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broader form, the suture connects all these lower bands by a 
narrow metallic green stripe; metatarsus elongate, claw-joint 
strongly swollen. 
Hab. Peru. 
Different in the number and shape of its elytral bands from 
any other species ; two exactly similar specimens are contained in 
my collection. 
ASPHERA VERNALIS, Sp. n. 
Piceous, the lower part of the face and the thorax flavous, sides 
of the latter broadly flattened, disc impunctate; elytra flavous or 
pale fulvous, with two transverse violaceous bands, one at the 
base, the other below the middle, not extending to the sides or 
apex. 
Length 6-63 millim. 
Head with a few punctures near the eyes; the vertex nearly 
black, the frontal tubercles and the clypeus flavous; antennz 
piceous or black, the lower three joints obscure fulvous ; thorax 
slightly narrowed anteriorly, the sides with a rather broad flattened 
margin, the anterior angles dentiform, the disc impunctate, 
yellowish-white ; scutellum black ; elytra impunctate, flavous, the 
basal transverse blue or violaceous band nearly extending to the 
middle, the lower band of equal width, not extending to the 
apex, both bands are limited laterally by the broadly reflexed 
lateral margins, the flavous band which separates the darker ones 
at the middle is of about half the width (in a longitudinal 
sense) than the blue bands; breast and legs piceous, the base of 
the femora rather lighter; abdomen flavous; claw-joint scarcely 
thickened. 
Hab. Br. Guiana. 
This is another species with transverse blue bands of which so 
many are known, yet there is none which agrees entirely with the 
presentone. 4. wmula Illig. is described as over 44 lines in length, 
the thorax as having the sides obsoletely flattened, while in this 
species it 1s very distinctly marked ; the colour of the head is given 
as testaceous and the median pale band as broad, while in A. vernalis 
this band is of only haif the width of that of the dark bands 
These remarks also apply to 4. ornata lig. A. ewrialis Kvichs. 
has the posterior band much narrower and the pale division 
broader; in A. limitata Har. the posterior blue band is still 
narrower, and there are other differences besides. 
ASPHRA SEPARATA, Sp. 1. 
Black; thorax fulvous, impunctate; elytra pale testaceous, 
impunctate, a broad transverse band at the base, not extending to 
the lateral margins, and another band at the apex, dark violaceous. 
Length 6 millim, 
Head black, shining, impunctate; eyes large, elongate, frontal 
elevations very broad but feebly raised, clypeus with an acute 
central ridge ; antenne black, the third and fourth joints equal, 
