1905.] OF PHYTOPHAGOUS COLBOPTERA, 405 



broader form, the suture connects all these lower bands by a 

 narrow metallic green stripe ; metatarsus elongate, claw-joint 

 strongly swollen. 



Hah. Peru. 



Different in the number and shape of its elytral bands from 

 any other species ; two exactly similar specimens are contained in 

 my collection. 



ASPH^ERA VERNALIS, Sp. n. 



Piceous, the lower part of the face and the thorax flavous, sides 

 of the latter broadly flattened, disc impunctate ; elytra flavous or 

 pale fulvous, with two transverse violaceous bands, one at the 

 base, the other below the middle, not extending to the sides or 

 apex. 



Length 6-6 1 millim. 



Head with a few punctures near the eyes ; the vertex nearly 

 black, the frontal tubercles and the clypeus flavous ; antennae 

 piceous or black, the lower three joints obscure fulvous ; thorax 

 slightly narrowed anteriorly, the sides with a rather broad flattened 

 margin, the anterior angles dentifonn, the disc impunctate, 

 yellowish-white ; scutellum black ; elyti-a impunctate, flavous, the 

 basal transverse blue or violaceous band nearly extending to the 

 middle, the lower band of equal width, not extending to the 

 apex, both bands are limited laterally by the broadly reflexed 

 lateral margins, the flavous band which separates the darker ones 

 at the middle is of about half the width (in a longitudinal 

 sense) than the blue bands ; breast and legs piceous, the base of 

 the femora rather lighter ; abdomen flavous ; claw-joint scarcely 

 thickened. 



Hah. Br. Guiana. 



This is another species with transverse blue bands of which so 

 many ai'e known, yet there is none which agrees entirely with the 

 present one. A. cemula Illig. is described as over 4-1- lines in length, 

 the thorax as having the sides obsoletely flattened, while in this 

 species it is very distinctly marked : the colour of the head is given 

 a„s testaceous and the median pale band as broad, Avhile in A . vei'nalis 

 this band is of only half the width of that of the dark bands 

 These remarks also apply to A. ornata Illig. A. curialis Erichs. 

 has the posterior band much narrowei- and the pale division 

 broader ; in A . limitata Har. the posterior blue band is still 

 narrower, and there are other difierences besides. 



ASPH^RA SEPARATA, Sp. n. 



Black ; thorax fulvous, impunctate ; elytra pale testaceous, 

 impunctate, a broad transverse band at the base, not extending to 

 the lateral margins, and another band at the apex, dark violaceous. 



Length 6 millim. 



Head black, shining, impunctate ; eyes large, elongate, frontal 

 elevations very broad but feebly raised, clypeus with an acute 

 central ridge ; antennte black, the third and fourth joints equal. 



