1952] 
Blake — Megistops 
3 
9. Elytra black with 6 red streaks (“litura”) . Cuba 
rubropustulata Suff. 
Elytra reddish brown or yellowish brown with 
streaks 10 
10. Elytra reddish brown with pale base and pale streaks 
down towards the middle and vestiges of other 
streaks in apical half. Puerto Rico fictor Weise 
Elytra yellow brown with dark brown narrow vit- 
tae 11 
11. Elytra with heavy black margin joining at middle with 
a median dark vitta, a sutural vitta and a subsutural 
vitta often uniting, neither of these median vittae 
entire. Puerto Rico bryanti n. sp. 
Elytra with a narrow sutural and 3 short median 
vittae and also dark markings on the humeri and 
along the margin and near apex. Santo Domingo. 
liturata Olivier 
Key to South American Species 
1. Elytra dark, without spots. Ecuador 
lugubrina Boheman 3 
Elytra spotted 2 
2. Elytra dark with pale spots 3 
Elytra pale with darker spots 8 
3. Elytra 10-spotted. Paraguay . . 10-maculata Bryant 
Elytra 4-spotted 4 
4. Large (nearly 5 mm.), oblong, thorax with a median 
dark vitta, spur at apex of hind tibiae very short and 
broad. Brazil fenestrata Illiger 
Smaller (2-4 mm.), thorax without a median vitta, 
spurs on the hind tibiae of the usual length 5 
5. The pale basal spot on each elytron curved about from 
base near scutellum towards margin. Ecuador 
4-notata Boheman 
3 Probably dark form of 4-notata Boheman. 
