116 Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford on the 
X, pfeili; sides parallel at base, slightly narrowed and rounded 
behind middle, apex feebly produced in middle, sinuate on 
either side ; their sculpture similar to that of X. pfeili, but with 
the punctuation a little stronger and the points of insertion of 
the hairs on the two first interstices more or less evidently elevated 
and tuberculate. Apical declivity with suture not elevated except 
at apex, where it is callose, the tubercles more prominent, and 
surface less wrinkled and more clearly punctured. Underside 
piceous, or testaceous, with abdomen darker. 
Xyleborus badius, Hichh. 
Hichh., Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1868, p. 280; Rat. Tom., 
p. 379. 
Hiogo, one example (von Schdnfeldt). 
I can see no difference whatever between this insect 
and a typical example from Madagascar. 
NXyleborus vicarius, Kichh. 
Hichh., Scol. Jap., p. 203; Rat. Tom., p. 376. 
No further examples taken. 
The apical declivity of the typical specimens is 
decidedly dull, as in X. affinis, Hichh., and not shining as 
described by Hichhoff. 
Nyleborus minutus, sp. n. 
Fem. Oblonga, nitida, pilis brevibus erectis ornata, ferrugineo- 
testacea ; prothorace latitudine paullo longiore, lateribus leniter, 
apice fortiter rotundato, supra in medio elevato-nodoso, postice 
discrete subtiliter punctulato ; elytris lineato-punctatis, interstitiis 
vix perspicue uniseriatim punctatis, ad apicem oblique declivibus, 
declivitate deplanata, subimpressa, interstitiis omnibus subtilissime 
post medium tuberculatis, versus apicem muticis. Long. 1:5— 
1-7 mm. 
Three examples, Inasa. 
At present the smallest species in the genus, shorter 
though more robust than X. bicolor. 
Oblong, subcylindrical, testaceous-brown, a little darker at the 
extremities. Head finely reticulate, testaceous with epistoma 
darker, front subconvex, punctured at sides and shortly pubescent, 
with a median longitudinal elevation towards vertex, carinate in 
one example, mouth shortly ciliate, eyes oval, flat, emarginate, 
