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lacking in colomhiensis and the dull alutaceous surface is unlike that 

 species. Bowditch has attached the manuscript name grandis to it. 



Neobrotica quadrimaculata, new species 



Figure 65 



About 7 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, somewhat shiny, 

 alutaceous, elytra densely and strongly punctate, the prothorax with 

 a shallow transverse sulcus, pale yeUow brown, the occiput of head 

 piceous, breast dark, elytra with a small dark spot on the humerus 

 and another small one before the middle of each elytron. 



Head with interocular space half width of head, frontal tubercles 

 swollen, a depression above, carina short, lost in the bulging lower 

 front, head piceous over occiput, from frontal tubercles down yellowish 

 brown. Antennae with the terminal joint missing, brownish with 

 joints 9 and 10 pale yeUow. Prothorax with sides slightly curved, a 

 very shallow transverse sulcus, shiny, nearly impunctate, yellowish 

 brown. ScuteUum tan colored. Elytra wider towards apex, dis- 

 tinctly punctate, alutaceous, faintly shiny, no signs of costae, markings 

 as above. Body beneath pale yellowish bro^^^l with the breast dark, 

 legs entirely pale; middle and hind tibiae with a spine, anterior coxal 

 cavities open, claws appendiculate. Length 7 mm.; width 3 mm. 



Type, female, BMNH, from Mucutuy, La Veganilla, 5000 ft., 

 E. Merida, Venezuela, collected by J. Hanbury Tracey, Oct. 21, 1938. 



Kemarks: This is another of the large pale spotted species. It 

 differs from the others in having only four elytral spots with the occi- 

 put of the head dark. 



Neobrotica ludicra Bechyne 



Figure 67 

 Neobrotica ludicra Bechj^ne, Ent. Arb. Mus. G. Frey, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 599, 1958. 



Approximately 8 mm. in length, elongate oblong oval, the elytra 

 strongly and densely punctate, pale yellow with the head dark and 

 dark markings along the base of the elytra extending down the side 

 and down the suture about a quarter the length of the elytra, also a 

 large dark spot on each elytron on the side near the apex. 



Head with the interocular space more than half the width of the 

 head, tubercles somewhat swollen with a shallow median depression 

 above, occiput smooth, finely punctate, carina very short and broad, 

 cheeks bulging. Antennae long and slender, the basal three and apical 

 three joints pale, intermediate ones deeper brown; third joint not 

 much longer than second and fourth joint nearly tliree times as long 

 as second. Prothorax considerably wider than long, with slightly 

 curved sides; the transverse sulcus not deep, very finely punctate, 



