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3 a little longer than 2, 3-10 very gradiially decreasing in length, 5-9 about as 

 broad as long, 10 transverse, 11 stout, as long as 9 and 10 united, obliqviely 

 acuminate, (?) a little shorter and more slender. Prothorax nearly as long as 

 broad, much narrower than the head in <? , parallel-sided, slightly narrowed in 

 front, unimpressed. Elytra moderately long, a little Avider than the head, very 

 gradually narrowed from near the base, the post-basal depression oblique and 

 ratlier deep. Legs long, comparatively stout ; anterioi- tibiae mucronate at the 

 inner apical angle, and feebly sinixate, in ^ ; postei-ior femora strongly clavate 

 and arcuately swollen in front in <? , more slender and simply clavate in $ ; 

 jjosterior tibiae stout and slightly bent outwards from about the middle in ^ ; 

 basal joint of posterior tarsi distinct)}' curved in both sexes. Length 2-2|, 

 breadth ^ mm. 



Hah. : Borneo, Mt. Mataug, W. Sarawak {G. E. Bryant : 

 17.xii. 18). 



Two males and oue female. More robust than X. cribricollis* 

 (= mucronatus) Pic, from Ceylon, the body similarly coloured, the 

 antennae shorter and wholly testaceous, the prothorax longer ; the 

 anterior tibiae not abruptly bent, and the posterior femora stouter and 

 greatly swollen in front, in i^ . 



4.- — Xylopliilus lentus n. sp. 



(J , Oblong, robust, shining ; testaceous, the head and prothorax reddish 

 in one example, the eyes black ; densely, finely, the elytra a little more coarsely, 

 punctate; thickly clothed with rather long, pallid hairs. Head short, broad, 

 very narrowly extended on each side behind the eyes, the latter large, deeply 

 emarginate, and separated by about half their own width ; antennae stout, 

 moderately long, joint 1 mucli thickened, 2 short, 3 scai'cely longer, 3-10 very 

 gradually decreasing in length, 11 acuminate-ovate. Prothorax considerably 

 narrower than the head, transverse, sub-quadrate, convex, obsolctely canaliculate 

 down tlie middle behind. Elytra rather short, wider than the head, gradually 

 narrowing from near the base, with an oblique intra-humeral depression. Legs 

 uniisually stout, rather long ; anterior tibiae bowed inwards near the tip and 

 armed witli a rather long tooth at the inner apical angle ; posterior femora 

 strongly clavate ; posterior tibiae rather broad and compressed. Length 2, 

 breadth ^ mm. 



Hah.: Borneo, Mt. Matang, W. Sarawak (G. E. Bryant: 18.i.l4, 

 ii.l914). 



Two males. Less elongate than X. erythroderns, wholly (the eyes 

 excepted) testaceous or rufo-testaceous, the antennae stouter, the pro- 

 thorax shorter ; the anterior tibiae abruptly bent inwards near the tip 

 and stronglv mucronate at the apex, and the posterior femora not nearly 

 so stout, in (^ . X. ceylnvicvs Pic, from Kandy, is a similarly coloured, 



* Owing to some mistake in lofality-lalicUing, the tj'pc, cJ , of A', riihricollix was stated to be from 

 W. Australia: n'. Aim, and Mag. Xat. Hist. (8*, xvi, p. 221. 



