:Mi-. W. L. Distant on Pentatomida'. oi:> 



Axiagastus cambelli, sp. ii. 



Black; lateral margins and longitudinal lines to liead^ 

 sublateral margins and suftasious to anterior area of pro- 

 notum, basal margin, central lateral margins and apex of 

 scutellura, a spot or posterior disk of corium, antennae, 

 rostrnm, body beneath, and legs ocbraceous ; transverse 

 fascise to sternum and abdomen, two curved longitudinal 

 lines at middle of head beneath, spiracles and a central 

 longitudinal fascia to abdomen, and apex of rostrum black ; 

 iirst joint of antennre not reaching apex of head, second and 

 third subequal in length, fourth and fifth a little longest and 

 also subequal ; spines from buccuke long, acutely downwardly 

 produced ; body above thickly punctate except on the oclira- 

 ceous markings ; connexivum ochraceous, with black spots 

 at the abdominal incisures, and inwardly margined with the 

 same colour; membrane dark bronzy, slightly passing the 

 abdominal apex. 



Long. 13 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 8 mm. 



JJah. Solomon Islands {W. H. Cambell) ; Duke of York 

 Island ; Aignan Island (Brit. ]\Ius.). On Solomon Islands 

 "destructive to coconuts" {W. H. Cambell). 



Genus Euryaspis. 



Eunjasph, Sign. Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. (2) ix, p. 342 (18-31). 

 Type, E. Iransversalis, Sign. 



Euryaspis jj(tv€scens, sp. n. 



Flavescent; antennse reddish testaceous, first joint not 

 reaching apex of head, second a little longer than first, much 

 shorter than third, which is a little longer than either fourth 

 or fifth, these being almost equal in length; head more or 

 less suffused with pale testaceous red, lol)es equal in length; 

 pronotum thickly, obscurely, finely punctate, the extreme 

 anterior and lateral margins narrowly palely levigate, the 

 cicatrices near the anterior margin ; scutellum and corium 

 thickly, obscurely, finely punctate ; rostrum (excluding basal 

 joint) testaceous, reaching intermediate coxse; sternum 

 finely punctate, abdomen more obscurely finely punctate; 

 abdominal spiracles black ; abdomen basally, centrally, 

 spinously tuberculate ; metasternum elevated ; mesosternal 

 carination somewhat strongly elevated, in front reaching the 

 anterior coxEe, posteriorly ampliated. 



Long. 13-lli mm. 

 Ann. cC- }[ag. N. llud. Sev. 8. Vol. vii. 23 



