412 MR, MARTIN JACOBY ON NEW SPECIES [NoV. 28, 



another one below the middle, and a short oblique stripe near the 

 apex flavous. 



Yar. a. The elytral transverse band and the spots absent. 



Var. 6. Elytra as in the type, but the spots absent. 



Yar, c. Tlie transverse band indicated by a sutural and lateral 

 spot ; the other spots wanting. 



Yar. d. Like var. c, but the apical stripe as well as tlie spots 

 wanting. 



Length 7 millim. 



Head entirely impunctate, with the exception of one or two 

 punctures near the eyes, the f'l-ontal elevations broadly ti'ansverse ; 

 clypeus flavous, with an acutely raised central ridge ; antennae 

 dark fulvous, extending slightly below the middle of the elytra, 

 the third and foui-th joints equal ; thorax strongly transverse, the 

 lateral margins rounded, the anterior angles thickened but not 

 dentiform, the sides with a longitudinal groove, flattened, the 

 surface imjDunctate, fulvous or flavous, posterioi- margin nearly 

 straight ; scutellum black ; elytra impunctate, but the paler 

 markings with minute fuscous spots, the ground-colour metallic 

 greenish cupreous, the lateral margins, elytral epipleurfe, a narrow 

 transverse band at the middle, a small spot near the scutellum, 

 another below the middle near the suture, and a short oblique 

 streak near the apex at the sides flavous ; under side piceous ; the 

 anterior legs more or less pale, the metatarsus of the posterior 

 legs as long as the following two joints ; claws luther strongly 

 swollen. 



Hah. Peru, Prov. Huallaga ; also Bolivia. 



The type of this species, from which I have draAvn the above 

 description, is not difficult to distinguish from others, on account 

 of the elytral markings, and is principally separated by the sub- 

 apical short flavous streak which is connected with the similarly 

 coloured lateral stripe. Some of the varieties, however, are 

 without this mark, and consequently resemble several other 

 similarly coloured species ; there is, liowever, nearly always the 

 indication of the transverse band in shape of a small flavous 

 suttii-al spot at the middle and a corresponding one opposite at 

 the mai-gins ; the thorax has the sides well defined by a deep 

 longitudinal g]:'oove, and the claw-joint is more strongly swollen 

 than in many other species of the genus. 



Of var. d two specimens are before me. In these the elytral 

 spots and band are absent, but, as usual, the sutural remnant of 

 the band is present, and instead of the subapical short streak 

 there is a widening of the flavous lateral margin at the coi-- 

 responding place, thus indicating the typical mark. Oedionychis 

 dijnis 111. is of exactly similar coloration, but is a true Oediooiychis 

 with a short posterior metatarsus. 



AsPHiERA ELEGANTULA, Sp. U. (Plate XIY. fig. 6.) 



Black ; clypeus and the thorax flavous, the latter impunctate ; 

 elytra bright metallic blue, impunctate ; a narrow transverse band 



