418 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON NEW SPECIES [ Nov. 28, 
by a more or less distinct sulcus; scutellum broad, testaceous ; 
elytra nearly parallel, minutely punctured, testaceous, each elytron 
with two short black stripes, one placed on the shoulders, tlie 
other near the scutellum, occupying about a fifth of the length of 
the elytra, near the apex at the sides is another small piceous or 
black spot which is sometimes obsolete or wanting; metatarsus 
of the posterior legs rather elongate. 
Hab. Peru: Prov. Huallaga, Rio Mixiollo (Baer). 
ASPH#ERA DIVISA, sp. n. (Plate XIV. fig. 9.) 
Fulvous, the antenne, the breast, and the abdomen black ; head, 
thorax, and elytra impunctate, the last fulvous, their apical half 
metallic purplish-violaceous. 
Length 8 millim. 
Head with a single deep puncture and a few finer punctures 
near the eyes, fulvous : frontal elevations very broad and wide; 
clypeus acutely 1 raised ; labrum black; elytra long and slender, 
black, the basal joint ‘Briones thorax narrowed anteriorly, the 
sides gradually flattened, the anterior angles produced into a short 
tooth, the disc entirely impunctate, fulvous; elytra widened 
towards the middle, with broad reflexed margins, the anterior 
half fulvous, the other portion metallic violaceous or purplish, the 
anterior edge of this colour rounded at the sides, also extending to 
the epipleure; breast, abdomen, the anterior and intermediate 
tibie and tarsi and the posterior legs black, the femora of the 
anterior and intermediate legs fulvous; claw-joint but slightly 
swollen. 
Hab, Marcapata, Peru. 
The purplish colour of the posterior portion of the elytra some- 
times extends rather higher upwards than the middle; I know of 
no other similarly marked species of Asphera. 
ASPHERA FUSCOFASCIATA, Sp. Nn. 
Head, the antenne, the underside, and legs obscure piceous; 
thorax yellowish white, with five obsolete fuscous spots ; elytra im- 
punctate, pale yellowish, with four transverse fuscous bands, the 
first divided into two spots. 
Length 8-9 millim. 
Head impunctate, piceous, the clypeus flavous; antenne with 
the lower seven joints piceous or dark fulvous (the others wanting), 
the third joint slightly shorter than the fourth ; thorax without a 
distinct flattening of the sides, but with the lateral margins 
thickened as well as the anterior angles which are produced 
forward, the surface impunctate, nearly white, the disc with five 
obsolete, more or less confluent fuscous spots, of which the three 
at the middle are better defined and placed triangularly ; scutellum 
fuscous ; elytra entirely impunctate, of yellowish-white ground- 
colour, with four transverse fuscous bands, one at the base and 
separated into two spots, the second near the middle, the third 
below the latter, and the fourth at the apex, all these bands are 
