408 BIR. MARTIN JACOBY ON NEW SPECIES [NoV. 28, 



The comparatively small width of the thorax and the widely 

 sepai'ated elytral green bands, in connection with the fulvous head 

 and antennae, distinguish this species, which is evidently closely 

 allied to A. oUecta Baly ; but the head has no punctures nor 

 hairs, the thorax is certainly not " more than twice as broad 

 as long," and the elytra are not furnished with hairs at the apical 

 margins. 



ASPH^EA DIMIDIATICORNIS, sp. U. 



Flavous, head piceous, the intermediate joints of the antennse 

 black ; thorax ilavous, impunctate ; elytra not perceptibly punc- 

 tured, pale flavous, a transverse band at the base and a broader 

 one below the middle metallic green ; legs fulvous. 



Length 6 millim. 



Head impunctate, the vertex piceous ; frontal elevations strongly 

 raised, pyriform ; clypeus flavous, semicircular, with an acute 

 central ridge ; eyes very large, the diameter of each larger than 

 the dividing space ; antennss long and slender, the lower and the 

 apical three joints fulvous, the rest black, third and fourth joints 

 very elongate, equal, apical joints shorter ; thorax twice as broad 

 as long, slightly narrowed anteriorly, the anterior angles pointed 

 but not produced, lateral margins evenly rounded, preceded by a 

 broad sulcation, the surface impunctate, flavous; scutellum fulvous; 

 elytra widened at the middle, yellowish-white, with two broad 

 transverse metallic -green bands, not extending to the lateral 

 margins, the first extending from the base to nearly the middle, 

 the second immediately below the latter and abbreviated at some 

 distance from the apex, both bands are of nearly subquadrate 

 shape ; the breast and the legs pale fulvous, abdomen flavous, the 

 tarsi obsciire piceous ; the metatarsus moderately elongate, claw- 

 joint strongly swollen. 



Hah. Ecuador. 



Distinguished by the colour of the head and the antennae, the 

 large eyes and broad elytral bands, pale legs, &c. 



ASPH^RA DEJEANI, Sp. n. 



Black ; thorax impunctate, testaceous, the entii'e disc black ; 

 elytra impunctate, testaceous, a bi'oad band at the base and 

 another below the middle, not extending to the lateral margins, 

 metallic blue ; claw-joint scarcely swollen. 



Length 8 millim. 



Head with some punctures near the eyes, black, frontal elevations 

 strongly luised, narrow and transvei^se; antennee extending beyond 

 the middle of the elytra, black, all the joints elongate and slender-, 

 the third and fourth equal ; thorax twice as broad as long, the 

 lateral margins scarcely rounded, the anterior angles more than 

 usually produced and pointed (in one specimen to a much smaller 

 extent), anterior margin concave, the sides broadly but not deeply 

 sulcate, testaceous as well as the extreme base, the rest of the 

 surface occupied by a transverse black band ; scutellum black ; 



