44 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Heteromerons Coleoptera 



the hind femora in great part piceous ; the upper surface sparsely 

 clothed with rather long, decumbent, yellowish-cinereous hairs. 

 Head broad, sparsely, finely punctate, very narrowly extended on 

 either side behind the eyes ; the latter large, coarsely granulated, 

 and very narrowly separated in front ; the antennae moderately 

 long, rather stout, joint 1 elongate, 2 short, transverse, 3-10 gradu- 

 ally decreasing in length and increasing in width, 3 twice as long as 

 2, 9 and 10 about as broad as long, 11 long and stout, obliquely 

 truncate and acuminate at the apex. Prothorax subquadrate, a 

 little narrowed in front, slightly broader than long, narrower than 

 the head, thickly, moderately finely punctate. Elytra short, oval, 

 nearly twice as wide as the prothorax, thickly, somewhat coarsely 

 punctate. Legs rather stout, the hind femora strongly clavate, 

 the anterior tibi» bowed inwaixls towards the apex. Length 2-2^, 

 breadth ^ mm. 



Hab. Grenada — Mount Gay Estate, on the Windward 

 side. 



Two males. Allied to the Central-American X. cindl' 

 pe?i?itsand X. chiriqiiensis, Champ., but with shorter and 

 less parallel elytra, differently formed antennas, etc. On 

 bushes, also flying (Smith). 



Xylojyhilus guttatiis, n. sp. (Plate I., fig. 15.) 



Short and broad, convex, dull ; the head piceous or black ; the 

 prothorax ferruginous, with a transverse dark brown fascia across 

 the middle, sometimes divided into three spots ; the elytra testa- 

 ceous or f errugineo-testaceous, with a common transverse patch at 

 the base, sometimes divided at the suture, a spot on the outer part 

 of the disc a little lower down, the sides ia front, an angulated 

 fascia about the middle, and a transverse mark on the outer part of 

 the disc near the apex, dark brown ; the antennte aud legs flavo- 

 testaceous, the hind femora infuscate ; the under surface f usco- 

 ferruginous ; the upper surface closely, finely punctate, and thickly 

 clothed with a fine, sericeous pubescence, which is whitish on the 

 head and scutellum, and on the light-coloured portions of the pro- 

 thorax and elytra, and brown on the other parts ; the under surface 

 also closely punctured and clothed with whitisli pubescence. Head 

 short and broad ; the eyes large, occupying the whole of the side of 

 the head, rather coarsely granulated, narrowly separated in front in 

 the. male, a little more distant in the female; antenjise-^( c? ) 

 ■moderately long, slender, filiform, joints 1 and 2 stout, subequal, 

 .3-10 about equal in length, 8 slightly longer than 2, 1 1 stout, much 



