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Female. Short, convex, black, slightly shining, with long fus- 

 cous pubescence. Front subconvex, with not very close piliferous 

 granules, and a median smooth space, epistoma thickly fringed 

 with yellow cilia ; eyes sma'l, emarginate ; antenna) ferruginous, 

 with infuscate club. Prothorax transverse, subbisinuate at base, 

 the hind-angles subobtuse, the sides feebly rounded to before the 

 middle, thence broadly rounded with the apex, of which the 

 margin is prominent and bituberculate in the middle ; surface verj' 

 convex, with a small median transverse elevation, in front decli- 

 vous, asperate, with small granules iu the interspaces, behind 

 cj'liudric, subnitid, with fine and mostly subasperate punctures, 

 the median line indistinct, pubescence long, dense round the 

 margins, the middle of the basal border with a thick fringe of 

 erect hairs. Scutcllum absent. Elytra about as wide as the pro- 

 thorax and scarcely longer, truncate at base, the humeral angles 

 obtuse, the sides elliptically rounded to the apex ; surface declivous 

 and very convex from the base, behind the shoulders with an 

 indistinct callus indicating the junction of the declivity with the 

 horizontal portion, which persists at the sides only, irregularly and 

 finely punctate, the punctures subasperate and bearing long hairs, 

 the sutural stria and part of the lateral stria3 just traceable, par- 

 ticularly towards the apex, which has a raised inferior margin. 

 Legs testaceous, tibise broad and finely serrate. 



Ilah. New Guinea,, Doi'ey (Wallace). 



In tliis species the encroachment of the declivous rctuse 

 surface so often found in Xi/lehortts on to the horizontal 

 portion of the elytra is carried to its very furthest limits, 

 the latter being practically nonexistent. Described from 

 one example; there is another in the British Museum 

 Collection. 



Xylehorus •papucuiiis, sp. n. 



Feji. Oblonga, cylindrica, nigro-picea, antennis pedibusque fer- 

 rngineis, subnitida, brevissime sparsim pilosa ; prothorace subglob- 

 oso, disco medio transverse elevato, postice sat conferte punctato ; 

 elytris dense irregulariter punctatis, apice retuse declivi, impresso, 

 imraarginato, subtiliter lineato-punctato. Long. 3 mm. 



Female. Oblong, cylindrical, rather dull, pitchy-black, Avith 

 scanty and extremely short greyish pubescence, antenure and legs 

 ferruginous. Front subconvex, strongly punctate, v/ith an indis- 

 tinct subelevated median line ; eyes moderately large, deeply 

 emarginate. Prothorax broader than long, nearly globose, the 



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