404 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON NEW SPECIES [Nov. 28, 



Length 6 millim. 



Head impunctate, black ; eyes distant, frontal elevations oblique, 

 i-athei' broad ; clypeus very narrow, strongly thickened, carina 

 veiy convex ; antenna? long and slender, fulvous, third and following 

 joints slender, equal or ^^early so ; thoi'ax about twice as broad as 

 long, the latei-al margins feebly rounded, the anterior angles 

 bluntly produced, the lateral sulci deep and broad, the surface 

 impunctate, pale flavous ; scutelhim triangular, black ; elytra with 

 naiTow but strongly reflexed lateral margins, yellowish-white, 

 with two transverse blue bands not extending to the lateral 

 margins, the first extending to about one-third of the length of 

 the elytra, with its posterior edge neai-ly straight, the second band 

 below the middle, of only half the width and of obliquely down- 

 ward direction ; breast and legs black, abdomen testaceous ; meta- 

 tarsus elongate, claw-joint very moderately swollen. 



Hah. Carillo, Costa Rica. 



The black head, fulvous antennae, and the shaj)e of the elytral 

 bands principally distinguish this Asphcera ; the elytra have the 

 basal portion I'ather distinctly raised, but the intrahumeral 

 depression is but moderately deep. I have three exactly similar 

 specimens before me. 



From A. nigrofasciata Jac, likewise from Costa Rica, the 

 present species may be separated by the fulvous colour of the 

 antenn8e, the blue, not black, elytral bands, the much more 

 narrow, reflexed margins of the elytra, and the rather smaller 

 general size and more widened shape, 



AsPH^RA ZONULATA, sp. n. (Plate XIV. fig. 7.) 



Black below, antenna and legs more or less piceous, above 

 liavous ; thorax impunctate, the anteiioi- angles produced ; elytra 

 very finely punctured, with foui- metallic green transverse bands, 

 much widened towards the suture, which is likewise metallic 

 green. 



Length 7 millim. 



Of medially widened shape ; the head more oi- less piceous at the 

 vertex, the lower portion fulvous ; eyes modei'ately large, with a 

 few punctures near their inner margins ; clypeus in shape of a 

 transvei'se ridge ; antenna? nearly black, the third joint smaller 

 than the fourth ; thorax with strongly rounded lateral margins, 

 the anterior angles produced into a small tooth, the sides broadly 

 and deeply sulcate, the surface impunctate, flavous, obsoletely 

 transversely grooved near the base ; scutellum black ; elytra con- 

 vex, broadly margined, widest at the middle, very finely punctured 

 throughout, flavous, with four bi-ight green metallic bands, not 

 extending to the margins — of these, the one at the base is the 

 widest and has its posterior margin obliquely I'ounded, it extends 

 as far as the shoulders, the second band at the middle is connected 

 with the first along the suture by a rather broad stripe of green, 

 its ends are greatly narrowed, the third band below the middle is 

 of similar shape, l^ut the fourth near the apex is of a shorter and 



