Hymetes Lacordaire

(Figs. 1 H; 2 G; 3 G; 4 G; 5 G)

Hymetes Lacordaire, 1848: 861; Type species: Hymetes javana Lacordaire, 1848, by monotypy; Baly, 1865: 61 (description)

Diagnosis. Length 6.34-7.10 mm, width 4.27-4.46 mm. General body shape subquadrate. Antenna serrate beyond 5 th antennomere, 2 nd antennomere globular, 3 rd, 4 th and 5 th antennomere of equal size, subcylindrical, 6 th antennomere very short. Pronotum medially elevated, without pronounced tubercules, but with relatively short, acute ridges. Pronotal base opposite mesoscutellum (posterior pronotal lobe) with acute notch. Prosternal process approximately ½ length of entire prosternum, narrow, slightly broadening posteriorly. Anterior margin of metasternum forming an elongate projection. Mesoscutellum trapezoidal. Metascutellum not exposed. Sutural serra- tion of elytra complete. Elytral tubercules weakly developed. Tibiae slightly curved, flattened dorsally, with sharp edge dorsomedially. Fore- and midtibial apices without spine. Tarsal claw appendiculate.

Distribution. Oriental Region (Monrós 1952).

Remarks. This genus can be separated from all other chlamisine genera by the anteriorly elongate metasternum projection (concave in other chlamisines), by the subcylindrical 3 rd, 4 th and 5 th antennomeres, and by the absence of spines on the fore- and midtibiae.

Three species are known from India and Java (Monrós 1952).

Material examined.

Hymetes javana Lacordaire:

1) a. [Indonesia] Java / b. F. Monrós Collection, 1959. 2) a. [Indonesia] East

Borneo, Batan bessi, M. E. Walsh, 1937/ b. F. Monrós Collection, 1959/ c.

Hymetes javana Lac. F. Monrós det. 1957.

Hymetes indica Chapuis:

1) a. India / b. F. Monrós Collection, 1959/ c. Hymetes indica Chap F. Monrós

det. 1957.