XTLINOPHOKFS. 191 



■with a uaiTow central furrow and a short lateral stria on each 

 side, the dorsal edges rounded. Antennce piceous, the funicle 

 with the two basal joints equal, 3 and 4 equal and longer than 

 broad, the others rather shorter. Prothorax globose, as long as 

 broad, the sides very strongly rounded, broadest rather beliind 

 the jniddle, with a distinct constriction just before the base, which 

 is markedly broader than the apex, the apical margin strongly 

 oblique at the sides ; the upper surface only sliglitly convex in 

 the middle, coriaceous and shallowly punctate on the "disk, with a 

 A\ell-marked and complete central furrow, the sides closely set 

 Avith low granules. EJi/ira rather broadly ovate, broadest about 

 the middle, the base rather deeply sinuate and narrowly marginate, 

 the apices jointly rounded, the dorsal outline quite flat from the 

 base to the top of the declivity ; the upper surface with a very 

 slialloAv and ill-defined depression on each elytron before the 

 middle, strongly punctato-striate, the punctures slightly shallower 

 behind, stria? 2 and 3 evidently curved outwards near the base, 

 the intervals not broader than the strife, equally raised and finely 

 coriaceous ; the scales very small, almost circular and not touching 

 one another, the setae very minute or absent on the disk, short 

 and erect on the declivity. Legs with the femora coriaceous, the 

 tibias more coarsely sculptured ; the front femora more swollen 

 and shiny ; the front tibiae only slightly curved externallv, deeply 

 bisinuate and coarsely dentate internally ; the hind tibias distinctly 

 curved externally, not compressed, but granulate internally, the 

 corbel bent strongly inwards, its inner edge forming an obtuse 

 angle with the tibite ; the coxae as in L. Jongulus, Fst. 



Length, 8 mm. ; breadth, 3| mm. 



United Provinces : Bagarkote, SOOC ft., Kumaon (Ti/tler). 



TijjDe (S in the Indian Museum. 



Genus XYLINOPHORUS. 



Xylinoplwrus, Faust, Dent. Ent. Zeit. 1885, p. 177. 



Type, Xylinoplwrus prodromus, Fst. 



This genus is very closely allied to Leptomius, Est., and I can 



find only two characters by which it may be distinguished: 



(1) the elytra are not abruptly marginate at the baset but slope 

 gradually forwards to their luuction with the mesonotum; (2) the 

 second ventral segment is much longer in the middle than the 

 third and fourth together. 



Faust founded the genus for those species referred to ThyJacites, 

 Schh., in which the taroal claws are connate, but it also difiiers 

 froui that geuus in having the corbels of the hind tibia? bare of 

 scaling. 



Range. Northern India and Turkestan. 



