NEOBROTICA AND RELATED GENERA — BLAKE 323 



shining, pale yellow. Scutellum pale. Elytra in type specimen 

 shrivelled, probably wider in apical half, shiny, densely and strongly 

 punctate; a piceous basal marking covering the entire base and run- 

 ning down side from the humerus and also extending down the suture 

 about a quarter of the length of the elytra, a large piceous spot on the 

 side near the apex of each elytron, not joined at the suture. Body 

 beneath pale, legs entirely pale. Anterior coxal cavities open, claws 

 appendiculate. Length 8 mm. 



Type, female, in G. Frey Museum, Tutzing, near Munich, from 

 Coroico, Bolivia. 



Remarks: It is very doubtful whether this species should be in- 

 cluded in the genus Neobrotica. The antennae are not typical of 

 Neobrotica, the third joint being about the length of the second, and 

 the fourth and fifth joints nearly three times as long as the third. 

 The head is also different, having only a very short carina. Dr. 

 Gerhard Scherer has made a drawing of the head for this paper. 

 Unfortunately the only specimen known is a female. In this group 

 with the short third antennal joint, the male usually has other char- 

 acteristics, such as excised middle tibiae. Until a male is found, it is 

 impossible to be certain of the genus in which this species belongs, 



Neobrotica anisocincta Bechyne 



Figure 68 



Neobrotica anisocincta Bechyne, Ent. Arb. Mus. G. Frey, vol. 9, no. 2, pp 599-600, 

 1958. 



About 5 mm. m length, elongate oblong oval, shining, the elytra 

 coarsely and rugosely punctate, pale yeUow with a dark head, dark 

 basal fascia and another narrower one near the apex of elytra, dark 

 breast and dark intermediate joints of the antennae. 



Head with interocular space half width of head, a depression above 

 frontal tubercles, occiput shining with a few punctm'es near base, no 

 carina down lower front, the lower front somewhat bulging; entu'ely 

 dark. Antennae with the basal and three apical joints pale, inter- 

 mediate ones dark, the third antennal joint only half as long as the 

 fourth. Prothorax with a transverse sulcus, the sides slightly rounded, 

 entirely pale. Scutellum pale. Elytra widened behind, very ru- 

 gosely punctate, shining, pale with a wide dark basal fascia extending 

 one-third the length of the elytra, and another near the apex not so 

 wide. Body beneath pale with the breast dark, legs entirely pale. 

 Length 5.3 mm. 



Type, female, in G. Frey Museum, Tutzing, near Munich, Germany, 

 from Callanga, Peru. 



Remarks: Unfortunately only one specimen, a female, is known, and 

 this one is an old dirty specimen. This is probably not a species of 



