404 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON NEW SPECIES [ Nov. 28, 
Length 6 millim. 
Head impunctate, black ; eyes distant, frontal elevations oblique, 
rather broad; clypeus very narrow, strongly thickened, carma 
very convex; antenne long and slender, fulvous, third and following 
joints slender, equal or nearly so; thorax about twice as broad as 
long, the lateral margins feebly rounded, the anterior angles 
bluntly produced, the lateral sulei deep and broad, the surface 
impunctate, pale flavous; scutellum triangular, black; elytra with 
narrow but strongly reflexed lateral margins, yellowish-white, 
with two transverse blue bands not extending to the lateral 
margins, the first extending to about one-third of the length of 
the elytra, with its posterior edge nearly straight, the second band 
below the middle, of only half the width and of obliquely down- 
ward direction; breastand legs black, abdomen testaceous ; meta- 
tarsus elongate, claw-joint very moderately swollen. 
Hab. Carillo, Costa Rica. 
The black head, fulvous antenne, and the shape of the elytral 
bands principally distinguish this Asphera; the elytra have the 
basal portion rather distinctly raised, but the intrahumeral 
depression is but moderately deep. I have three exactly similar 
specimens before me. 
From 4. nigrofasciata Jac., likewise from Costa Rica, the 
present species may be separated by the fulvous colour of the 
antenne, the blue, not black, elytral bands, the much more 
narrow, reflexed margins of the elytra, and the rather smaller 
general size and more widened shape. 
ASPHERA ZONULATA, sp. n. (Plate XIV. fig. 7.) 
Black below, antenne and legs more or less piceous, above 
flavous ; thorax impunctate, the anterior angles produced ; elytra 
very finely punctured, with four metallic green transverse bands, 
much widened towards the suture, which is likewise metallic 
green. 
Length 7 millim. 
Of medially widened shape ; the head move or less piceous at the 
vertex, the lower portion fulvous ; eyes moderately large, with a 
few punctures near their inner margins; clypeus in shape of a 
transverse ridge; antenne nearly black, the third joint smaller 
than the fourth; thorax with strongly rounded lateral margins, 
the anterior angles produced into a small tooth, the sides broadly 
and deeply sulcate, the surface impunctate, flavous, obsoletely 
transversely grooved near the base; scutellum black; elytra con- 
vex, broadly margined, widest at the middle, very finely punctured 
throughout, flavous, with four bright green metallic bands, not 
extending to the margins—of these, the one at the base is the 
widest and has its posterior margin obliquely rounded, it extends 
as far as the shoulders, the second band at the middle is connected 
with the first along the suture by a rather broad stripe of green, 
its ends are greatly narrowed, the third band below the ‘middle is 
of similar shape, but the fourth near the apex is of a shorter and 
