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Genus OMMATA White 
OMMATA (ECLIPTA) BREVIPENNIS Melzer 
Ommata (Hclipta) brevipennis Mreuzer, Arch. Inst. Biol. Sio Paulo, vol. 5, pp. 
217-218, pl. 15, figs. 9-10, 1934. 
Three specimens (two males and one female) were received from 
Fritz Plaumann for identification. These are alike in coloration and 
agree with the description given by Melzer for the male of brevipennis. 
They were collected at Nova Teutonia, Santa Catharina, Brazil, during 
November 1936, by Mr. Plaumann. 
Melzer described this species from a male from Paraguay, with 
which he associated a female from the Argentine Republic. This 
female differs from the male in having the thorax red and may be 
a variety of the typical form. 
According to the generic classification given by Lacordaire (Genera 
des Coléoptéres, vol. 8, p. 498, 1869) for the tribe Rhinotragini, brevi- 
pennis could easily be placed in the genus Odontocera, but Bates (Ann. 
Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 11, p. 36, 1837) has restricted the use of 
the genus Odontocera for the species which have the vitreous spaces 
on the elytra. 
OMMATA (ECLIPTA) BREVIPENNIS var. FULVIPES, new variety 
This variety differs from the typical form of brevipennis Melzer 
in having the antennae dark brownish yellow, the elytra brownish 
black, and all the legs brownish yellow, except the dorsal surface of 
the tarsi, which are more or less blackish. 
Length 17 mm., width 2.25 mm. 
Type locality.—Nova Teutonia, Santa Catharina, Brazil. 
Type.—vU.S.N.M. No. 57673. 
Remarks.—Described from a single female collected December 26, 
1936, by Fritz Plaumann. 
OMMATA (ECLIPTA) BREVIPENNIS var. SANGUINICOLLIS, new variety 
This variety differs from the typical form of brevipennis Melzer in 
having the elytra and tibiae in part brownish black and the thorax 
varying from uniformly dark red to dark red with a small black space 
at base and along anterior margin of pronotum, rarely with the 
prothorax and median part of pronotum black. 
Length 14 mm., width 2 mm. 
Type locality.—Nova Teutonia, Santa Catharina, Brazil. 
Type and paraty pes.—U.S.N.M. No. 57674. 
Remarks.—Described from eight females (one type) collected during 
December 1935 and October and November 1936 by Fritz Plaumann. 
