368 Mr. F. P. Pascoe 07i some new or Vittle-hnown 



Amimes [Cerambycidae]. 



Head very sliort and rounded in front, nan-owed behind tbe eyes. An- 

 tennae eleA'en-jointed, arising between the eyes from short divaricate 

 tnbercles, two or three times as long as the body, setaceous, the basal 

 joint short, narrowly subpyrifonn, the third twice its length, the re- 

 mainder gradually longer. Eyes large, prominent, reniform. Palpi 

 slender, pointed. Lip and epistome very short and transverse. Man- 

 dibles entire at the apex. Prothorax elongate, iiTegularl}^ subcylindrical, 

 narrower than the head and elytra, unanned. Elytra subparallel. Legs 

 slender, basal joint of the tarsi elongate. Anterior cotyloid cavity 

 widely angulated externally, open behind ; its coxai conical, approxi- 

 mate. Pro- and mesosterna simple. 



The specimen from which the above generic details have been 

 dra^A^l up was originally described by me in the ' Trans. Ent. So- 

 ciety,' 2nd scr. iv. p. 238, as PsiJomerus ? macilentus. The generic 

 name was a MS. one used for a congener at the British Museum, 

 but, as I afterwards found from an inspection of the true Psilomerus 

 at Paris (Jardin des Plantes), had nothing whatever to do with my 

 species. As I cannot refer it to any published genus, a new name 

 has therefore become necessary. With regard to its affinities, I have 

 with some hesitation placed it ne&x Methia, Newm., hitherto forming 

 with Dysplmga, Hald., a small group, originally proposed by Leconte, 

 and principallj^ characterized by its anterior cotyloid cavities open 

 behind. M. James Thomson in his ' Essai,' p. 128, combines Dectes, 

 Leconte, with them ; but this and Dysplmga I have not seen. 



Amimes maciUntus. (PI. XVII. fig. 6.) 



Maceones [Cerambycidae]. 

 Newman, The Entomologist, p. 33. 



Macrones acicularis. 



31. angustissimus, ferrugineus ; elytris rufo-testaceis, unicostatis ; tarsis 

 posticis albis. 



Hab. Australia (Adelaide). 



Very nan-ow and elongate, ferruginous ; head punctm-ed in front, 

 deeply impressed between the antennpe, the vertex dark brown ; pro- 

 thorax pimctato-granulate, veiy u-regular, with a protuberance at the 

 side near the base, and another on the disk above it ; scutellum small, 

 bluish-black ; elytra terminating at tlie end of the third abdominal 

 segment, reddish testaceous, with a strongly raised longitudinal line 

 on each ; abdomen above dark brown ; legs slender, posterior tarsi 

 yellowish white ; body beneath brown, abdomen at the base ferruginous ; 

 antennse not reaching to the end of the elytra, dull brown, the basal 

 joint ferruginous, the three apical yellowish white. Length 8^ lines. 



