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disc impunctate, gradually flattened at the sides, bright green, 

 shining; scntelluni black, trigonate ; elytra broadly margined, 

 with elongate deep fovese, placed in about six longitudinal rows, 

 the interstices strongly reticulate and confluent, the lateral 

 margins rather broadly green, furnished with single hairs near 

 the a,pex, rest of the surface shining black or bronze ; under side 

 and legs black ; metatarsus elongate ; claw-joint but slightly 

 swollen. 



Hah. Ecuador. 



At once distinguished from A. incequcdis Erichs. by the green 

 thorax and sides of the elytra and by the entirely black breast and 

 abdomen. I know of no similarly coloured species. 



ASPH.ERA TESSELLATA, sp. n. (Plate XIY. fig. 8.) 



Black, head spotted with flavous ; thorax impunctate, flavous, 

 with a transverse black band ; elytra extremely minutely punc- 

 tured, flavous, two elongate spots at the base, a narrow transverse 

 band below the middle, and a sj)ot near the apex black. 



Length 8 millim. 



Head impunctate, black, the eyes surrounded by a flavous 

 band, frontal elevations narrow, strongly raised, lower portion of 

 face pale fulvous, labrum piceous ; antenna? black, rather short, 

 the basal joint fulvous below, third and fourth joints equal ; 

 thorax twice as broad as long, slightly arched, the sides flattened, 

 with a narrow thickened margin which gradually widens an- 

 teriorlj^, the angles strongly thickened and produced, the disc 

 impunctate, flavous, with a transverse black band, the anterior 

 edge of which is concave and iri-egular in outline ; scutellum 

 black ; elytra extremely minutely and closely punctured, flavous, 

 the base with two elongate black spots, a short transvei'se black 

 band placed much below the middle and another triangular spot 

 near the apex complete the design of each elytron ; under side 

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

 following two joints together, claw-joint strongly swollen. 



Hah. Brazil. 



I know only a single specimen of this well-marked and distinct 

 species, without precise locality. 



ASPH^RA VARIEGATA, Sp. n. 



Black ; the clypeus, thorax, and abdomen flavous ; elytra 

 metallic green or obscure purplish, imjDunctate ; a round spot 

 near the scutellum, a transverse band near the apex, and the 

 lateral margins flavous. 



Var. a. Elytra with a narrow transverse band at the middle 

 and another one near the apex, as well as the lateral margins, 

 flavous, the basal spot absent. 



Yar. h. Elytra with a single band near the apex and the 

 margins flavous. 



Length 7-7| millim. 



Head impunctate, the vertex black, the clypeus flavous, frontal 



