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moderately transverse, sides wider near apex tlian elsewhere; 

 with numerous, fairly strong punctures; with a fairly large fovea 

 on each side of middle of base; a shallow, longitudinal impres- 

 sion, and a shallow, transverse one slightly in advance of the 

 middle. Elytra much wider than prothorax, sides gently dilated 

 to beyond the middle: with dense and sharply defined, but not 

 verv large punctures, rather larger on and about some feeble 

 basal swellings than elsewhere. Le<js rather long; hind-tibiw 

 thin and parallel-sided except at extreme base. Length, 2 mm. 



tlab. — Tasm.: Mount Wellington (A. M. Lea). 



The two males before me (one of which belongs to Mr. H. H. 

 D. Griffith) at first glance appear like small, dingy specimens of 

 X. pecti7dco7'nis, but may be at once distinguished by tlie eyes. 

 Champion says of the eyes of that species, "very large, narrowly 

 separated in front"; and a specimen before me, that agrees well 

 with his description and figure, has the eyes so close together 

 that, at first glance, they appear to be touching, and the distance 

 separating them is only about the width of a facet, certainly dis- 

 tinctly less than the thickness of the basal joint of an antenna. 

 On the present species, the eyes, although large, are much smaller 

 than on that species, and even more apart than those of its 

 female, the distance between them at their nearest being about 

 equal to the diameter of an eye, and quite as much as the length 

 of the basal joint of an antenna; there are also slight differences 

 in the sculpture elsewhere. 



Xylophilus spiNiPES, n.sp. 



(J. Black; prothorax, shoulders, palpi, four front legs, and 

 hind-tarsi reddish. Modeiately clothed with ashen or whitish 

 pubescence. 



Head with small but fairly dense punctures. Eyes large, close 

 togetlier, and subtriangularly notched. .Vntennse moderately 

 long and not very thin, second joint small, third to tenth each 

 almost as long as wide, eleventh slightly longer than ninth and 

 tenth (combined. Prolhorax rather small, almost parallel-sided 

 from base to near apex; vvith a shallow and irregular median 

 line, and a small depression on each side of base; punctures 



