Genus Anubis Thomson

Anubis Thomson, 1864, Syst. Ceramb., 177 (type-species : Saperda clavicornis Fabricius) loc. cit.. - Gahan, 1906b, Fauna British India, Col. 1 : 220. - Aurivillius, 1912, Coleopt. Cat., 39 : 317. - Gressitt & Rondon, 1970, Pac, Ins. Monogr, 24: 164.

Diagnostic characters : head hardly raised between antennal insertion except base of anternnal support; head more or less elongated below eye; sulcus between frons and clypeus distinctive; antennae shorter than body in both sexes; antennal segment gradually thicken towards apex from about middle; prothorax oblong cylindrical, constricted at abse, as wide as elytra, side unarmed; elytra parallel-sided, apex rounded; hind femora not extended beyond elytral apex.

Anubis cyaneus PICARD

Body mostly metallic green; maxillary and labial palpi testaceous; entire head including labrum and clypeus metallic green; antennal black, densely clothed with very minute fuscous pubescence giving the apical segments a brownish tinge; prothorax, scutellum andelytra metallic green; the latter with a faint subsutural purplish stripe, not reaching apex; outer margin with a purplish-black marginal strip that meet each other at apex, cutting the metallic greenish stripe; undersurfaces bright metallic green with thin whitish pubescence; legs chalybeate.

Head subvertical; gena prolonged, as long as mandible; clypeus squarish, sulcus with gena obscure, both coarsely punctate; sulcus between clypeus and frons transverse, in middle of frontal ocular; median groove between antennal support obscure; inner margin of the latter feebly raised; vertex and neck reticulo-punctate. Antenna shorter than body, extended to 3/4 of elytra in ; gradually thicken towards apex, beginning from segment 6; scape cylindrical, closely punctate, not tuberculate ectoapically; 3 longest, 2 X as long as scape; 5 little longer than 4; 4 & 6 subequal, remaining segments successively shorten. Prothorax distinctively longer than broad; as wide as elytra; base constricted; widest at 1/4 from base, gradually narrow to apex; side rounded, unarmed; pronotum planate; disc intricate, striate-carinulate, carinae irregular and usually interrupted; median of disc with an oval tomentose patch, interrupted in anterior by a to 4 crescentric striation leaving an elliptical patch at apical colar; prosternum intricately striate; fore intercoxal process horizontal, constricted between coxae and extremely dilated posteriorly, triangular. Elytron elongated, 6.5 X as long as broad; sides parallel; gradually rounded and dehiscent at 1/6 of apex; disc hatched with short parallel transverse sulci along suture; granulo-punctate, coarser near base and greenish portion. Legs : fore and mid femora coarsely punctate; ventral margin of mid femora sinuate; hind femora disproportionally lengthened, densely punctulate, slender with slight thickening at apex, not extended beyond elytral apex.

Measurement : Length 18.0 - 19.0 mm (); breadth 3.0 - 3.5 mm ()

Distribution : Sarawak; Vietnam.

Material examined : 2 Matang Road, Kuching Div., 8.VII.1914 (SM Coll.); Kuching, Kuching Div., 22.V.1902 (SM Coll.).