58 Mr. Charles J. Gaban's Revision of 



Hob. Malacca, Tringano, Patani, Singapore, and 

 Sumatka. Type of hvpartita in coll. Oberthtir ; type of 

 pulchella in Brit. Mus. 



In size, form and structure tbis species agrees pretty 

 closely with A. straminea, Pasc, but has an entirely 

 different coloration. 



34. Astathes cincta, sp. n. (PI. IV, fig. 6.) 



Yellowish-testaceous ; with a broad steel-blue band crossing the 

 whole width of the elytra between the base and the middle, the 

 anterior border of the band being at a short distance behind the base, 

 and the posterior, a little in front of the middle of the elytra ; apex 

 of antennae slightly infuscate. Head thickly punctured in front and 

 furnished with a feeble median carina near the base ; less closely 

 punctured above and impressed with a median line. Prothorax 

 slightly protuberant at the middle of each side : closely and strongly 

 punctured above except along the central tubercle, the latter in the 

 form of a slightly raised obtuse ridge extending from the posterior 

 to the anterior transverse groove. Elytra rather sparsely punctured ; 

 each with two distinct dorsal costae in addition to the sutural costa. 

 Antennae of the male a little longer than the body; those of the 

 female a little shorter than the body. 



Long. 9-10 mm. 



Hob. Java, Gounod Gedeh (Ledru). Type in coll. 

 Oberthtir. 



This species, though closely resembling A. fasciata in 

 coloration and in the relative position of the elytral band, 

 is much smaller in size and differs further in having the 

 centro-dorsal tubercle of the prothorax obtuse instead of 

 strongly acute. 



35. Astathes fasciata, sp. n. 

 Astathes levis, var. (3. Newman, The Entomologist, i, p. 299. 



Head, prothorax, and first three joints of the antennae testaceous ; 

 intermediate joints of the antennas pale yellow, last five or six 

 infuscate ; elytra yellowish- or reddish-testaceous, with a broad blue 

 band crossing them transversely just before the middle ; body under- 

 neath, and legs testaceous, with the tarsi and the discal half of the 

 tibiae infuscate. Head densely and somewhat rugosely punctured in 

 front, sparsely and feebly above ; the front with a prominent median 

 carina in its lower half. Antennae reaching to the apex of the elytra 

 in the male. Prothorax feebly tuberculate at the sides ; its centro- 

 dorsal tubercle taking the form of a sharp riclge extending from the 



