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elytra with the basal portion rather convex, impunctate, metallic 
blue, the lateral margins and a rather narrow transverse band at 
the middle testaceous, epipleure of the latter colour; below and 
the legs black; metatarsus rather elongate, claw-joint scarcely 
swollen. 
Hab. Peru. 
The black band of the thorax and the strongly dentate and pro- 
duced anterior angles of the latter, together with the nearly simple 
claw-joint, principally characterise this species. 
Lilytra metallic, with flavous margins. 
ASPHHRA ALBICINCTA, sp.n. (Plate XIV. fig. 4.) 
Black, thorax pale flavous, impunctate; elytra metallic blue, the 
disc foveolate and rugose, the lateral margins yellowish-white ; 
abdomen flavous. 
Length 9-10 millim. 
Of ovately-elongate shape, rounded below the middle; the head 
black, with some few punctures near the eyes, longitudinally 
grooved between the latter; antennz extending to the middle of 
the elytra, black, the third, fourth, and fifth joints equal, the 
following ones shorter; thorax with gradually flattened sides, 
the anterior margin deeply concave, anterior angles slightly 
produced into a small tooth, thickened, the disc entirely im- 
punctate, pale yellowish ; scutellum black; elytra bright metallic 
blue or purplish, variolose-punctate, the interstices strongly 
wrinkled or rugose, the lateral margins to the apex whitish ; 
breast and legs black; metatarsus elongate, claw-joint slightly 
swollen; abdomen flavous. 
Hab. Peru. 
Of the same coloration as Asphera (Aspicela) albomarginata 
Latr., and of nearly similar sculpturing, but a true Asphera (like 
the last-named species) on account of the metasternum not being 
truncate anteriorly ; in Latreille’s insect the thorax is margined 
with black and the elytral fovez are larger and less numerous. 
Hlytra variously coloured, with transverse pale bands or 
with spots. 
ASPH HRA BISBIPLAGIATA, Sp. Nn. 
Obscure fulvous orfuscous, the head and the antennz black ; 
thorax yellowish white; elytra impunctate, each with two white 
bands, one transversely shaped at the middle, the other more 
rounded near the apex. 
Length 7 millim. 
Head with some deep punctures near the eyes, the vertex 
nearly black, the frontal elevations bounded behind by a very deep 
transverse groove; base of the antenne flavous, the basal two 
joints piceous, the others black ; thorax with the anterior margin 
straight, the sides not flattened, but the lateral margins gradually 
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