NEOBROTICA AND RELATED GENERA — BLAKE 317 



Remarks: Only one specimen of this species has been examined, 

 the "variety" of Jacoby's description, which is in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoologj^ The species was described from a collection 

 of beetles by E. Simon, made in Venezuela in 1888, and it is possible 

 that the typical form was returned to the collector. It is not in 

 the British Museum (Natural History). In the typical form Jacoby 

 describes the elytral shoulders as having a "short narrow elongate 

 and angular black mark, the lower angle of which turns inwards 

 and a round piceous obscure spot below." He describes the variety 

 as being immaculate, the specimen as having the left elytron pale 

 green and the right one fulvous. In this specimen at present the 

 green has entu'ely disappeared, leaving the elytron mostly pale yellow 

 but not so deep in color as the right elytron, which is yeUow brown. 

 The distinctive thing about the species is the lack of costation and 

 the presence of bare longitudinal lines on the elytra with the intervals 

 geminate striate punctate. 



Neobrotica germaini, new species 



Figure 46 



About 5.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, feebly shining and 

 somewhat alutaceous, the elytra distinctly and rather densely punc- 

 tate, pale reddish brown with a dark piceous occiput on head and dark 

 markings having a faint violaceous tint on the elytra, these consist- 

 ing of a sutural vitta not reaching the middle and a dark lateral 

 mark from the humerus down the side of the same length as the sutural 

 vitta, which curves at the end across the elytron but does not reach 

 the suture, and near the apex on each elytron a thick lunate mark 

 opening towards the suture; breast dark, rest of undersurface and 

 legs pale. 



Head with interocular space approximately half width of head, 

 a small median depression over the frontal tubercles, a carina down 

 lower front which is reddish brown, the occiput being piceous. An- 

 tennae with third joint shorter than fourth, joints five to eight deeper 

 brown, apical two joints pale yellow with the tip dark. Prothorax 

 with rounded sides, shining, smooth, the transverse sulcus represented 

 by an oblique depression on each side, entirely reddish brown. Scu- 

 teUum piceous. Elytra faintly costate, distinctly and confusedly 

 punctate, reddish brown with dark markings having a faint violaceous 

 tint and as described above. Body beneath and legs reddish brown 

 except the breast which is shining piceous. Anterior coxal cavities 

 open, claws appendiculate. Length 5.5 mm.; width 2.5 mm. 



Type, female, Bowditch collection, MCZ 30816, from Cochabamba, 

 BoUvia, collected by Germain. 



