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of the female larger and deeper than in the species of the other 

 sections. 



19. Astathes levis. 



Astathes levis, Newm., The Entomologist, i, p. 290 



(1842). 

 Astathes divisa, Pasc., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., (2) v, p. 47 



(1859). 

 Var. l. = A. gallemcoides, Thorns., Syst. Ceramb., p. 557 



(1865). 

 Var. 2. = A. basalis, Thorns., 1. c, p. 557. 

 A. casta, Thorns., 1. c, p. 538. 



Reddish-testaceous ; elytra from the base to the middle or to a 

 little beyond it, violaceous-blue, the hinder part of this blue area with 

 a patch of closely aggregated black seta? ; the antennas infuscate at 

 the apex, the tarsi, and the apices of the tibiae, brownish-black. 

 Head and prothorax distinctly but rather sparsely punctured ; central 

 tubercle of pronotum sub-pyramidal in form, and more strongly- 

 raised than in the majority of the species belonging to this section. 

 Elytra sparsely punctured. 



Sab. Philippine Islands (Cuming). Type (?) of levis, 

 Newm., and type ( $ ) of divisa, Pasc., in Brit. Mus. 



Pascoe gave India as the locality of divisa and his type 

 specimen is so labelled ; but this specimen agrees so well 

 in every respect (save the sexual differences) with New- 

 man's type, that I feel almost certain the locality India is 

 wrong, and that the specimen really came from the 

 Philippines. 



Var. 1. gallerucoides, Thorns. Differs from the type of levis, 

 Newm., in having a narrow testaceous border at the base of each 

 elytron from the suture to the humeral depression. Type ( $ ) in 

 coll. Oberthur. 



Var. 2. basalis, Thorns, — casta, Thorns. In this variety the blue 

 area of the elytra does not extend as far as to the middle, and the 

 sutural margins the whole way up to, and alongside of, the scutellum 

 are testaceous. Type (?) in coll. Oberthur. 



I could find no difference between the type of basalis and 

 that of casta, except a slight difference in tint, the reddish- 

 testaceous colour of the former being replaced by yellowish- 

 white in the latter. 



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