48 Mr. Charles J. Gahan's Revision of 



18. Astathes terminata. 



Astathes terminata, Pasc, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., (2) iv, 

 p. 109(1857); id. (3) iii, p. 351. 



Head, prothorax, and body underneath, black; elytra for about 

 three-fifths of their length from the base, violaceous, the remaining 

 part reddish- or yellowish-testaceous ; legs fuscous or piceous, with 

 the tarsi and distal portion of the tibiae, testaceous ; antennae 

 yellowish- while, with the first joint brownish-testaceous or piceous, 

 and the last three or four infuscate. Head thickly punctured in 

 front, sparsely on the vertex. Central tubercle of pronotum not 

 strongly raised, slightly convex above with a more abrupt conical 

 point in the middle, rather thickly punctured. 



Hob. Malacca. Type (?) in Brit. Mus. 



The type of this species is relatively somewhat narrower 

 and more elongate than the other species of this section ; 

 but in some of the following forms (which I provisionally 

 treat as varieties), the shape is more in accordance with 

 that characteristic of the section. 



Var. 1. sumptuosa (Dup. MS.). 



= Tetraophthalmus daldorjii, Thorns, (nee Illig. nee Fab.), Archiv. 

 Ent., i, p. 52. 



Elytra violaceous from the base to the middle only, or to a little 

 beyond it ; body underneath black as in the type of terminata. 



Eab. Java and Malacca. 



Var. 2. Elytra coloured as in the type ; abdomen and the greater 

 part of the metasternum testaceous. 



Hal. Java. 



Var. 3. westermanni (Mannerh. MS.). 



Elytra violaceous from the base to the middle only, or to a little 

 beyond it ; abdomen wholly, and the metasternum to a greater or 

 less extent, testaceous. 



Hah. Penang, Ding Ding Islands, Perak, and 

 Borneo. 



SECTION IV. 



Centro-dorsal tubercle of prothorax less strongly raised, especially 

 in front, where it is scarcely above the level of the transverse groove, 

 and not impressed on each side with a horizontal pit. Elytra each 

 with two distinctly raised, acute costae in addition to one alongside 

 the suture. The fossa in front of the apex of the last ventral segment 



