46 Mr. Charles J. Gahan's Revision of 



Astathes decipiens, Pasc, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., (2) v, 



p. 46 (1859). 

 Var. Astathes splendida, Pasc, op. cit., (3) iii, p. 353 

 (1867). 



Reddish- or yellowish-testaceous ; elytra violaceous from the base 

 up to, or a little beyond, the middle ; antennae infuscate towards the 

 apex ; metasternum with a larger or smaller black patch on each 

 side ; the hind legs, and sometimes also the middle legs, more or less 

 infuscate. Head strongly and rather closely punctured in front, 

 sparsely punctured above. Prothorax thickly punctured on the 

 central tubercle, more sparsely elsewhere. Elytra rather sparsely 

 punctate and setose, the setae on the anterior violaceous half being 

 black, on the posterior half, tawny. Antennae of the male reaching 

 to the apex of the elytra. 



Var. The violaceous area of the elytra extending a little farther 

 back than in the type. Body underneath and legs entirely testaceous. 



Hal). Sumatra, Java, and (of the var.) Borneo. 

 Types in Copenhagen Museum. Type of decipiens, Pasc, 

 in Brit. Mus. 



Fabricius, in his description, gave Tranquebar as the 

 locality of this species, but must have done so in error. 

 Dr. Meinerfc has very kindly sent me for examination one 

 of the original types of Fabricius, and this type specimen 

 undoubtedly belongs to the form occurring in Sumatra, 

 and described by Pascoe as A. decipiens. All the examples 

 from Borneo which I have seen belong to the variety, 

 which Pascoe erroneously regarded as the true splendida 

 of Fab. 



15. Astathes lemoides. 



Astathes lemoides, Thorns., Syst. Ceramb., p. 558 (1865). 



Head, prothorax, and apical half of elytra rufo-testaceous ; basal 

 half of elytra violaceous, the hind border of this violaceous area 

 being rather strongly arcuate ; body underneath black, but with the 

 prothorax and mesosternum testaceous ; legs black, with the tarsi 

 testaceous ; antennae testaceous, with the last five or six joints infus- 

 cate, and the first two sometimes fuscous on the dorsal face. 



Hah. Sumatra. Type (?) in coll. Oberthur. 



This species agrees closely in structure and puncturation 

 with A. splendida, Fab., but is easily to be distinguished 

 from it by the stronger and more regular arcuate emar- 

 gination of the basal violaceous area of the elytra, as well 

 as by the black colour of the underside. 



