1905.] OF PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 401 



punctate, frontal elevations bi-oad, feebly raised, clypeiis broad 

 and thick ; eyes widely separated, not very jorominent ; antennae 

 long and slender, black, third and following joints very elongate, 

 nearly equal ; thorax about twice as broad as long, the sides 

 widened, the lateral margins strongly rounded, the anterior angles 

 strongly produced and pointed, the surface impunctate, the lateral 

 sulci broad but shallow, testaceous, the middle of the disc black ; 

 scutelhim black ; elytra with strongly reflexed lateral margins, 

 the posterior portion convex and widened, the surface impunctate, 

 testaceous ; posterior femora less thickened than usual, the 

 metatarsus very elongate ; claw-joint scarcely, if at all, swollen ; 

 prosternura very narrow. 



Hah. Bogota. 



This Asphctira differs in more than one respect from the other 

 members of the genus : the slender antennae, widened sides of the 

 thorax, and the but moderately thickened posterior femoi*a are not 

 found in any other species, to my knowledge, and agree rather 

 with the genus Aspicela, but the perfectly normal shape of the 

 mesosternum prevents the insect from being included in that 

 genus. I know of only a single specimen, 



ASPH.^RA HILARIS, sp. n. 



Entirely pale testaceous ; eyes rather large, antennae pale fulvous 

 or testaceous, thorax with gradually flattened sides, elytra not 

 perceptibly punctured, metatarsus of the posterior legs elongate, 

 claws swollen. 



Length 7-8 millim. 



Head impunctate, testaceous, shining ; the eyes projoortionately 

 closel}^ approached and rather large ; antennae extending to the 

 middle of the elytra, obscure fulvous ; thorax with feebly rounded 

 sides, slightly narrowed anteriorly, the anterior margin concave, 

 anterior angles thickened but only very slightly pi'oduced, the sides 

 gradually flattened, the disc imjjunctate ; elyti-a with a very shallow 

 depression below the base, with broadly reflexed lateral margins, 

 the surface entirely impunctate, shining ; under side coloured as 

 the upper surface, legs slightly darker; the metatarsus of the 

 posterior legs nearly as long as the following joints together, claw- 

 joints distinctly swollen. 



Rab. Espirito Santo, Brazil. 



An apparently rather common species of unicolorous appearance, 

 which may be known by the gradually flattened sides of the thorax 

 and the more than usually thickened claws ; the elongate meta- 

 tarsus shows, however, the species to belong to As2)hcera. A.2xdlida 

 Jac, is a much larger and broader species, with a black head. 



ASPHJERA ALBIFR,0NS, Sp. n. 



Testaceous, the antennas black (apical three joints sometimes 

 pale), the breast piceous, the head whitish-testaceous, thorax with 

 the anterior and posterior margins black at the middle, elytiu 

 finely punctured. 



