384 Mr. C. J. Galian on new Longicorn Coleoptera 



Ilah. South India [Athinson Collectioii). 



Head and prothorax very sparselj punctured, covered with 

 a rather ch)se fulvous pubescence ; their derm, where exposed 

 by the rubbing away of the pubescence, is seen to have a 

 dark brown colour. The elytra are closely punctui-ed, and 

 are clothed with a pale fulvous pubescence. The underside 

 of the body is paler than the upperside, being covered with 

 an ashy fulvous pubescence. The first joint of the antennai 

 is dark brown with a grey pubescence, the third and following 

 joints are testaceous with a pale grey pubescence. 



Two species only have hitherto been placed in the genus 

 Anamera, viz. A. cdhogiittata^ Thorns., and A. concolor^ 

 Lacord. (G(^n. des Coldop. ix. p. 383. 1), in both of which 

 the labrum is arcuately emarginate and the upperside of the 

 thorax and elytra furnished with rather long, erect, black 

 hairs — characters not found in the present species. But when 

 this species is compared in its general structure with A. con- 

 color there seems little reason to doubt that the two are con- 

 generic. The genus Anamera was placed by Lacordaire in 

 the group of the Mesosides ; but why in this group, rather 

 than in the Monohammides, I fail to understand : the cica- 

 trice of the antennal scape is completely margined, the lateral 

 spines of the prothorax are median in position, the interme- 

 diate tibiae grooved, and the claws of the tarsi divaricate. 



Pakagnia, gen. no v. 



Head with the front widening towards the base, with the 

 antennal tubercles prominent, slightly diverging and separated 

 from one another by a rather narrow wedge-shaped interval 

 above. Eyes emarginate, with their lower lobes rather small. 

 Antenna? a little longer than the body ; with the scape 

 thickened, slightly curved, and furnished at the apex with a 

 cicatrice the limiting carina of which is incomplete ; third 

 joint about half as long again as the scape, distinctly thick- 

 ened throughout nearly the whole of its length ; fourth a 

 little shorter than the third, the tilth and following gradually 

 decreasing in length. Prothorax slightly transverse^ some- 

 what narrowed towards the base ; its sides unarmed. Elytra 

 rounded at the apex. Legs subequal to one another in length. 

 Intermediate tibiaj with a distinct oblique groove just below 

 their middle. Claws divaricate. Prosternal process rather 

 feebly arched and narrow between the coxffi, gradually dilated 

 behind up to its posterior border. Mesosternal process nar- 

 rowing posteriorly, bearing a feeble tubercle between the 

 coxa3. 



