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(SallS), Senahu, Chacoj, Purula, Teleman, Panima (Champion); Costa Rica, Cache, 

 Volcan de Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion). — 

 Colombia 4 ; Guiana 3 , Cayenne 1 2 . 



A well-known and apparently common species; amongst the numerous examples 

 before me from the above different localities, several varieties are present, one in which 

 the transverse darker band of the thorax is entirely wanting, and another in which the 

 entire upper surface is of a reddish hue, no doubt attributable to discoloration from 

 some cause or other. The elytra in normally coloured specimens are of a pale brownish 

 colour, with a more or less distinct violaceous tint, and interrupted by a transverse 

 narrow white band at the middle ; the lateral margin and the posterior part of the 

 suture are also whitish in most specimens ; in some instances, however, they remain 

 of the ground-colour. 



11. Asphsera chontalensis. 



Obscure testaceous ; thorax and the posterior femora yellowish- white ; tibiae and tarsi obscure piceous ; thorax 

 and elytra impunctate. 



Length 3§ lines. 



Head impunctate, the vertex dark piceous, the clypeus testaceous ; antennae obscure fulvous, all the joints 

 (with the exception of the second one) of nearly equal length ; thorax rather more than twice as broad as 

 long, the sides strongly rounded, the anterior angles produced and thickened, the surface entirely impunc- 

 tate, of a yellowish-white colour, and shining ; scutellum obscure testaceous ; elytra of the same colour, 

 with a rather well-marked transverse depression below the base, the latter somewhat raised, the surface 

 not visibly punctured ; the breast, tibiae, and tarsi obscure piceous, the posterior femora pale yellowish ; 

 the first joint of the posterior tarsi scarcely as long as the two following joints together, the claw-joint 

 but moderately swollen. 



Hob. Nicaeagua, Chontales (Janson). 



There are three specimens of this species before me, which all agree in the above 

 particulars ; the metatarsus of the posterior legs, although rather shorter than in most 

 species of this genus, is still longer than in (Edionychis, and the not strongly swollen 

 claw-joint shows the place of the insect to be rather in Asphmra. A. chontalensis may be 

 separated by the nearly white-coloured thorax and posterior femora in connection with 

 the impunctate upper surface. 



12. AsphsBra polita. 



Fulvous or testaceous ; head, antennae, legs (the base of the femora excepted), and part of the breast, black j 

 thorax impunctate ; elytra extremely finely punctured. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head impunctate, entirely black (with the exception of a few punctures near the inner margin of the eyes), 

 with the usual T-shaped grooves between the antennae ; antennae black, except the extreme base, which is 

 fulvous half the length of the body, rather robust, the third and fourth joints equal in length ; thorax 

 more than twice as broad as long, the anterior and posterior margins parallel and straight, the anterior 

 angles strongly produced in front of the head and thickened, the sides but slightly rounded, the surface 

 entirely impunctate, shining ; scutellum black ; elytra of the same colour as the thorax, or somewhat 

 darker their very minute punctuation visible only under a strong lens ; underside paler, the base of the 



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