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Show 442 MR. M JACOBY ON NEW COLEOPTERA. [MaV 2U' ginate, impunctate, black or violaceous blue ; a transverse band the margin to the suture, situated at the middle, slightly convex anteriorly, and narrowed towards the suture, and a transverse subquadrate patch, widened towards the suture, white. Underside black, abdomen flavous; claws scarcely thickened. Hab. Cache, Costa Rica. Collected by Mr. Rogers. Genus ASPH^ERA, Chev. 7. AsPH^ERA APICALIS, Sp. nOV. Ovate, convex, black; clypeus and sides of thorax testaceous. Elytra purplish, the extreme lateral margins and the apex more or less flavous testaceous. Length 3-4 lines. Head with a few rather deep punctures, deeply transversely depressed, with a short longitudinal groove between the eyes, the space in front of the latter rather swollen. Clypeus light testaceous. Antennae rather long, the fourth and fifth joints the longest, of equal length, the basal three joints piceous, the rest black. Thorax narrowed from base to apex, its sides broadly margined, anterior angles acute, but not produced; surface impunctate, black, the sides light testaceous ; scutellum black, broadly triangular. Elytra closely and irregularly punctured, the interstices transversely and longitudinally wrinkled, to a less extent towards the apex, of a purplish colour ; the apex with a triangular space extending to a greater or smaller degree upwards, as well as the extreme lateral margins, flavous testaceous. Underside and legs black. Metatarsus as long as the two following joints, claw-joint moderately swollen. Hab. Brazil. 8. ASPH^ERA BALYI, Sp. nOV. Light fulvous below ; head and elytra dark metallic green, shining; thorax and two spots on each elytron testaceous. Length 3| lines. Head with a deep transverse depression, impunctate, lower face testaceous ; antennae piceous, basal three joints testaceous. Thorax with the anterior angles not mucronate, but obtusely rounded, sides regularly rounded and broadly flattened, base with an obsoletely depressed transverse narrow groove, posterior margin sinuate at each side, surface very minutely punctured ; elytra narrowly margined, throughout finely punctured, very shining dark metallic green, the extreme lateral margin, a transversely placed oval-shaped spot in the middle, and a smaller one of the same shape near the apex light testaceous. Underside fuscous or ferruginous ; knees and the tibiae piceous. Metatarsus as long as the two following joints united, claw-joint moderately swollen. Hab. Peru. 9. ASPH^ERA AMAZONICA, Sp. 110V. Elongate, subparallel, light flavous ; antenna? and legs fulvous : |