19U XYLINAÜES ROELOFSI. 



^'UTE XXIV. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUMATIUN SPECIES 

 OF ÏIIE ANÏHUIl^ID GENUS XYLINADES, LATR. 



HY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Xylinades Roelof si., n. sp. cf. 



Length from the auterior margin of' the prothorax to 

 the apex of the elytra 10' ., mm., width of the shouklers 

 of the elytra 4 mm. — Dark pieeous; covered with a 

 rusty-red pubescence , variegated with numerous black dots 

 and spots. The antennal club has the shape of a broad 

 ellipse, and the outer margin of the four posterior tibiae 

 is deeply grooved. 



The head and rostrum are short and broad; the former 

 is naked and fiuely chagrined on the vertex and behind 

 the eyes and provided between the eyes with three smooth 

 keels of which the external ones extend to the base of 

 the rostrum and diverge towards the vertex of the head; 

 the rostrum is rugose, sparsely pubescent, and provided 

 with a faint smooth keel; the front margin is not deeply 

 emarginate in the middle. The joints of the antennae are 

 short and gradually decrease in length towards the club; 

 the 5th and succeeding joints are provided with a short 

 fringe at the undersurface; the club has the shape of a 



Notes Irona the Leyclen IMuseuni , Vol. IV'. 



