Orxines Stål, 1875, p. 43 & 87.
Type species. - Orxines xiphias (Westwood) [Anophelepis xiphias] designated by Rehn, 1904, 71.

Main characteristics. -  Head unarmed and elongate as in preceding genus but not flattened nor narrow; elytra absent or poorly developed and scale-like; micropterous, wings scale-like in males, and spatulate or oval in females; operculum in females extended far beyond abdomen, corneous, tubular, hind margin split or emarginate, with long free ovipositor; legs slender and unarmed, but distinctly carinate.

Distribution. - Sumatra, Java, the Moluccas and New Guinea.

Represented in New Guinea by:
xiphias (Westwood), 1859, p. 71 &%,  pl. 4 figs. 4 & 5 (Anophelepis)
     [OXUM].
     Orxines xiphias (Westwood) Stål, 1875b, p. 87.
     Acacus buruensis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907, p. 252 [ZMAS]. 
     (synonymised by Günther, 1935a, p. 79).