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scanty ; eyes oval, emarginate, Prothor.-ix a little broader thau 

 long, widest at the base, the sides rounded in a gradually- 

 increasing curve from the base to the apex, the apical margin 

 broadly rounded and erenate, hind-angles slightly obtuse, the base 

 subtruncate ; surface convex, with an obtuse post-median transverse 

 gibbosity, strongly declivous in front, and asperate with imbricate 

 rugiB, behind subnitid, obsoletely punctured, obliquely impressed 

 within the hind-anglcs. Elytra as wide as the prothorax and 

 scarcely a half longer, with subrectangular shoulders, parallel- 

 sided to the middle, slightly narrowed behind, broadly rounded and 

 sharply margined at apex ; surface convex from base to apex, 

 punctured in subimpressed rows, interstices transversely rugulose, 

 with seriate hairs from the base to the apex, arising from small 

 points, elevated and tuberculiform on the posterior declivous 

 portion. 



Jlab. Ceylon (G. Lewis). 



Intimately allied to X. fornicafns, from wliicli at first 

 I was unable to sepai'ate it. Having* now seen both tlie 

 type and a long series of the latter species, I am able 

 to distinguish betvpeen them. The present species is 

 rather larg-er and broader than its ally, with the elytra 

 relatively rather shorter; the prothorax is widest at the 

 base, and the sides quite regularly rounded to the apex, 

 while in X. fornicatns the thorax is as wide at the 

 anterior third as at the base, and the sides are more 

 parallel. X. xantJiojnis, another allied species, has the 

 elytra relatively longer than those of X. fornicaius, and 

 the prothorax more nearly orbicular. 



XyJehorus furnicatus. 



X. fornicatus, $, Eichh., Berl. ent. Zeitschr., 1868, 

 p. 151; Eat. Tom., p. 327. 



Mas. Minutus, oblongus, testaceus vel piceo-fuscus, longius 

 parce pilosus ; prothorace transverse quadrato, antice rarius 

 granulate ; elytiis ab antica tertia parte obliquissime declivibn?, 

 striato-punctatis, interstitiis seriato-setosis. Long, l-i mm. 



Male. Very small, oblong, rather shining, varying from pallid 

 testaceous to pitchy-fuscous, with long sparse erect setce. Front 

 somewhat flattened, Avith an indistinct longitudinal elevation, 

 shining, obsoletely punctate, scantily hairy ; eyes small, narrow 



