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Show 1880.] MR. M. JACOBY ON PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 601 flavous, shining, a spot at each side at the base and another between the eyes black. Antennse robust, reaching to a short distance below the base of the elytra; the third joint the longest, black; the two terminal joints fulvous. Thorax nearly square-shaped, slightly broader than long, the sides distinctly angulate before the middle, the anterior angles broadly produced ; surface impunctate, flavous, shining, with five round black spots, of which three are placed transversely near the anterior, the other two near the posterior margin. Scutellum triangular, black, pubescent. Elytra much wider at the base than the thorax, subdepressed ; extremely finely granulate and punctate-striate, subopaque, testaceous, each elytron with a round spot at the base, another transverse-shaped one at the middle, and a third, of the same shape but much narrower, near the apex, black ; tbe sutural and lateral margins are of the same colour ; some remotely placed black hairs are visible near the apex of the elytra. Underside and legs (with the exception of the tibiae and tarsi, which are black) flavous, shining. This handsome species bears some superficial resemblance to B. trifasciatus, Jacoby (Cistula Entomologica, 1879, vol. ii. p. 520), but is at once distinguished by the spots of the head and thorax, and the black tibiae and tarsi, as well as the antennse. Mus. Jacoby. Genus ASPH^ERA, Chevrol. 69. ASPH.ERA T O M E N T O S A , sp. nov. Oblong-ovate, convex. Black, margin of the thorax rufous ; elytra finely granulate and punctate, opaque, sparingly pubescent, obscure rufous variegated with black. Length 4| lines. Head deeply transversely grooved between the eyes, the base finely granulate, and rather deeply punctate at each side. Antennse nearly as long as half the body, black, pubescent; the last four joints closely covered with whitish hairs. Thorax with its sides straight and narrowed from base to apex, all the angles acute but not produced ; surface finely granulate, covered here and there with yellow hairs, black, opaque, margined with rufous. Elytra convex, slightly widened behind; surface very finely granulate and punctured, covered (especially near the apex) sparingly with golden-yellow hairs; obscure rufous mixed with black, the former colour prevailing near the apex. Underside and legs black, covered sparingly with yellow pubescence; first tarsal joint as long as the two following united, posterior claw moderately swollen. This interesting species is, as far as I know, the only one belonging to the genus Aspheera in which the upper parts are pubescent as well as the underside. Mus. Jacoby. 70. ASPH^ERA BASALIS, Sp. nOV. Oblong. Black, abdomen fulvous ; thorax and elytra testaceous, the latter with a subrotundate large basal black patch. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1880, No. XL. 40 |