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anterior portion of the elytra are normal or accidental, I am 

 unable to say. The design of the elytra resembles that of Homo- 

 phceta ^-guttata Fab., but in that insect the vertex of the head has 

 the characteristic white or iiavous patch and the clypeus is of 

 similar coloration ; the elytra are smooth, and the intermediate 

 flavous patch is never subdivided ; in the Peru species the meta- 

 tarsus is moderately elongate and the claw-joint rather strongly 

 swollen. 



AsPHiERA xiTiDissiMA, S|). n. (Plate XIV. fig. 5.) 



Broadly ovate, black ; clypeus fulvous ; thorax strongly trans- 

 verse, fulvous, anterior angles toothed ; elytra strongly convex, 

 minutely punctured, bright metallic gi'een, the lateral and apical 

 margins and a narrow transverse band at the middle flavous or 

 fulvous. 



Length 10 millim. 



Head impunctate, blackish ; frontal elevations ti-ansverse, 

 bounded by a deep groove behind ; clypeus fulvous, acutely cari- 

 nate at the middle ; diameter of each eye of less width than the 

 dividing space ; antennae long and slender, extending below the 

 middle of the elytra, black, the third joint shorter than the fourth; 

 thorax more than twice as broad as long, the lateral margins 

 strongly rounded, deeply and broadly sulcate, the anterior angles 

 strongly produced into a blunt tooth, the disc impunctate, fulvous, 

 sometimes marked with two small fulvoxis spots ; scutellum black ; 

 elytra broad, convex and widened posteriorly, deeply sulcate 

 within the shoulders and \\T.tli another shallow depression below 

 the base, very minutely punctured, very bright metallic green, this 

 colour divided at the middle by a narrow transverse fulvous band 

 which joins the similarly coloured lateral margins ; under side and 

 legs black ; the metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as the 

 follov/ing two joints together ; claw-joint strongly swollen. 



Hah. Pachitea, Peru. 



Larger and more broadly ovate than the other similarly coloured 

 species of the genus ; the antennfe slender and proportionately 

 long ; the thorax strongly toothed ; the metatarsus somewhat 

 intei-mediate between that of OedionycMs and the present genus 

 as a rule, but as long as the following two joints together. 



ASPH^RA VIRIDICOLLIS, Sp, n. 



Black ; thorax bright green, impunctate, the sides gradually 

 flattened ; elytra black or jeneous, deeply foveolate, the lateral 

 and apical margins green. 



Length 7 millim. 



Of medially slightly widened shape ; the head black, impunctate, 

 frontal elevations broad and convex ; clypeus tiiangularly widened, 

 not ridge-shaped ; antennse black, the third and fourth joints 

 ec[ual ; thorax not more than twice as broad as long, rather 

 widened at the sides, the lateral margins feebly rounded, anterior 

 margin concave, its angles moderately produced, not toothed, the 



