354" Longicornia Maluyana. 



Aslathes purpurea. 

 Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, iv. 108. 



A. capite protlioraceque nigris ; elytris totis purpureis ; anten- 

 nis tarsisque testaceis. 



Hab. — Singapore. 



Head and prothorax black, tlie rest of the insect dark purple, 

 except the antennae, metasternum and tarsi, which are testaceous, 

 the former slightly pitchy at the base ; prothorax with the point 

 of its gibbosity in the middle, a large fovea in front nearly inter- 

 mediate between the point and anterior border ; elytra with two 

 well marked ridges, the third close to the suture, and almost con- 

 founded with it. 



Length 5 lines. 



Another species allied to this, but not in the present collection, 

 has been described by me under the naine o? A.caloptera (Journ. 

 of Entom. i. QS'). It is from Labuan, and has the elytra of the 

 richest imaginable blue, with violet reflexions in certain lights. 



j^stnlhes pulcliella. 



A. angustior, flavo-ferruginea ; elytris dimidio basali laete vio- 

 laceis, postice flavis ; medipectore fusco. 



Sab. — Sumatra, Malacca. 



Narrower than any of the preceding, reddish-fulvous, the basal 

 half of the elytra violet or blue, apical half gamboge-yellow ; 

 head and prothorax covered with very distinct, somewhat scat- 

 tered punctures, the latter with the central callus raised at the 

 base only ; scutellum transverse ; elytra finely punctured ; body 

 beneath yellowish, the medipectus dark brown ; antennae with the 

 two or three terminal joints blackish ; legs entirely yellowish. 



Length 4 — 6 lines. 



EuSTATHES. 



Eustathes, Newman, Entom. i. 300. 

 Characteres ut in Astathe, sed antennce sub-lineares, prothorax 

 bicarinato-callosus, metasternum apice in sinu mesosterni re- 

 ceptum, corpus minus amplum, elongatum. 

 The real difference between this genus and the preceding ap- 

 pears to me to reside in the modification of the mesosternum, 

 wliich here rises to the level of the metasternum, and forms a kind 

 of small sinus or indentation which receives the apex of the latter. 

 Besides this character, the gibbosity on the disk of the prothorax 



