Lonyicornia Malay una. 353 



Astalhes fulgida. 

 1 Cerambyxfulgidus, Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth. ii. 280. 



A. capite prothoraceque pallide flavis ; elytris totis laete vio- 

 laceis. 



Sab. — Sumatra. 



Entirely pale yellow, except the elytra, which are of a very 

 rich dark violet ; head flattened between the tubers, projecting 

 in front between the eyes ; prothorax with an oblong gib- 

 bosity well limited at the sides and posteriorly by a broad but 

 somewhat shallow groove, the apex nearly in the centre, punc- 

 tures kw and confined to the gibbosity ; scutellum very trans- 

 verse ; elytra with fine well-marked ridges, the outermost form- 

 ing an angle with the nearly vertical sides. 



Length 6 lines. 



1 have only a single specimen, with which the description of 

 Fabricius agrees so far as it goes, except that the pale yellow 

 becomes ferruginous. M. J. Thomson's A. cyanipennts *' paulo 

 revocat A. fulgidam" but the ferruginous is replaced by black. It 

 is from the Celebes (Syst. p. 557). 



Astalhes velata. 

 J. Thomson, Systema Ceramb. p. 557. 

 A. capite, prothorace, elytrisque fulvis, his ad humeros laete 



violaceis ; corpore infra pedibusque fulvis. 

 Hub. — Java. 



Almost entirely bright fulvous or rather croceous, the eyes and 

 apices of the antennae black, the violet at the base of the elytra 

 interrupted at the suture. 

 Length Sg lines. 



Astalhes splendida. 

 Cerambyx splendidus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. i. pt. 2, p. 263. 

 A. capite prothoraceque fulvis ; elytris dimidio basali violaceis ; 



corpore infra pedibusque fulvescentibus. 

 Hab. — Sarawak. 



Differs from A. velata in not having the violet interrupted at 

 the suture. Astalhes decipiens, Pasc. (Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, v. 

 46), not in Mr. Wallace's collection, differs, inter alia, in the 

 nearly obsolete punctuation on the apical portion of the elytra. 



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