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specimen with a reddish brown humeral spot, and in the same speci- 

 men the head on top deep brown. Antennae pale yellowish brown. 



Head with interocular space less than half width of head, occiput 

 alutaceous, finely punctate, the frontal tubercles a little swollen with a 

 median depression above and a narrow carina down lower front, in 

 one specimen the occiput brown, in the rest entirely pale. Antennae 

 moderately long, yellowish brown. Prothorax somewhat wider than 

 long with slightly curved sides and a transverse sulcus, surface aluta- 

 ceous, distinctly punctate. Scutellum pale. Elytra without signs of 

 costae, densely, shallowly and rather coarsely punctate, the punctures 

 tending to be in rows, surface dull alutaceous, pale yellowish brown, 

 in one specimen a reddish brown humeral spot. Body beneath pale 

 with the breast in some specimens a little deeper in shading, legs 

 entirely pale, front tibiae in the male enlarged, a spine on the middle 

 and hind tibiae. Length 6-7.3 mm.; width 3.4-4 mm. 



Type, male; one para type; both in MCZ, from Callanga, Peru. 



Other locahties. Five specimens in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology all females, from Cochabamba, Bolivia, collected by Germain; 

 one specimen in the U.S. National Museum, one specimen in the Frey 

 Museum from Peru. 



Remarks: Jacoby has already described a Neobrotica inconspicua 

 from Mexico which is also an entirely pale species except for the 

 antennae, but with elytral costae. 



Neobrotica octosignata, new species 



Figure 64 



Between 6 and 8.5 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, not very 

 shiny, alutaceous, elytra not at all costate, coarsely and confusedly 

 punctate, pale yellow brown; the elytra with reddish brown or piceous 

 spots, one on the humerus, one large one below the scutellum near the 

 suture, another near apex and suture, and one at the apical curve on the 

 side of each elytron. 



Head with interocular space about half width of head, a median 

 depression over frontal tubercles, occiput alutaceous and finely 

 punctate, a rather poorly defined carma down the lower front, lower 

 front punctate on the sides, head entirely pale. Antennae pale with 

 the intermediate joints a little deeper in color. Prothorax wider than 

 long with slightly curved sides and a transverse sulcus ; alutaceous and 

 finely punctate, usually entirely pale but one specimen with a piceous 

 spot on each side anteriorly, no trace of this spotting in the other four 

 specimens. Scutellum pale. Elytra without costae, alutaceous, not 

 shining, densely and rather coarsely punctate, the punctures tending 

 to be striate; pale yellow brown with reddish brown to piceous spots, 

 one covering the humerus, another large one a little below the scutellum 



