1905.] OF PHYTOPnAGOUS COLEOPTfiRA. 407 



broaclei" band below the middle and interrupted at the outer 

 portion, obscure brownish-psneous. 



Length 6-7 millim. 



Head sparingly punctured at the vertex, the latter piceous or 

 blackish ; eyes veiy large, each as broad as the dividing space ; 

 antenna? long and slender, black, the lower joints sometimes 

 testaceous at the base, veiy elongate with the exception of the 

 second one ; thorax with flattened and well- separated sides, the 

 anterior margin but little concave, the angles produced outwards 

 into a truncate tooth, the surface impunctate, pale testaceous ; 

 scutellum broad, black ; elytra with distinct basal depression, very 

 finely punctured, with nari'ow reflexed lateral margins, pale 

 testaceous or whitish, with two broad dark brown bands with 

 greenish gloss, the first at the base, not extending to the lateral 

 margins, the other band of much longer shape, not extending to 

 the sides or apex of the elytra, at its outer edge it is semidivided 

 by a narrow stripe of the ground-colour ; under side piceous or 

 black ; metatarsus as long as the following two joints together, 

 claw-joint distinctly swollen. 



Hah. Peru. 



There are two specimens of this species before me, which is well 

 distinguished by the 23i'oduced, truncate, anterior thoracic angles 

 and the markings of the elytra ; the ground-colour of the latter is 

 in one specimen of a pinkish-white tint, in the other obscure 

 testaceous, the dark bands are divided at the middle by the 

 narrow transverse stripe of the ground-colour. 



ASPPIiERA BREVICOLLIS, sp. n. 



Piceous, legs black, the head and antennae fulvous ; thorax 

 scarcely twice as broad as long, flavous, impunctate ; elytra 

 impunctate, flavous, a broad transverse band at the base and 

 a transverse spot belov/ the middle metallic green. 



Length 7 millim. 



Head impu^nctate, fulvous; frontal elevations broad, divided by 

 a deep groove and bounded behind by a narrow, more shallow 

 sulcus ; clypeus strongly raised in shape of a broad triangular 

 ridge ; eyes widely separated ; antennas extending to the middle of 

 the elytra, dark fulvous, the third joint shoiter than the fourth ; 

 thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, the sides obliquely naiTowed 

 anteriorly, the lateral sulci I'ather narrow, the anterior angles 

 thickened and strongly produced, the surface impunctate, flavous ; 

 scutellum black ; elytra slightly widened towards the middle, 

 distinctly dej)ressed below the base, flavous, with two bright 

 metallic-gi'een transverse bands, the first at the base extending 

 downwards to about one-third the length of the elytra, the other 

 in shape of a large slightly oblique spot, below the middle, neither 

 of the bands extending to the lateral margins ; breast and abdomen 

 piceous, legs black ; metatarsus elongate, claw- joint but slightly 

 swollen. 



Hah. Peru. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1905, Yol. II. No XXVIII. 28 



