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by a more or less distinct sulcus ; scutellum broad, testaceous ; 

 elytra nearly parallel, minutely punctured, testaceous, each elytron 

 with two short black stiipes, one placed on the shoulders, the 

 other near the scutellum, occupying about a fifth of the length of 

 the elytra, near the apex at the sides is another smeJl piceous or 

 black spot which is sometimes obsolete or wanting ; metatarsus 

 of the postei'ior legs rather elongate. 



Ilab. Peru : Prov. Huallaga, Rio Mixiollo (Baer). 



AsPHiERA DivisA, sp. n. (Plate XIY. fig. 9.) 



Fulvous, the antenna?, the breast, and the abdomen black ; head, 

 thorax, and elytra impunctate, the last fulvous, their apical half 

 metallic purplish-violaceous. 



Length 8 millim. 



Head wdth a single deep puncture and a few finer punctures 

 near the ej^es, fulvous ; frontal elevations very broad and wide ; 

 clypeus acutely raised ; labrum black ; elytra long and slender, 

 black, the basal joint fulvous ; thorax narrowed anteriorly, the 

 sides gradually flattened, the anterior angles produced into a short 

 tooth, the disc entirely impunctate, fulvous ; elytra widened 

 towards the middle, with broad reflexed margins, the anterior 

 half fulvous, the other portion metallic violaceous or purplish, the 

 anterior edge of this colour rounded at the sides, also extending to 

 the epipleurje ; breast, abdomen, the anterior and intermediate 

 tibiee and tarsi and the posterior legs black, the femora of the 

 anterior and intermediate legs fulvous ; claw- joint but slightly 

 swollen. 



Hah. Marcapata, Peru. 



The purplish colour of the posterior portion of the elytra some- 

 times extends rather higher upwards than the middle ; I know of 

 no other similarly marked species of Asphcera. 



ASPH^RA FUSCOFASCIATA, Sp. n. 



Head, the antennae, the underside, and legs obscure piceous ; 

 thorax yellowish wdiite, with five obsolete fuscous spots ; elytra im- 

 punctate, pale yellowish, with four transverse fuscous bands, the 

 first divided into two spots. 



Length 8-9 millim. 



Head impunctate, piceous, the clypeus flavous ; antennfe with 

 the lower seven joints piceous or dark fulvous (the others wanting), 

 the thii-d joint slightly shorter than the fourth ; thorax without a 

 distinct flattening of the sides, but with the lateral margins 

 thickened as well as the anterior angles which are produced 

 forward, the surface impunctate, nearly white, the disc with five 

 obsolete, more or less confluent fuscous spots, of wdiich the three 

 at the middle are better defined and placed triangularly ; scutellum 

 fuscous ; elytra entirely impunctate, of yellowish-white ground- 

 colour, with four transverse fuscous bands, one at the base and 

 separated into two spots, the second near the middle, the third 

 below the latter, and the fourth at the apex, all these bands are 



