AMIMES. 99 



B. Front coxae distinctly separated by pro- 

 sternal process. 



a. Prothorax unarmed at sides ; mesono- 



tum with undivided atridulatory area. 



a. First antennal joint rounded off at 



apex ; basal margin of prothorax 



nearly straight CEsiospiLA, p. 104. 



b. First antennal joint sharply angulate 



or spined at apex, basal margin of 



prothorax rounded in middle .... XYSTKOCERA, p. 105. 



b. Prothorax with a tubercle, sometimes 



very small, on each side ; stridulatory 

 area of uiesonotum divided by a median 

 line OPLATOCERA, p. 107. 



Genus AMIMES. 



Aminies, Pascoe, Journ. Ent. i, p. 368 (1862) ; Lacord. Gen. CoUopt. 

 viii, p. 377 (1869;. 



Type, A. macilentus, Pascoe. 



Range. Ceylon. 



Head narrowed gradually behind the eyes, broader in front 

 than the prothorax ; eyes large, coarsely facetted, rather deeply 

 emarginate ; front short, impressed with a median line, separated 

 from the clypeus by a nearly transverse impression ; antennal 

 supports raised and directed obliquely outwards. Antenna? very 

 long in the tf, filiform, with the joints from the third gradually 

 increasing in length. Prothorax narrow, scarcely longer than 

 broad, a little constricted near the base and apex, feebly 

 tuberculate on the disc. Elytra united about twice as broad 

 as the prothorax and three times as long as they are broad ; 

 rounded at the apex. Front and middle coxae strongly exserted 

 and prominent ; the front coxae contiguous, the intercoxal process 

 very narrow and extended only halfway between them, their 

 acetabula slightly augulate outwards and open posteriorly; the 

 mesosternum also narrow between the coxae. Legs rather long ; the 

 femora narrow at the base, thickened and subfusiform, especially 

 in the c? ? towards the apex, the hind pair scarcely reach past the 

 third abdominal segment ; tarsi narrow, the first joint elongate, 

 as long in the hind tarsus as the remaining joints united. 



91. Amimes macilentus, Pascoe (Psilomerus ?), Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) 

 iv, p. 238 (1858) ; id. (Amimes) Journ. Ent. i, p. 368, pi. 17, f. 6 

 (1862). 



3 . Of a livid brown colour above ; with the outer borders of 

 the elytra and a broad, but short, sutural band, that begins a little 

 behind the base and narrows posteriorly, pale yellow. Head partly 

 brown and partly testaceous in front, impressed with a median line 

 that extends from the clypeal suture to the occiput. Antennae 

 nearly three times the length of the body ; yellowish testaceous, 



