tubercles, a narrow carina down lower front; upper 

 part of head tan colored, lower half pale yellow; mouthparts tipped 

 with brown. Antennae entirely pale. Prothorax much wider than 

 long but not twice as wide, and with curved sides, a shallow transverse 

 sulcus, in some specimens only an oblique depression on either side; 

 very indistinctly punctate, pale yellow sometimes with a faint brown 

 spot in the middle at base. Scutellum tan colored. Elytra pale with 

 a broad reddish brown basal and an apical fascia having pale median 

 spot on each elytron, the first fascia not reaching the base and the 

 apical one not reaching the apex, leaidng the margins and suture pale 

 and a narrow pale fascia between the tan colored ones below the middle. 

 Body beneath tan colored with darker, often piceous, shadings on the 

 side of the breast and middle of the abdomen and metasternum. 

 Femora deep brown or piceous and usually pale at the apex ; tibiae and 

 tarsi pale, middle and hind tibiae with spine, front coxal cavities open, 

 claws appendiculate. Length 5.7-7.2 mm.; width 3.1-3.6 mm. 



Type, female; one paratype; both in G. Frey Museum, Tutzing, 

 near Munich, Germany, from Rio Huallaga, Tingo Maria, Peru. 



Other localities: A large series of this species in the California 

 Academy of Sciences, was taken by E. I. Schlinger and E. S. Ross in 

 the Monzon Valley, Tingo Maria, Peru, Sept. 21, 1954, and another 

 series in the U.S. National Museum was also taken at Tingo Maria by 

 J. Dieguez in October 1949, on Erythrina. 



Remarks: The unusual color pattern of this species easily dis- 

 tinguishes it from other species of Neobrotica. 



Neobrotica rogaguaensis, new species 



Figure 52 



About 6 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, shining, densely and 

 not coarsely punctate, the elytra with faint traces of costae; pale yellow 

 with pale reddish brown markings on the occiput, on the intermediate 

 joints of the antennae, tibiae and tarsi and the three broad elytral 

 fasciae interrupted at the suture, the apical one with an elongate pale 

 spot on each elytron. 



Head with the interocular space half width of head, occiput although 

 alutaceous finely punctate about the median depression over the 

 frontal tubercles, carina very short ending in a depression between the 

 rather bulging sides of the lower front, occiput and labrum reddish 



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