1905. ] OF PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA, 407 
broader band below the middle and interrupted at the outer 
portion, obscure brownish-zneous. 
Length 6—7 millim. 
Head sparingly punctured at the vertex, the latter piceous or 
blackish ; eyes very large, each as broad as the dividing space ; 
antennee long and slender, black, the lower joints sometimes 
testaceous at the base, very elongate with the exception of the 
second one; thorax with flattened and well-separated sides, the 
anterior margin but little concave, the angles produced outwards 
into a truncate tooth, the surface impunctate, pale testaceous ; 
seutellum broad, black ; elytra with distinct basal depression, very 
finely punctured, with narrow reflexed lateral margins, pale 
testaceous or whitish, with two broad dark brown bands with 
greenish gloss, the first at the base, not extending to the lateral 
margins, the other band of much longer shape, not extending to 
the sides or apex of the elytra, at its outer edge it is semidivided 
by a narrow stripe of the ground-colour; under side piceous or 
black; metatarsus as long as the following two joints together, 
claw-joint distinctly swollen. 
Hab. Peru. 
There are two specimens of this species before me, which is well 
distinguished by the produced, truncate, anterior thoracic angles 
and the markings of the elytra; the ground-colour of the latter is 
in one specimen of a pinkish-white tint, in the other obscure 
testaceous, the dark bands are divided at the middle by the 
narrow transverse stripe of the ground-colour. 
ASPHHRA BREVICOLLIS, sp. n. 
Piceous, legs black, the head and antennze fulvous; thorax 
scarcely twice as broad as long, flavous, impunctate; elytra 
impunctate, flavous, a broad transverse band at the base and 
a transverse spot below the middle metallic green. 
Length 7 millim. 
Head impunctate, fulvous; frontal elevations broad, divided by 
a deep groove and bounded behind by a narrow, more shallow 
suleus; clypeus strongly raised in shape of a broad triangular 
ridge ; eyes widely separated ; antenne extending to the middle of 
the elytra, dark fulvous, the third joint shorter than the fourth ; 
thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, the sides obliquely narrowed 
anteriorly, the lateral sulci rather narrow, the anterior angles 
thickened and strongly produced, the surface impunctate, flavous ; 
seutellum black; elytra slightly widened towards the middle, 
distinctly depressed below the base, flavous, with two bright 
metallic-green transverse bands, the first at the base extending 
downwards to about one-third the length of the elytra, the other 
in shape of a large slightly oblique spot, below the middle, neither 
of the bands extending to the lateral margins ; breast and abdomen 
piceous, legs black; metatarsus elongate, claw-joint but slightly 
swollen. 
Hab. Peru. 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1905, Vou. 11. No XXVIII. 28 
