Descriptions of New Scolytidpe. '^Oo 



Dryoccetes taprohamis, sp. n. 



Oblongus, niger, uigro-piceus vel ferruginous, subnitidus, longius 

 pilosus; prothorace subovato, per toturn, postice rarius, graiiulato ; 

 elytris subtiliter lineato-punctatis, iaterstitiis uniseriatim setosis, 

 apice foi'titer declivi, subdeplanato. Long. 3-3'8 mm. 



Oblong, varying in colour from deep ferruginous to black, usually 

 black with the elytra piceous, with rather long fine erect fulvous 

 pubescence. Front subconvex, impressed over tbe mouth, dull, 

 closely aciculate below, punctate above, towards the vertex with a 

 median shining elevation, pubescence moderately thick ; eyes 

 oblong, with a rather shallow emargination ; antennae ferruginous, 

 the club as in I), autographus. Prothorax a little longer than 

 broad, forming an incomplete oval, widest about the hinder third, 

 the sides behind little rounded, and very slightly constricted in 

 front, base truncate, hind-angles obtuse but not rounded, some- 

 what distinctly margined above the pleural impression; surface 

 regularly convex from base to apex, pilose with erect hairs and 

 asperate with elevated granules, weaker behind and replaced along 

 tbe hind-margin by punctures, median line smooth, subelevated, 

 extending to tbe middle. Scutellum rounded trigonate, smooth, 

 shining. Elytra wider than the prothorax at its base and about a 

 half longer, exactly truncate at the base, with subrectangular 

 shoulders, the sides subparallel to the hinder third, thence 

 obliquely incurved; surface subcyliudrical to about the middle, 

 or somewhat pulvinate, thence obliquely declivous, and convex 

 above, finely hneato-punctate, the punctures shallow, weaker at 

 the sides, the two first strise subimpressed, the sutural the more 

 distinctly, interstices nearly flat, the inner pair very feebly convex, 

 subnitid, with regular single series of erect hairs arising from 

 minute elevated points ; declivity flattened from side to side and 

 weakly impressed on each side of the suture, obsoletely lineato- 

 punctate, the interstitial hairs a little longer. Underside piceous, 

 thinly pilose ; legs ferruginous, the tibiae stout, dilated towards the 

 apex, and rather strongly serrate. 



Rah. Ceylon (Thwaites : in Mus. Oxon.). 



■ The Hope Collection possesses a good series of the 

 species, vv^hich in size nearly equals X. autographus. 

 No well-marked sexual differences appear to be 

 present. 



