1894.] COLEOPTERA OF THE GENUS ASPH.ERA. 629 



finely and remotely punctured, the sides broadly flattened ; scutellum 

 broader than long, black ; elytra rather strongly and closely punc- 

 tured anteriorly, the punctures nearly absent below the middle, 

 testaceous, a rounded spot at the base, a more elongate mark 

 pointed posteriorly, placed at the middle of the disc and the suture, 

 connected with a round spot at the apex, black ; abdomen and legs 

 flavous, the knees, base of the tibiae, and the apex of the posterior 

 femora black, breast black, posterior femora fulvous, posterior 

 tibia? emarginate at the apex, the posterior claw-joint strongly 

 subglobular. 



Hab. Africa, Sierra Leone. 



This small species differs in many respects from its South- 

 American congeners : the short antenna?, their incrassate terminal 

 joints and the broad space dividing them, the thoracic sulcus, and 

 the general shape of the thorax are not generally found in this 

 genus : these differences are, however, more those of degree, and 

 the species may well be included in (Edionychis, which contains 

 already several other African forms. 



(Edionychis siamensis, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 11.) 



Black, thorax nearly impuuctate, the sides flavous ; elytra finely 

 punctured and slightly rugose anteriorly, flavous, a spot on the 

 shoulder and a transverse band below the middle black. 



Length 3| lines. 



Head with a few punctures near the eyes, black, shining, the 

 frontal tubercles transverse, strongly raised ; antennae slender, not 

 extending to the middle of the elytra, black, third and fourth joints 

 equal ; thorax three times broader than long, the sides strongly 

 rounded and flattened, the surface with a few fine punctures and 

 a transverse depression near the base at each side, shining, black, 

 the flattened sides flavous ; scutellum black ; elytra very finely and 

 closely punctured, the punctures nearly obsolete near the apex, 

 flavous, the suture, immediately below the scutellum, a spot on the 

 shoulders, and a broad, strongly curved, transverse band below the 

 middle black ; underside and legs black. 



Hab. Siam. 



AsPHiERA HAROLDI, n. Sp. 



Flavous, the vertex of the head, the antenna?, and the tibia? and 

 tarsi black ; thorax impunctate ; elytra metallic green or blue, 

 impunctate. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head flavous, the vertex and the labrum black, the space 

 between the eyes with a deep sinuate, strongly punctured groove, 

 the frontal tubercles broad, moderately strongly raised; palpi 

 flavous, the last joint piceous ; antenna? extending slightly beyond 

 the middle of the elytra, black, the basal joint flavous below, third 

 joint as long as the fourth ; thorax about twice as broad as long, 

 the sides rounded at the middle, with a very narrow margin, the 



