576 Mr. W. F. H. Blandford’s supplementary notes 
crenate, hind angles obtuse, base subtruncate ; surface with an 
indistinct median transverse elevation, thinly pubescent, its 
anterior half with fine somewhat scattered granular asperities, its 
posterior half rather closely and finely punctate, with a slightly 
depressed patch at base set with close upstanding pubescence and 
intersected by a subelevated median shining line. Scutellum tri- 
angular, rather large. Elytra nearly one-half longer than the 
prothorax, with oblique but scarcely rounded basal margins, the 
shoulders rectangular, the sides straight and subparallel with a very 
slight posterior divergence ; surface cylindric, obliquely truncate 
behind from the posterior third, with lines of very fine punctures, 
interstices with finer irregular piliferous punctures, truncate 
area subcircular, sharply margined all round, subconcave on 
each side and elevated along the suture, dull, glabrous, with three 
rows of punctures on either side, the interstices flat, irregularly 
punctured, its inferior apical border forming a very obtuse angle 
when seen from above. Underside and legs hght testaceous. 
Of the Xylebori known to me, this species is most like 
X. (Tomicus) truncatus, Hr., with which I identify a 
Tasmanian example before me. That species is larger, 
darker and without the patch of hair on the base of the 
prothorax, its elytra are longer, the apical truncate 
surface is nearly vertical, convex, shortly pilose, shining, 
with three impressed striz on either side, the interstices 
convex and muitipunctate. 
The following species should succeed X. validus on 
p: 108 :— 
Xyleborus interjectus, sp. n. 
Fem. Oblonga, sat nitida, nigro-picea; X. valido, Hichh. 
simillima, distinguenda elytris pro portione brevioribus, prothorace 
vix sesqui longioribus, a basi usque ad apicem convexioribus, 
lineato-punctatis, striis non impressis, interstitiis planis, pilis 
erectis longioribus e punctis subasperatis egredientibus per totum 
confertius seriatis, apice minus deplanato, punctis striarum et 
tuberculis minoribus, interstitiis vix convexis. Long. 3:4 mm. 
Hab. Japan; one specimen (coll. Lewis): Cuina, 
Chusan Is. (Walker). 
This species so closely resembles the common Japanese 
X. validus that it is not necessary to give further 
characters than those contained in the diagnosis. It can 
be distinguished without comparison by the non-im- 
pressed lines of punctures on the elytra, by the long and 
close seriate bristles of the interstices, which arise even 
