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band below the middle, the sutural margin at the same place and 

 the extreme apex likewise black, neither of the black bands extends 

 to the lateral margins ; under side nnd legs black ; metatarsus 

 elongate, claw-joint scarcely swollen. 



Hah. Prov. Huallaga, Peru. 



Of this species I i-eceived two specimens from M. Olavareau, of 

 Brussels, In one of them the antennae ai-e shorter and the elytral 

 black band at the base is straighter than in the other, otherwise 

 there is no difference. The species is closely allied to H. holmiana 

 Kirsch, but in that species the elytral bands are metallic or 

 aeneous in colour, they extend always to the lateral margins, and 

 the latter as well as the epipleura? are black, not fulvous, the 

 posterior band also is wider than in the present insect, 



HoMOPHCETA PERUViA>-A*, sp. n. (Plate XIY. fig. 2.) 



Vertex of the head, antennpe, the breast and legs black ; thorax 

 fulvous, impunctate; elytra metallic blue, impunctate, with a 

 narrow, tiunsverse, flavous band near the apex ; abdomen flavous. 



Length 7 millim. 



Elongate and parallel, the head with a few punctures near the 

 eyes, the vertex black, the intraocular space, the clypeus, and the 

 labrum fulvous ; antenna? very long, extending below the middle 

 of the elytra, black, the lower three joints more or less fulvous 

 below, third and following joints very neai-ly equal ; thorax twice 

 as broad as long, the lateral margins straight at the base, widened 

 towards the apex, the sides strongly thickened and deeply sxilcate, 

 the anterior angles greatly produced, the surface impunctate, 

 fulvous ; scutellum black ; elytra with a deep depression below 

 the base, impunctate, bright metallic green, with a narrow 

 yellowish-white transverse band near the apex, not quite extending 

 to either margin ; legs black, the base of the femora often flavous ; 

 the breast black ; the metatarsus elongate ; claw-joints scarcely 

 thickened. 



Hah. Pachitea, Peru {Dr. Staudinger). 



This is a handsome and typical Homo'phmta, unlike any other 

 species of the genus ; the characteristic fulvous spot between the 

 antennfe and the shape of the thorax agree entirely with its 

 allies. I have received several specimens from Dr. Staudinger 

 and Herr Bang-Haas. 



Genus Asph.era. 



Elytra pale coloured. 



AsPHyERA UNICOLOR, Sp. n. 



Subdepressed, testaceous, antennae and legs slightly darker ; 

 thorax shoi't, the anterior angles mucronate, anterior margin 

 deeply concave ; elytra minutely and closely punctured. 



Length 7 millim. 



Of rather flattened, scarcely postei-iorly widened shape ; tlie 



* For the descriptions of two other new species of Ho mophceta, inad\erteiitly 

 omitted from this paper, see infra p. 591. 



