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anterior portion of the elytra are normal or accidental, I am 
unable to say. The design of the elytra resembles that of Homo- 
phota 8-guttata Fab., but in that insect the vertex of the head has 
the characteristic white or flavous patch and the clypeus is of 
similar coloration ; the elytra are smooth, and the intermediate 
flavous patch is never subdivided; in the Peru species the meta- 
tarsus is moderately elongate and the claw-joint rather strongly 
swollen. 
ASPHERA NITIDISSIMA, sp. n. (Plate XIV. fig. 5.) 
Broadly ovate, black; clypeus fulvous; thorax strongly trans- 
verse, fulvous, anterior angles toothed; elytra strongly convex, 
minutely punctured, bright “metallic green, the lateral and apical 
Inargins and a narrow transverse band at the middle flavous or 
fulvous. 
Length 10 millim. 
Head impunctate, blackish; frontal elevations transverse, 
bounded by a deep groove behind; clypeus fulvous, acutely cari- 
nate at the middle; diameter of each eye of less width than the 
dividing space; antennz long and slender, extending below the 
middle of the elytra, black, the third joint shorter than the fourth; 
thorax more than twice as broad as long, the lateral margins 
strongly rounded, deeply and broadly sulcate, the anterior angles 
strongly produced into a blunt tooth, the disc impunctate, fulvous, 
sometimes marked with two small fulvous spots ; scutellum black ; 
elytra broad, convex and widened posteriorly, deeply suleate 
within the shoulders and with another shallow depression below 
the base, very minutely punctured, very bright metallic green, this 
colour divided at the middle by a narrow transverse fulvous band 
which joins the similarly coloured lateral margins; under side and 
legs black; the metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as the 
following two joints together; claw-joint strongly swollen. 
Hab. Pachitea, Peru. 
Larger and more broadly ovate than the other similarly coloured 
species of the genus; the antenne slender and proportionately 
long; the thorax strongly toothed; the metatarsus somewhat 
intermediate between that of Ocdiong ychis and the present genus 
as a rule, but as long as the following two joints together. 
ASPHARA VIRIDICOLLIS, sp. nN. 
Black; thorax bright green, impunctate, the sides gradually 
flattened; elytra black or eneous, deeply foveolate, the lateral 
and apical margins green. 
Length 7 millim. 
Of medially slightly widened shape ; the head black, impunctate, 
frontal elevations broad and convex ; clypeus triangularly widened, 
not ridge-shaped; antenne black, the third and fourth joints 
equal; thorax not more than twice as broad as long, rather 
widened at the sides, the lateral margins feebly rounded, anterior 
margin concave, its angles moderately produced, not toothed, the 
