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surface piceous-black behind, piceous-red in front, with long ful- 

 vous pubescence round the margins, transversely elevated behind the 

 middle, the anterior half convex, asperate with elevated transverse 

 rugfe, smaller and closer posteriorly, their interspaces with minute 

 granules, posterior part declivous from the elevation to the base, 

 subopaquo, with fine granules, not close, and obsolete on the hind- 

 margin, the median line fine, shining, raised and extending to the 

 elevation. Scutellum small, subtriangular, piceous-black. Elytra 

 scarcely as wide at base as the prothorax, and one-half longer, their 

 basal margins slightly curved, the shoulders rounded, the sides 

 straight and subdivergent, the apical margin subtruncate when 

 seen from above ; surface cylindrical, obliquely retuse at apex, 

 piceous, lighter towards the base, tolerably shining, remotely 

 lineato-punctate, the interstices quite flat, finely multipunctate, their 

 punctures bearing fine fulvous hairs, and subrugose towards the 

 apex, all the punctuation feeble at the base, and becoming stronger 

 posteriorly ; apical retuse surface beginning at the basal third, its 

 margins meeting at an acute angle above, and circularly rounded 

 below, prominent but not acute, their upper third subtuberculate ; 

 fundus depressed below the margins, convex from before back- 

 wards, subnitid, pubescent with decumbent yellowish hairs, striato- 

 punctate with shallow large punctures, 2nd interstice elevated and 

 callose, 5-tuberculate, the three superior tubercles strong, conical. 

 Underside piceous; legs deep ferruginous, the -tibia; very broad, 

 strongly rounded and finely serrate on the upper margin ; tarsal 

 claws toothed at the base. 



Hah. New Guinea, Humboldt Bay (Doherty). 



This species, of which I have seen no second example, 

 is by far the largest of the genus, and in bulk of all the 

 Tomicidte yet known, though it is exceeded shghtly in 

 length by one or two species of Amphicranus, and 

 perhaps by exceptionally large individuals of some 

 species of Tomicus. 



Xylehorus globus, sp. n. 



Fem. Curta, subovalis, convexa, subnitida, nigra, longe fusco- 

 pilosa, pedibus testaceis ; prothorace transverso, lateribus postice 

 subrectis, antice cum apice coujunctim rotundatis, margine 

 apicali medio bituberculato, dorso postice subasperate punctulato 

 et in margine medio dense hirto ; elytris semiovalibus a basi ipsa 

 convexe declivibus, confuse punctatis, post medium perindistincte 

 striatis. Long 5 mm. 



