1905. | OF PHYLOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. ALT 
elevations rather broad and flat, transverse ; clypeus in shape of 
an acutely raised triangular ridge; antenne rather long and 
slender, black, the third and fourth joints equal; thorax about 
twice and a half broader than long, flavous, the lateral margins 
straight at the base, feebly rounded anteriorly, narrowly thickened, 
the anterior angles produced forwards and strongly thickened, 
the sides deeply sulcate, the dise impunctate, obsoletely trans- 
versely sulcate near the base; scutellum black; elytra with the 
basal portion rather strongly raised, impunctate, flavous, marked 
with bands of metallic green or purplish in various ways; the 
breast and legs black, the base of the femora more or iess and 
the abdomen flavous. 
Hab. Peru. 
This is evidently a most variable species as regards coloration, 
but I have little doubt that ail the forms represent but one 
species, as not the slightest structural difference seems to be 
present. In one form the elytra (if the testaceous colour.is taken 
for that of the ground, which is justified by the similarly coloured 
epipleure) have the anterior two-thirds occupied by a metallic 
band, including a flavous spot near the scutellum and another 
narrow transver se band near the apex extending upwards along 
the suture, the lateral and apical margins remaining flavous ; in 
var. @ the metallic colour is interrupted by a narrow transverse 
band at the middle and another below the latter near the apex ; 
in var. 6 there 1s only a single rather broad band near the apex 
and connected with the flavous lateral margins; the abdomen in 
all these forms remains flavous; the metatarsus of the posterior 
legs is as long as the following two joints together, and the 
claw-joint is strongly swollen. 
A. variegata resembles a great deal A. apicalis, but is always 
larger, and the apical elytral flavous band is not placed so near 
the apex as in the last-named species, and the antennz are black 
and the abdomen flavous. 
ASPHERA BASIMACULATA, sp. 1. 
Oblong, nearly parallel, testaceous, the intermediate joints of 
the antenne piceous; eyes rather closely approached ; sides of 
thorax nearly straight, impunctate; elytra impunctate, each with 
two elongate short stripes at the base and a small spot (sometimes 
absent) near the apex. 
Length 4 millim. 
Head impunctate, frontal elevations subquadrate, eyes large 
and rather closely approached; antennz slender, extending to 
the middle of the elytra, the lower four and the apical three 
joints testaceous, the others black or piceous, basal joint thickened 
and elongate, third and fourth equal, terminal joints shorter ; 
thorax scarcely twice as broad as -long, gradually narrowed 
anteriorly, the lateral margins straight, anterior angles pointed 
in shape of a small tooth, the sides strongly flattened, the disc 
impunctate, basal margin somewhat thickened and accompanied 
