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brown, lower front pale yellow. Antennae brownish, shading to deep 

 brown in the intermediate joints, terminal three joints pale yellow with 

 the tip dark. Prothorax somewhat rectangular but not twice as wide 

 as long with slightly rounded sides, the transverse sulcus well marked, 

 surface shiny, very finely punctate. Scutellum brown. Elytra aluta- 

 ceous, feebly shining, rather densely and distinctly punctate, faintly 

 costate; pale yellow with a basal, median and apical fascia with an 

 elongate pale spot, possibly in some specimens dividing this apical 

 fascia into two. Body beneath and femora pale, tibiae and tarsi more 

 or less brownish piceous, anterior coxal cavities open, the claws 

 appendiculate. Length 5.8 mm.; width 3 mm. 



Type, male, USNM 66846, from Rosario, Lake Rogagua, Bolivia, 

 collected by W. M. Mann, Oct. 28-Nov. 9, 1921. 



Remarks: The pale reddish brown markings and rather unusual 

 elytral pattern sufficiently differentiate this species. In coloring it is 

 closest to N. hepatica Bechyne, having similar reddish brown elytral 

 markings. 



Neobrotica inconstans Jacoby 



Figure 61 

 Neobrotica inconstans Jacoby, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 285, 1889. 



About 6 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, shining, faintly alu- 

 taceous, head, breast, intermediate joints of antennae, tibiae and 

 tarsi piceous; base of head, thorax and rest of beetle pale yellowish 

 brown, except in one specimen, which has a dark spot on the humerus; 

 the elytra not at all costate but with bare fines instead, the inter- 

 vals being geminate striate. 



Head with interocular space about half width of head, shining 

 piceous except at the base which is pale, a median depression above 

 the rather indistinctly marked frontal tubercles, carina down front 

 not distinguishable from the slightly swollen lower front. Antennae 

 with the three basal joints and three apical ones pale, intervening 

 ones piceous. Prothorax almost twice as broad as long with rounded 

 sides and transverse sulcus, finely punctate, shining, pale yellow brown. 

 Scutellum pale. Elytra widened in apical half, a short shallow intra- 

 humeral sulcus, punctation in double rows between bare fines, not 

 at aU costate, surface faintly alutaceous but shiny, pale yeUow brown; 

 one elytron paler near the suture than on the sides, the other uni- 

 formly yellow brown. Jacoby writes that one specimen has a humeral 

 dark spot. Body beneath pale with the breast piceous, femora pale, 

 tibiae and tarsi dark. Length 6 mm. 



Type, whereabouts unknown; "variety," female, in MCZ, from 

 Tovar Colonia, Prov. Guzman, Blanco Mts., 1900 m., Venezuela, 

 coUected by E. Simon in 1888. 



