112 XYI.OPHILUS FASCIOLATUS. 



NOTE VIII. 



NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTEIU BELONGING TO THE 

 FAMILIES FEDILIDAE AND ANTIIICIDAE. 



DESCRIBED BY 



S. DE MARSEÜL ')• 



M*edilidae ^). 



1. Xylojyhiltis fasciolatus , sp. u. 



Leug'th 2 mm., breadth 1 mm. — Oblong , rather broad , 

 slightly convex , but little glossy , of a reddish testaceous 

 colour , provided with a large elongated brown spot on the 

 middle of each elytron , and covered with a very fine and 

 short greyish pubescence ; the elytra show moreover a second 

 pubescence which is recumbent, fine and white, covers the 

 base and the extremity, and forms an M- or zigzagshaped 

 band. — Head closely punctured, broad and thick, a little 

 convex on the vertex; eyes black, large, prominent, rea- 

 ching almost to the posterior border , sinuated in front , 

 rather approximate on the fore-head. Antennae reaching 

 beyond the shoulders, the first joints slender and oblong, 

 the 3rd a little smaller than the 2nd, the following ones 

 a little broader and transverse , the apical joint obtuse 



1) See also Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. Vol. XXV. p. öl. 



2) I have come to the conclusion that the genus Macratria Nevviii, ought 

 to he classed in the family of the Anthicidae (V Ahaillc. Vol. XVII. p. S). 



NoCe.s tvotii Hie Leyclen ]VIuseu.ni, "\'^ol. I^''. 



