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and very strongly thickened at the anterior angles, the latter 
produced but not dentiform, the surface impunctate, nearly 
white ; scutellum dark brown; elytra of the same colour or dark 
fuscous, shining, impunctate, each with two white markings, the 
first at the middle in shape of a transverse band not quite extend- 
ing to either margin, the second of rounded shape, near the apex ; 
the breast piceous ; the legs dark fulvous; the abdomen testaceous 
or flavous; claw-joint rather strongly swollen ; prosternum very 
narrow and parallel. 
Hab. Colombia. 
In some specimens the ground-colour of the elytra is much 
paler. The absence of a thoracic flattening of the sides and 
the position and colour of the elytral markings distinguish this 
species. 
ASPHERA BIPLAGIATA, Sp. 0. 
Black, thorax and the femora flavous ; elytra nearly impunctate, 
the iateral margins, a large discoidal patch, and the apex flavous ; 
apex of the posterior femora black. 
Length 5-6 millim. 
Head black, with one or two punctures near the eyes ; antennee 
black, the lower two joints flavous below, third and following 
joints nearly equal; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, the 
sides rounded anteriorly, with a broad flattened sulcus, the anterior 
angles thickened but not produced, the surface impunctate, flavous ; 
scutellum black; elytra impunctate ; under side, the apex of the 
posterior femora, and the tibize and tarsi black, rest of the femora 
flavous. 
Hab. Brazil. 
This Asphera vesembles almost exactly A. episcopalis Ml. in the 
elytral pattern, which consists of a transverse black band at the 
base and another near the apex connected by a very narrow 
sutural stripe, the disc in shape of a large oval patch and the apex 
as well as the lateral margins being flavous. The differences 
which separate this species are: the entirely black head, without the 
whitish frontal tubercles; the anterior angles of the thorax, which 
are not produced ; the position of the posterior elytral band, which 
is placed much lower down than in the above-named species; and 
the colour of the legs. I have received several specimens from the 
La Plata Museum without a special locality. 
ASPH&RA ERICHSONI, Sp. 0. 
Black; thorax testaceous, the sides straight, the surface 
impunctate; elytra nearly black, the lateral margins and an 
extremely narrow transverse straight band at the middle flavous. 
Length 6 millim. : 
Head with a few punctures above the eyes, black, the frontal 
elevations very broad and flat, scarcely raised, the base of the 
antenne flavous; the antenne very long and slender, black, 
the fourth joint longer than the third ; thorax only about one- 
