1905. | OF PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA, 401 
punctate, frontal elevations broad, feebly raised, clypeus broad 
and thick; eyes widely separated, not very prominent; antennee 
long and slender, black, third and following joints very elongate, 
nearly equal; thorax about twice as broad as long, the sides 
widened, the lateral margins strongly rounded, the anterior angles 
strongly produced and pointed, the surface impunctate, the lateral 
sulci broad but shallow, testaceous, the middle of the disc black; 
scutellum black; elytra with strongly reflexed lateral margins, 
the posterior portion convex and widened, the surface impunctate, 
testaceous; posterior femora less thickened than usual, the 
metatarsus very elongate; claw-joint scarcely, if at all, swollen ; 
prosternum very narrow. 
Hab. Bogota. 
This Asphera differs in more than one respect from the other 
members of the genus: the slender antenne, widened sides of the 
thorax, and the but moderately thickened posterior femora are not 
found in any other species, to my knowledge, and agree rather 
with the genus Aspicela, but the perfectly normal shape of the 
mesosternum prevents the insect from being included in that 
genus. I know of only a single specimen. 
ASPHARA HILARIS, sp. n. 
Entirely pale testaceous ; eyes rather large, antenne pale fulvous 
or testaceous, thorax with gradually flattened sides, elytra not 
perceptibly punctured, metatarsus of the posterior legs elongate, 
claws swollen. 
Length 7-8 millim. 
Head impunctate, testaceous, shining ; the eyes proportionately 
closely approached and rather large; antenne extending to the 
middle of the elytra, obscure fulvous; thorax with feebly rounded 
sides, slightly narrowed anteriorly, the anterior margin concave, 
anterior angles thickened but only very slightly produced, the sides 
gradually flattened, the disc impunctate; elytra with a very shallow 
depression below the base, with broadly reflexed lateral margins, 
the surface entirely impunctate, shining; under side coloured as 
the upper surface, legs slightly darker; the metatarsus of the 
posterior legs nearly as long as the following joints together, claw- 
joints distinctly swollen. 
Hab. Espirito Santo, Brazil. 
An apparently rather common species of unicolorous appearance, 
which may be known by the gradually flattened sides of the thorax 
and the more than usually thickened claws; the elongate meta- 
tarsus shows, however, the species to belong to Asphera. A. pallida 
Jac. is a much larger and broader species, with a black head. 
ASPHZRA ALBIFRONS, sp. n. 
Testaceous, the antenne black (apical three joints sometimes 
pale), the breast piceous, the head whitish-testaceous, thorax with 
the anterior and posterior margins black at the middle, elytra 
finely punctured. 
