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Show 630 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON NEW [Nov. 6, anterior angles produced and thickened but not toothed, the surface rather convex, impunctate, flavous, posterior margin slightly sinuate at the sides; scutellum black; elytra with a depression below the base, very bright metallic green, impunctate; underside and femora flavous, the tibia? and tarsi black. Hab. Amazons, also Bolivia. Allied to A. xanthocephala, Har., but the clypeus and the entire underside flavous, the elytra more brilliant metallic. ASPHCERA MELANOCEPHALA, n. sp. Flavous, the head, antennae, and tibia? and tarsi black ; thorax impunctate; elytra bluish black, impunctate. Length 2^ lines. Head black, with a single puncture near the eyes, frontal tubercles transverse, rather feebly raised ; clypeus strongly developed, black, the sides flavous; palpi strongly thickened; antenna? rather long, black, all the joints, the second one excepted, of nearly equal length; thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, narrowly margined, the anterior angles thickened but not toothed, the surface impunctate, pale flavous; scutellum black; elytra with a small depression below the base, bluish black, impunctate; underside and femora flavous, tibiae and tarsi black, the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following two joints together. Hab. Amazons. Principally distinguished by the colour of the head and that of the clypeus. ASPHJERA CLARK:I, n. sp. Flavous, thorax rather narrow, scarcely margined, nearly impunctate, scutellum piceous; elytra impunctate, a transverse band at the base and another below the middle violaceous blue. Length 2\ lines. Head pale fulvous, with a few punctures near the eyes, the latter large, the dividing space scarcely broader than their diameter, frontal tubercles trigonate; antennae fulvous, extending to the middle of the elytra, the basal two joints shining, the others pubescent, third and following joints equal, elongate; thorax scarcely more than twice as broad as long, the sides but slightly rounded, narrowly flattened, anterior angles produced into a small tooth, the surface with some very minute punctures when seen under a very strong lens ; scutellum piceous ; elytra with a broadly flattened margin, sculptured like the thorax, flavous, with a transverse band slightly widened at the suture and not extending to the sides, and a similar band below the middle, violaceous blue; underside and legs flavous, the apex of the femora generally darker or stained with piceous, the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following joints together, claw-joint moderately swollen. Hab. Amazons, |