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elytra with the basal portion rather convex, impunctate, inetaUic 

 blue, the lateral mai-gins and a rather narrow transverse band at 

 the middle testaceous, epipleuife of the latter colour ; below and 

 the legs black ; metatarsus rather elongate, claAv- joint scai'cely 

 swollen. 



Hah. Peru. 



The black band of the thorax and the strongly dentate and pro- 

 duced anterior angles of the latter, together with the nearly simple 

 claw-joint, principally characterise this species. 



Elytra metallic, ivlth jiavoics margins. 

 AsPHJERA ALBiciifCTA, sp. n. (Plate XIY. fig. 4.) 



Black, thorax pale flavous, impunctate ; elytra metallic blue, the 

 disc foveolate and rugose, the lateral margins yellowish -white ; 

 abdomen flavous. 



Length 9-10 millim. 



Of ovately-elongate shape, rounded below the middle ; the head 

 black, with some few punctm-es near the eyes, longitudinally 

 grooved between the latter ; antenniB extending to the middle of 

 the elytra, black, the third, fourth, and fifth joints equal, the 

 following ones shorter; thorax with gradually flattened sides, 

 the anterior margin deeply concave, anterior angles slightly 

 produced into a small tooth, thickened, the disc entirely im- 

 punctate, pale yellowish ; scutellum black ; elytra bright metallic 

 blue or purplish, variolose-punctate, the interstices strongly 

 wrinkled or rugose, the lateral margins to the apex whitish ; 

 breast and legs black ; metatarsus elongate, claw- joint slightly 

 swollen ; abdomen flavous. 



Hab. Peru. 



Of the same coloration as Asjihcera (Asjncela) albomargiaata 

 Latr., and of nearly similar sculpturing, iDut a true Asphcera (like 

 the last-named species) on account of the metasternum not being- 

 truncate anteriorly ; in Lati'eille's insect the thorax is margined 

 with black and the elytral fove?e ai'e lai'ger and less numerous. 



Elytra variously coloured, toith transverse ixde hands or 

 toith S2i0ts. 



ASPH^RA BISBIPLAGIATA, sp. n. 



Obscure fulvous or fuscous, the head and the antennae black ; 

 thorax yellowish white ; elytra impunctate, each with two white 

 bands, one transversely shaped at the middle, the other more 

 rounded near the apex. 



Length 7 millim. 



Head with some deep punctures near the eyes, the vertex 

 nearly black, the frontal elevations bounded behind by a veiy deep 

 transverse groove ; base of the antennas flavous, the basal two 

 joints piceous, the others black ; thorax with the anterior margin 

 straight, the sides not flattened, but the lateral margins gradually 



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