412 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON NEW SPECIES [N ov. 28, 
another one below the middle, and a short oblique stripe near the 
apex flavous. 
Var. a. The elytral transverse band and the spots absent. 
Var. 6, Hlytra as in the type, but the spots absent. 
Var. c. The transverse band indicated by a sutural and lateral 
spot; the other spots wanting. 
Var, d. Like var. c, but the apical stripe as well as the spots 
wanting. 
Length 7 millim. 
Head entirely impunctate, with the exception of one or two 
punctures near the eyes, the frontal elevations broadly transverse; 
clypeus flavous, with an acutely raised central ridge; antenne 
dark fulvous, extending slightly below the middle of the elytra, 
the third and fourth joints equal; thorax strongly transverse, the 
lateral margins rounded, the anterior angles thickened but not 
dentiform, the sides with a longitudinal groove, flattened, the 
surface impunctate, fulvous or flavous, posterior margin nearly 
straight ; scutellum black; elytra impunctate, but the paler 
markings with minute fuscous spots, the ground-colour metallic 
greenish cupreous, the lateral margins, elytral epipleure, a narrow 
transverse band at the middle, a small spot near the scutellum, 
another below the middle near the suture, and a short oblique 
streak near the apex at the sides flavous; underside piceous ; the 
anterior legs more or less pale, the metatarsus of the posterior 
legs as long as the following two joints; claws rather strongly 
swollen. 
Hab. Peru, Prov. Huallaga; also Bolivia. 
The type of this species, from which I have drawn the above 
description, is not difficult to distinguish from others, on account 
of the elytral markings, and is principally separated by the sub- 
apical short flavous streak which is connected with the similarly 
coloured lateral stripe. Some of the varieties, however, are 
without this mark, and consequently resemble several other 
similarly coloured species; there is, however, nearly always the 
indication of the transverse band in shape of a small flavous 
sutural spot at the middle and a corresponding one opposite at 
the margins; the thorax has the sides well defined by a deep 
longitudinal groove, and the claw-joint is more strongly swollen 
than in many other species of the genus. 
Of var. d two specimens are before me. In these the elytral 
spots and band ave absent, but, as usual, the sutural remnant of 
the band is present, and instead of the subapical short streak 
there is a widening of the flavous lateral margin at the cor- 
responding place, thus indicating the typical mark. Oedionychis 
dipus Ill. is of exactly similar coloration, but is a true Oedionychis 
with a short posterior metatarsus. 
ASPHHRA ELEGANTULA, sp.n. (Plate XIV. fig. 6.) 
Black; clypeus and the thorax flavous, the latter impunctate ; 
elytra bright metallic blue, impunctate; a narvow transverse band 
