HYPEKAXIS. 417 



Thorax rather broader than long, sides nearly straight, surface not 



Fig. 147. Nephrella clongata. 



very deeply punctured. Elytra finely punctured, surface indis- 

 tinctly wrinkled, pubescent like the head and thorax. Abdomen 

 more sparingly pubescent. 



Length 5| mm. 



Hob. Ceylon. 



Genus HYPERAXIS. 



Hyperaxis, Lefcv. Cat. Eumolp. 1885, p. 79. 



Metaxis, Baly (nee de Chaudoir], Journ. Ent. ii, 1863, p. 157. 



Type, H. sellala, Baly, from Borneo. 



Range. India; Burma; Andamans ; China; Borneo. 



Oblong, subcylindrical, clothed with scales above, intermixed 

 with short, rigid, erect hairs. Head moderately exserted, 

 perpendicular; antennae slender, filiform, nearly equal to the body 

 in length, first joint incrassate, second very short, moderately 

 thickened, third slender, equal in length to the preceding two 

 united, the rest each nearly as long as the third, terminal joints 

 slightly shorter and thicker; eyes entire; terminal joint of 

 maxillary palpi narrow, ovate. Thorax subcylindrical, lateral 

 border obsolete (in some species with finely serrate margins). 

 Elytra much broader than the thorax, deeply punctate-striate. 

 Legs moderate ; femora toothed beneath, anterior and posterior 

 femora strongly incrassate, intermediate femora more slender, the 

 latter emarginate or notched at apex ; claws bifid. Prosternum 

 elongate, broad, somewhat wedge-shaped ; mesosternum oblong. 



Dull-looking insects with close, adpressed pubescence that forms 

 sometimes obscure bands or spots. In the typical forms the 

 anterior and posterior femora are much thicker than the femora 

 of the intermediate legs, but certain species occur in which this 

 is much less marked and these can scarcely be distinguished from 

 Demotina, 



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