BY A. M. LKA. 555 



Head with numerous, small punctures: with a shallow but 

 fairly distinct, median line. Eyes prominent, lightly notched, 

 separated for about the length of the basal, antennal joint. An- 

 tennie moderately long and not very thin, second joint slightly 

 shorter than third, eleventh distinctly wider than tenth, and 

 almost as long as ninth and tenth combined. Pvothorax rather 

 small, moderately transverse; with dense but somewhat iri'egular 

 punctures; with a distinct, medio-basal impression (evidently the 

 remnant of a median line) and a transverse one on eacli side near 

 base, and with remnants of a very feeble one across middle. 

 Elytra much wider than prothorax, parallel-sided to near apex, 

 with a moderate swelling close to scutellum on each side of base; 

 and a shallow depression commencing between each swelling and 

 the shoulder, and ending behind the swelling; with dense and 

 sharply defined punctures of moderate size, but becoming small 

 posteriorly. Legs rather long and thin: hind-tibia^ no wider at 

 apex than in middle. Length, 2\ mm. 



Hah. — Tasm.: Mole Creek (A. M. Lea). 



The type appears to be a female, and, in general appearance, 

 is close to X. iininaculatns; but the antenna? are darker, pro- 

 thorax with three basal impressions, and head with a distinct, 

 median line towards base. The elytra are uniformly blackish, 

 but not of quite so deep a black as the head and prothorax; the 

 appendages are more or less piceous-brown, w4th the tarsi paler. 



Xylophilus variicornis, n.sp. 



(J. Piceous-brown, appendages paler, head and undersurface 

 black or blackish. Clo.sely covered with very short, ashen 

 pubescence. 



Head rather strongly transverse, with small but fairly distinct 

 punctures. Eyes large, prominent, lightly notched, distance 

 between them at their closest about equal to the length of the 

 two basal joints of antennae. Antenna? rather long and thin, 

 second joint small and subglobular, none of the others transverse, 

 eleventh not much wider or longer than tenth. Prothorax small 

 and lightly transverse; with dense and rather distinct punctures: 

 with a transverse depression (dilated on each side) across middle, 



