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disc impunctate, gradually flattened at the sides, bright green, 
shining; scutellum black, trigonate; elytra broadly margined, 
with elongate deep fovez, placed in about six longitudinal rows, 
the interstices strongly reticulate and confluent, the lateral 
margins rather broadly green,. furnished with single hairs near 
the apex, rest of the surface shining black or bronze; under side 
and legs black; metatarsus elongate; claw-joint but slightly 
swollen. 
Hab. Yeuador. 
At once distinguished from A. inequalis Krichs. by the green 
thorax and sides of the elytra and by the entirely black breast and 
abdomen. I know of no similarly coloured species. 
ASPHHRA TESSELLATA, sp. n. (Plate XIV. fig. 8.) 
Black, head spotted with flavous ; thorax impunctate, flavous, 
with a transverse black band; elytra extremely minutely pune- 
tured, flavous, two elongate spots at the base, a narrow transverse 
band below the middle, and a spot near the apex black. 
Length 8 millim. 
Head impunctate, black, the eyes surrounded by a flavous 
band, frontal elevations narrow, strongly raised, lower portion of 
face pale fulvous, labrum piceous; antenne black, rather short, 
the basal joint fulvous below, third and fourth joints equal; 
thorax twice as broad as long, slightly arched, the sides flattened, 
with a narrow thickened margin which gradually widens an- 
teriorly, the angles strongly thickened and produced, the disc 
impunctate, flavous, with a transverse black band, the anterior 
edge of which is concave and irregular in outline; scutellum 
black; elytra extremely minutely and closely punctured, flavous, 
the base with two elongate black spots, a short transverse black 
band placed much below the middle and another triangular spot 
near the apex complete the design of each elytron; under side 
and legs black; metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as the 
following two joints together, claw-joint strongly swollen. 
Hab. Brazil. 
I know only a single specimen of this well-marked and distinct 
species, without precise locality. 
ASPHZRA VARIEGATA, Sp. 0. 
Black; the clypeus, thorax, and abdomen flavous; elytra 
metallic green or obscure purplish, impunctate; a round spot. 
near the scutellum, a transverse band near the apex, and the 
lateral margins flavous. 
Var. a. Elytra with a narrow transverse band at the middle 
and another one near the apex, as well as the lateral margins, 
flavous, the basal spot absent. 
Var. 6. Elytra with a single band near the apex and the 
margins flavous. 
Length 7-72 millim. 
Head impunctate, the vertex black, the clypeus flavous, frontal 
