AXIAGASTUS. 



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tuclinal series of punctures, two marginal and four discal : pro- 



}iotum with t\\'o darkly- en- 

 closed transverse spots on 

 anterior area, lateral angles 

 pale castaueous and acutely 

 produced ; scutellum piceous 

 at base, with a large luteous 

 levigate spot near each basal 

 angle and a similar transverse 

 spot at apex : body beneath 

 and legs ochraceous, punctured 

 with castaueous, a central 

 castaneous spot on apical 

 segment. 



Length 9 ; breadth between 

 prouotal angles 9 millim. 

 Hah. Burma (Atkinson). — Common in the Malay Peninsula, 



and found in many islands of the Malayan Archipelago. 



Fig. 106. 



Paracrifheus trimaculatus. 



Genus AXIAGASTUS. 



Axiagastus, Ball. List Hem. \, p. 221 (18ol) ; 5"^^?/, bfv. Vet.-Ak. 

 Fork. 1867, p. 511. 



Type, A. rosmarus, Dall. 



])istrih%(tion. Oriental and Australasian Regions. 



The principal character relied on by Dallas in the definition of 

 this genus is " anterior angles of the i-ostral canal produced 

 downwards into long tusk-like spines," which is a good and 



A.riarjasfiis rosmnrm^. 



<iufficienfc but somewhat sexual character found in its full develop- 

 ment in the male ; the pronotal angles are rounded, not produced ; 

 scutellum about as long as broad at base and nearly two-thirds 

 the length of abdomen ; meso- and metasterua prominently ridged : 

 abdomen unarmed at base, but with a more or less well-defined 

 ■central furro\^'. 



