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sutural and an equally narrow discoiclal longitudinal band, 

 feiTugineous. 



Length 6 niillim. 



Head impunctate or with a few fine punctures ; eyes large, the 

 diameter of each as wide as the intermediate space, frontal 

 elevations subquadrate, carina short and blunt ; antennae scai'cely 

 extending to the middle of the elytia, pale fulvous, basal joint 

 robust and elongate, third joint slightly shorter than fourth, 

 terminal joints shorter than the intermediate ones ; thorax short, 

 the sides broadly sulcate, anterior angles with a short tooth, the 

 disc impunctate, with an obsolete transverse sulcus near the base ; 

 elytra nearly parallel, somewhat flattened, finely and closely 

 punctured, testaceous, the suture very nari'owly ferrugineous ; 

 a similar, slightly and inwardly curved band extends from the 

 shoulders to near the apex ; metatarsus as long as the following 

 two joints together, claw-joint strongly swollen ; prosternum 

 linear. 



Hah. Bolivia. 



The elytral dark bands are very narrow and of equal v/idth 

 and the discoidal one is of slightly curved shape. The species, on 

 account of the distinctly elongate metatarsus of the posterior 

 legs, cannot be mistaken for a similarly coloured species of 

 Oedionychis. 



Elytra otherivise marked. 



AsPHiERA LACERATA, sp. n. 



Elongate and parallel, black ; thorax dark fulvous, impunctate, 

 the anterior angles produced and blunt ; elytiu finely rugose 

 anteriorly, impunctate, black, a round patch at the base, a small 

 one at the shoulders, a transverse subdivided patch at the middle, 

 and another at the apex, testaceous. 



Length 9 millim. 



Head black, impunctate, the frontal elevations broad and flat ; 

 clypeus in shape of a strongly raised triangular ridge ; eyes Avidely 

 separated ; antennae black, long, the third and following joints 

 equal ; thorax transversely subquadrate, convex, of equal width, 

 the lateral margins nearly straight, accompanied by veiy deep and 

 narrow sulci, the anterior angles blunt and produced forwards, 

 the disc impuncate, dark fvilvous ; scutellum black ; elytra with 

 narrow but deeply reflexed lateral margins, furnished with fine 

 rugosities anteriorly but without punctuation, each elytron with 

 four testaceous or pale flavous patches, which are separated by 

 narrow transverse black bands before and below the middle, at 

 the latter place the band sends off a spur towards the suture, 

 thereby subdividing the preceding flavous portion ; all the mai'gins 

 of the elytra as well as a humeral stripe and the epipleur?e are 

 likewise black ; of the same colour are the under side and the legs. 



Hah. Peru. 



I have only a single specimen of this somewhat peculiar species 

 lief ore me ; whether the fine elytral rugosities to be seen at the 



