402 MR. MARTIN JACOBY OX NEAV SPECIES [Nov. 28, 



Length 7 millim. 



Head entirely impunctate, veiy light testaceous ; eyes well 

 separated, moderately large, frontal elevations narrowly transverse ; 

 antennpe slender, black, the apical two joints sometimes pale, the 

 third and fourth eqnal ; thorax with broadly rounded and flattened 

 sides, the sulci strongly marked, the disc impunctate, testaceous, 

 with the anterior and posterior margins black at the middle, the 

 anterior angles not mucronate but slightly produced ; scutellum 

 more or less fuscous ; elytra rather convex, very closely and finely 

 punctured ; the breast, tibia?, and tarsi moi'e or less piceous ; the 

 metatai'sus distinctly elongate, the claw-joint strongly swollen. 



Hah. Bolivia. 



This species may easily be mistaken for one of the varieties of 

 Oedionychis alhipennis Jac, but it is of a more convex shape, the 

 eyes are much more widely separated, the intermediate space is 

 very light- coloured and entirely impunctate, and the metatai'sus 

 of the posterior legs is distinctly more elongate. 



ASPH^RA TARSATA, sp. n. (Plate XIV. fig. 10.) 



Head, antenna?, and thorax, under side and legs black ; thorax 

 with broadly flattened sides, impunctate ; elytra obscure testaceous, 

 finely and closely punctured ; metatai-sus of the posterior legs 

 elongate and slender, claw-joint strongly swollen. 



Length 8 millim. 



Head impunctate, black, fi'ontal tubercles very strongly 

 developed, trigonate, carina convex ; antenna? black, the lower three 

 joints shining, the others pubescent, the intermediate joints 

 slightly widened, third and fourth joints equal ; thorax with strongly 

 rounded and broadly flattened sides, anterior margins blunt and 

 slightly produced outwards, more oi- less testaceous, the rest of the 

 sui'face black ; scutellum black ; elytra convex, widened towards 

 the middle, with broadly reflexed margins, the base without 

 depi'ession, closely, finely, but distinctly granulate-punctate ; under 

 side and legs black. 



Hah. Peru. 



The more than usual elongate and slender metatarsus and 

 the strongly swollen claw-joint and system of coloration well 

 distinguish this species, of Avhich I possess a single specimen. 



ASPH.ERA XASALIS, Sp. n. 



Black, the head and the sides of the thorax anteriorly pale 

 testaceous, the anterior angles mucronate ; elytra testaceous, finely 

 and closely punctured ; caiina of the head very broad. 



Length 7| millim. 



Head pale testaceous, shining, impunctate ; eyes widely separated, 

 frontal elevations broadly oblique, carina very broad and convex ; 

 antennse long and slender, black, third and fourth joints very 

 elongate, equal ; thorax more than twice as broad as long, the 

 sides broadly flattened and rounded, the anterior angles mucro- 



