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8. Asphaera semifulva. (Tab. XXIII. fig. 20.) 



Piceous ; antennae dark fulvous ; thorax testaceous ; elytra impunctate, testaceous, a broad transverse band at 

 the base and another equal or broader band below the middle, fulvous. 



Length 3-3J lines. 



Head entirely dark fulvous or piceous, impunctate in the middle, finely punctured round the eyes, the latter 

 not very closely approached, the space between deeply foveolate ; antennae dark fulvous, the fourth joint 

 equal to the third in length in the male, but a little longer in the female ; thorax testaceous, entirely 

 impunctate, the sides nearly straight and narrowly margined, and also more or less but not very distinctly 

 flattened, the anterior angles acutely pointed but not produced into a tooth, the posterior margin quite 

 straight ; scutellum fulvous ; elytra impunctate at the dark portions, extremely minutely punctured at 

 their lighter parts, both the transverse fulvous bands concave on their posterior margins, and produced at 

 the sutural margin, where they end in a point, none of the bands extending quite to the lateral margin ; 

 underside and legs entirely piceous ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the two following joints 

 together, the claw-joint moderately swollen. 



Eab. Costa Rica ( Van Patten). 



The posterior band of the elytra is sometimes as broad as the anterior one, but both 

 are rather deeply emarginate at their posterior margin, straight at the anterior one, 

 which, together with the dark underside and head and the almost smooth elytra, will 

 help to distinguish the species. A. wagneri, Har., differs in the white frontal spot and 

 the testaceous underside, also in the differently shaped elytral bands. 



9. Asphaera marginicollis. 



Greyish or greenish-testaceous ; antennae (the first joint excepted) blackish ; thorax impunctate, the posterior 

 margin black ; elytra closely punctured and finely rugose. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head impunctate ; the frontal tubercles transverse, distinctly raised and narrow ; antennas black, the first 

 joint pale testaceous ; thorax transverse, the sides rounded, the anterior angles produced into a very small 

 tooth, the surface not visibly punctured, the entire posterior margin narrowly black ; elytra very closely 

 punctured, the interstices everywhere finely rugose ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as or longer 

 than the two following joints united, the claw-joint rather strongly swollen. 



Eab. Panama, Bugaba, Caldera in Chiriqui 1200 feet (Champion). 



The length of the first joint of the posterior tarsi differs in the specimens before me, 

 but is in some so slender that I have placed the species in Asphcera, although the shape 

 of the thorax and the rather strongly swollen claw might have justified its inclusion in 

 (Edionychis. A. marginicollis is of a peculiar greenish-testaceous colour, and may be 

 at once known by the posterior black margin of the thorax. Ten specimens were 

 obtained. 



10. Asphaera nobilitata. 



Galleruca nobilitata, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 492 \ 

 Chrysomela nobilitata, Hiibn. Naturf. xxiv. 41, t. ii. f. 4 2 . 

 Altica nobilitata, Oliv. Ent. vi. p. 684, t. 2. f. 26 3 . 

 (Edionychis discicollis, Schauf. Nunq. Otios. ii. 1874, p. 306 4 . 



Eab. Beitish Honduras, Belize, R. Hondo, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala 



