118 MARTIN JACOBY 
two preceding together; thorax transverse, the surface biim- 
pressed; scutellum triangular; elytra irregularly punctured , 
subcostate, their epipleurae continued to the apices; all the 
tibiae mucronate, the first joint of the tarsi elongate, that of 
the posterior ones, as long as half the tibiae; claws appendi- 
culate ; prosternum invisible; anterior coxal cavities closed. 
_ A. The first tarsal joint of the four anterior legs strongly 
dilated. 
The long first tarsal joints, the filiform antennae, the closed 
coxal cavities and mucronate tibiae will place the present genus 
in the 22." group of Chapuis’ arrangement; from any of the 
genera included in that group as well as from those allied to 
them and described since (Candezea, Sermyloides) Amandus 
differs in the biimpressed thorax and in the elongate first tarsal 
joint of al/ the tibiae which in the male insect assume a flat- 
tened and dilated shape not met with amongst the other nume- 
rous tribes of the Galerucinae as far as known. 
108. Amandus subcostatus, n. sp. 
Breast and abdomen black; head, thorax and legs pale ful- 
vous, the former impunctate; elytra testaceous, longitudinally 
costate, the interstices closely punctured. 
7. The vertex of the head deeply excavated at each side, 
the centre raised in shape of a narrow ridge; the first joints 
of the four anterior tarsi, flattened and dilated. 
©. All the tarsi elongate and slender at the first joints, the 
head simple. | 
Length 3-4 lines. 
7. Head longer than broad, the vertex deeply concave, the 
centre divided by a longitudinal ridge broadest at the base; 
anterior margin of the clypeus straight; the terminal joint of 
the palpi piceous; antennae more than half the length of the 
body, the four or five lower joints fulvous, the rest piceous; 
thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides slightly 
rounded, the anterior and posterior margin straight, the anterior 
