ANAXANDEA. 



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Fig. 200. — Anaxandra lavicornis. 



525. Anaxandra Isevicornis, Dall. (Acanthosoma) Lid Hem. i, p. 311 



(1851) ; Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) vi, p. 229 (1900). 



Above pale yellowish-olivaceous ; the central lobe of the head 



slightly passing the lateral 

 ,--'- lobes ; pronotum thickly 

 and rather coarsely punc- 

 tured, lateral angles pro- 

 duced into long impunctate 

 processes, sometimes lute- 

 ous, directed forward, and 

 of the same thickness from 

 base to near the apex, which 

 is acute and slightly re- 

 curved ; scutellum rather 

 strongly but not very thickly 

 punctured ; corium very 

 thickly punctate ; membrane 

 brownish, hyahne : body 

 beneath ochraceous or pale 

 olivaceous ; abdomen impunctate, but very finely wrinkled laterally, 

 apex sometimes bright red ; legs and rostrum testaceous or pale 

 olivaceous ; antennae testaceous, with the third joint black except 

 at base. 



Length 20 millim. 



Hah, North-west Provinces {Home, Brit. Mus.). 



526, Anaxandra cornuta, Dall. (Acantliosoma) Tr. E. S. \, p. 193; 



pi. xix, f. 6 (1849) ; StM, En. Hem. \, p. 114 (1876). 



Olivaceous slightly clovided with luteous, rather thickly and 

 strongly punctured ; pronotum with the lateral angles strongly 

 cornuted, the processes being more darkly coloured than the rest 

 of the surface, the anterior lateral margins greenish beneath ; 

 scutellum acute, slightly sinuated on each side immediately before 

 the apex ; coi'ium thickly and sti^ongly punctured ; membrane 

 brownish at the base, particularly at the internal angles ; antennae 

 concolorous, the apex and sometimes the whole of the joints 

 piceous ; legs pale brownish-ochraceous, with the tibiae and tarsi a 

 little darker ; ventral spine long, reaching anterior coxae. 



Male. The pronotal processes dark olive-green, rounded at the 

 apex, beneath flat, but not grooved ; the membrane pale and 

 semitransparent ; abdomen above red, with broad whitish margins ; 

 body beneath pale ochraceous, with a reddish tinge towards the 

 apex of the abdomen. 



Female. The pronotal processes piceous, very acute, the apices 

 recurved and tipped with bright orange, strongly channelled be- 

 neath ; membrane brownish ; abdomen beneath pitchy brown, 

 darkest at apex, and palest at outer margins and along the median 

 ridge ; ventral spine pale, its apex brown ; sternum brownish, with 

 the ridge semitransparent; head beneath brownish. 



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