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ENTOMOLOGIS 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE: 



VOLUME LIII. 



[THIED SEEIES, VOL. III.] 



NEW XYLOPHILIDS FEOM AUSTEALIA, INDIA AND BOENEO. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



My friend Mr. H. J. Carter has recently sent me for determination 

 four Xylophilids from the neighbourhood of Sydney : three of them 

 are new, the fovirth having been described by Blackburn ; one of the 

 former approaches a Bornean form figured in the 1916 volume of this 

 Magazine. These insects arrived too late to be dealt with in my paper 

 published in Part I of the Trans. Ent. Soc. London, for 1916, in 

 which several other Australian and Indian XylojjJnli are described. 



Mr. E. A. Butler has also brought me two Xylophili from S. India: 

 one, from Mysore, is apparently a (^ of X. armipes Fairm. (it having 

 the anterior tibiae very sharply toothed at about the middle), the 

 other being new. An interesting novelty found by Wallace in Borneo 

 has also been unearthed at the Oxford Museum. 



1. — Xylophilua oetomaculatus, u. sp. 



Moderately elongate, robust, rather broad, shining, clothed with deciunbent, 

 greyish hairs ; black, the antennae obscure ferruginous (except at the base), the 

 prothorax in great part rufescent, the palpi, tarsi, and elytral markings 

 testaceous, the latter consisting of a humeral spot, an elongate, posteriorly 

 acvuninata patch between it and the suture, an oblique oval spot on the inner 

 part of the disc below this, and an anteriorly angulato, transverse, sub-apical 

 fascia (this latter extending forwards towards the median spot, but not quite 

 reaching the suture), the coxae and the femora to near the tip obscure testaceous ; 

 the head and prothorax closely and rather finely, the elytra coarsely, punctate. 

 Head very broad, narrowly extended on each side behind the eyes, the latter 



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