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Show 1905.] OF PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 3 9 9 band below the middle, the sutural margin at the same place and the extreme apex likewise black, neither of the black bands extends to the lateral margins ; under side and legs black ; metatarsus elongate, claw-joint scarcely swollen. Hab. Prov. Huallaga, Peru. Of this species I received two specimens from M. Clavareau, of Brussels. In one of them the antennas are shorter and the elytral black band at the base is straigliter than in the other, otherwise there is no difference. The species is closely allied to II. boliviana Kir sell, but in that species the elytral bands are metallic or seneous in colour, they extend always to the lateral margins, and the latter as well as the epipleurae are black, not fulvous, the posterior band also is wider than in the present insect. H omophceta p e r u v ia n a * , sp. ii. (Plate XIY. fig. 2 .) Vertex of the head, antenna?, the breast and legs black ; thorax fulvous, impunctate; elytra metallic blue, impunctate, with a narrow, transverse, flavous band near the apex; abdomen flavous. Length 7 millim. Elongate and parallel, the head with a few punctures near the eyes, the vertex black, the intraocular space, the clypeus, and the labrum fulvous ; antennae very long, extending below the middle of the elytra, black, the lower three joints more or less fulvous below, third and following joints very nearly equal; thorax twice as broad as long, the lateral margins straight at the base, widened towards the apex, the sides strongly thickened and deeply sulcate, the anterior angles greatly produced, the surface impunctate, fulvous ; scutellum black; elytra with a deep depression below the base, impunctate, bright metallic green, with a narrow yellowish-white transverse band near the apex, not quite extending to either margin ; legs black, the base of the femora often flavous ; the breast black; the metatarsus elongate ; claw-joints scarcely thickened. Hab. Pachitea, Peru (Dr. Staudinger). This is a handsome and typical Homophceta, unlike any other species of the genus; the characteristic fulvous spot between the antennae and the shape of the thorax agree entirely with its allies. I have received several specimens from Dr. Staudinger and Herr Bang-Haas. Genus A s p il e r a . Elytra pale coloured. A sp h ^e r a u n ico lo r , sp. n. Subdepressed, testaceous, antennae and legs slightly darker; thorax short, the anterior angles mucronate, anterior margin deeply concave ; elytra minutely and closely punctured. Length 7 millim. Of rather flattened, scarcely posteriorly widened shape; the * For the descriptions of two other new species of Homophceta, inadvertently omitted from this paper, see infra p. 591. |