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Show 1894.] COLEOPTERA OF THE GENUS ASPHCERA. 629 finely and remotely punctured, the sides broadly flattened; scutellum broader than long, black; elytra rather strongly and closely punctured 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 antennae, 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. EPIONYCHIS SIAMENSIS, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 11.) Black, thorax nearly impunctate, 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 3f lines. Head with a few punctures near the eyes, black, shining, the frontal tubercles transverse, strongly raised; antenna? 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. ASPH,ERA HAROLPI, n. sp. Flavous, the vertex of the head, the antennae, 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 |