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Remarks: Bowditch has attached the manuscript name N. germari 

 to this distinctive little species, meaning, I believe, to name it after 

 its collector. The label reads simply "Germ.," but I believe that 

 instead of the German Germar who died in 1853, this abbreviation 

 is for Germain (1827-1913), the Chilean entomologist who collected 

 in the Andes and wrote many papers on the msects of Chile. 



This species is more costate and more stongly punctate than N. 

 ruficollis, and the third joint is shorter than the fourth antennal joint, 

 which joints in ruHcollis are subequal. 



Neobrotica erythrinae Bechyne 



Figure 43 

 Neobrotica enjthrinae Bechyne, Ent. Arb. Mus. G. Frey, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 598, 1958. 



Between 5 and 7.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, somewhat 

 shiny, although faintly alutaceous, the elytra densely and finely 

 punctate, pale yellow with the upper part of the head piceous black 

 and the breast black; the elytra varying from having heavy piceous 

 markings over the base, middle and apex to being pale with only 

 traces of these markings at the side, suture and apex; tibiae with 

 a dark streak. 



Head with the interocular space approximately half width of head, 

 occiput smoothly rounded, alutaceous, very finely punctate, the 

 frontal tubercles not well marked but somewhat swollen and above 

 them a median depression; lower front with a very narrow carina, 

 upper part of the head and about the eyes piceous, lower front some- 

 times entirely pale but usually with a median darkening and dark 

 mouthparts. Antennae with the intermediate joints brownish, tip of 

 terminal joint dark. Pro thorax a little wider than long, with some- 

 what curved sides and a rather shallow transverse sulcus, often marked 

 only by an oblique depression on either side, shining, impunctate, pale 

 yellow. Scutellum piceous. Elytra very finely punctate, alutaceous, 

 pale yellow with variable dark piceous markings; in the more darkly 

 marked specimens on each elytron a large dark basal spot often 

 connecting along the side with a median dark fascia that does not 

 reach the suture, or this may be entirely lacking; at the apex another 

 broad band, sometimes broken up into a semicircular dark marking 

 near the apex, the suture dark about the scutellum, in the paler 

 specimens only remnants of these fasciae marked by spots on the 

 humerus, along the side, and at apex. Body beneath pale with the 

 breast dark, legs pale, the tibiae with a darker streak on the outside, 

 the abdomen dorsally somewhat darker. Length 6.5-7.5 mm.; width 

 2.5-3 mm. 



Type and paratype in the George Frey Museum, Tutzing, near 

 Munich, from Tingo Maria, Rio Huallaga, 700 m., collected by 



