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placed near, but a little behind, the eyes. Antennae about as 

 long as the head and thorax, five-jointed; basal joint short and 

 stout; second not much longer than the first, about half the 

 length of the third; fourth and fifth joints about equal to the 

 third. Rostrum long and slender, reaching the base of the ab- 

 domen ; basal joint shortest, not passing the base of the head ; 

 second longest ; third and fourth about equal. Body short and 

 broad. Thorax with the lateral angles produced into stout, 

 somewhat cylindrical processes, directed forwards and upwards, 

 with the apex emarginate and deflexed. Scutellum reaching 

 beyond the middle of the body ; the apex broad, with a tubercle 

 in its centre. Membrane with irregularly reticulated nervures. 

 Body beneath very convex; abdomen and sternum unarmed; 

 the lateral margins of the former with a small tubercle at the 

 posterior angle of each segment. Legs long, especially the 

 posterior ; tarsi of three joints, with the basal joint as long as 

 the apical. 



1. ^ESCHRUS obscurus, n. s. PI. VIII. fig. 4. 



M. fuscus, obscurus, punctatus; capite nigro, cupreo-tincto ; 

 scutello foveis 2 baseos, tuberculoque apicali nigris ; pedibus 

 nigro-annulatis. $ . 

 Long. lin. 4, lat. hum. 4. 



Head black, tinted with coppery or violet, somewhat shining, 

 thickly punctured, with two short, longitudinal, parallel ridges 

 on the centre of the vertex, and a similar ridge on the central 

 lobe. Eyes black. Thorax pale brown, punctured with black 

 and rugose, with an elevated line down the centre ; the tips of 

 the lateral processes are black. Scutellum of the same colour as 

 the thorax, with a large black pit in each basal angle ; apical 

 tubercle black. Coriaceous portion of the elytra of the same 

 colour and texture ; membrane brownish. Body beneath black, 

 coarsely punctured, rugose, with scattered brown elevations; 

 lateral tubercles of the abdomen brown ; thoracic processes black, 

 tinted with coppery. Legs brown; thighs covered with fine 

 black punctures, with the base, the inside, the apex of the out- 

 side and a ring before the apex, black ; tibiae with the base and 

 a ring about the middle black. Rostrum and antennae brown ; 

 the latter becoming darker towards the apex. 

 a. Java. 



Genus 13. AXIAGASTUS, n. g. 



Head rather longer than broad, rounded at the apex, the cen- 

 tral lobes as long as the lateral, lateral margins considerably in- 

 dented before the eyes. Eyes very prominent, globose ; ocelli 



