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at the middle and another near the apex, as well as the lateral 

 margins, fiavous. 



Length 8-9 millim. 



Head black, shining, with a few deep pnnctures near the eyes ; 

 the latter large, widely separated ; clj^Deus acutely triangularly 

 raised, flavous ; lahrum black, with a row of punctures ; antennae 

 long and slender, black ; thoiux short and strongly transverse, the 

 sides feebly rounded anteriorly, straight at the base, the anterior 

 angles thickened and j^roduced, the sides broadly flattened, with a 

 thickened margin, the flat portion well defined from the convex 

 surface, the latter impunctate, obsoletely transversely depressed or 

 grooved near the base ; scutellum broad, black ; elytra with a 

 distinct depression below the base, not perceptibly piinctured, 

 bright metallic blue ; the lateral margins, the epipleurse, and two 

 naiTOw transverse bands flavous — of these the first is placed at the 

 middle and extends quite to the suture, the second one is situated 

 very near the apex, not quite extending to the suture and 

 of slightly upwai'd direction ; metatarsus elongate, claw-joint 

 moderately thickened ; the anterior femora more or less stained 

 Avith flavous at the extreme base. 



Hah. Peru, Prov. Huallaga {G. A. Baer). 



Of this handsome species I have received several specimens from 

 M. Clavareau, of Brussels. I know no other species with similar 

 shaped and same number of bands. 



Elytra blue. 



ASPH^RA TIBIALIS, Sp. n. 



Pale flavous, the head, antennte, tibise, and tarsi black ; thorax 

 impunctate ; elj'tra metallic blue, impunctate. 



Length 7 millim. 



Head entirely impunctate, black; clypeus acutely raised, tri- 

 angular, slightly stained with flavous, palpi robust ; antennse 

 extending below the middle of the elytra, black, third joint 

 slightly shoi-ter than the fourth ; thorax with the sides gradually 

 flattened, with narrow thickened mai-gins, the anterior angles 

 thickened but not dentiform and scarcely produced, the disc 

 impunctate, flavous ; scutellum black ; elytra with a shallow trans- 

 verse depression below the base, entirely impunctate, dark metallic 

 blue, below flavous ; the tibiae and tarsi black, extreme base of the 

 posterior tibife flavous; claw- joint moderately thickened. 



Hah. Amazons, 



Of this species, distinguished by its system of colora,tion, five 

 specimens ax-e contained in my collection. 



Elytra with longitudinal fulvoi(,s hands. 



ASPHiERA FERRUGINEO-VITTATA, Sp. n. 



Elongate, subparall el, testaceous; thorax with strongly rounded 

 and broadly flattened sides, impunctate ; elytra with a narrow 



