BY A. M. LEA. 547 



specimens of C. pidhUa, but with prothorax more liausverse, 

 sides not conspicuously bisinuate, elytra less narrowed posteriori}^, 

 and with distinct striation, etc. Each side of the protliorax, 

 instead of being conspicuously bisinuate as on most s} ecies of 

 the subfamily, sweeps round in an even curve from the base to 

 Vjeyond the middle, and then obliquely to the apex, so that the 

 sides (but not the base) more nearly approach those of the species 

 of Glycyphaaa, than of its own allies. It has been referred to 

 Cacochroa, with some doubt, but the mesosteriial piocess is too 

 long for it to be placed in Diapho7iia, or a closely allied genus. 

 The specimen in the Macleay Museum is obscurely diluted with 

 red towards the elytral suture and towards the sides of the pro- 

 notum, but, to the naked eye, appears as dark as the type. '1 he 

 abdomen is not concave along the middle, and the flattening is 

 such as occurs on some females in the subfamily: but, on dissection 

 of the type, an cedeagus was found. 



XYLOPHILID^. 



Xylophilus mirocerus, n.sp. (Plate xxix., fig. 1 ). 



^. Piceous-brown ; elytra Havous, with conspicuous brown 

 markings and a vague pruinose gloss, antennse and legs brownish- 

 ilavous or castaneous, tarsi paler. Upper surface sparsely pubes- 

 cent, elytra almost glabrous. 



Head with eyes large, deeply notched, and almost touching in 

 front. Antennae moderately long, inserted in ocular notches; 

 second joint short, as wide as tip of first, third subquadrate, 

 much wider than second, fourth to seventh about as wide as third 

 but slightly decreasing in length, eighth and ninth distinctly 

 smaller, tenth and eleventh distorted. Prothorax decidedly 

 transverse, sides gently rounded; with fairly dense and sharply 

 defined, but not very large punctures; with two distinct and 

 lightly separated niedio-basal impressions. Elytra about one- 

 fourth wider than prothorax, sides almost parallel to beyond the 

 middle; with fairly numerous punctures, sharply defined and of 

 moderate size only about a feeble, subscutellar elevation. Hind 

 femora inflated towards, and subangular near apex; hind-tibite 

 long, thin, and lightly bisinuate. Length, 2 mm. 



