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in front, the apical margin crenate and everted but not projecting, 

 the sides scarcely rounded behind the middle, hind-angles sub- 

 obtuse but not rounded, the base transverse ; surface cylindrical 

 behind the middle, declivous and convex in front but with no 

 evident gibbosity at the junction, reddish-pitchy, lighter anteriorly, 

 uniformly pubescent, with a few erect hairs round the margins, 

 the anterior half asperate with small scattered transverse rugse, 

 intermixed with granules, the posterior half very finely and rather 

 closely punctured, with no evident median line. Scutellum rounded, 

 subconvex, shining, black. Elytra scarcely as wide as the pro- 

 thorax and less than a half longer, truncate at base, the shoulders 

 rounded, the sides subparallel, rounded and inflexed behind the 

 middle, the apical margius oblique and not conjointly rounded ; 

 surface convex from base to apex, rather strongly declivous behind 

 the middle, piceous, with short appressed cinereous hairs, closely 

 punctured and except over the basal third covered with scattered 

 granules (with microscopic examination only, the punctures of the 

 true stria3 can just be differentiated from those of the interstices) ; 

 declivity not acutely margined below, convex, very faintly striate. 

 Underside piceo-ferruginous, pubescent ; legs brown-testaceous, all 

 the tibife rounded and fiuely serrate above. 



Hah. BorueOj Sarawak (Wallace). 



Evidently related to K. pelliculosus, Eichli., and like 

 that insect, with the prothorax of the type of his 

 Division J II. X. pruiiiosus is a much larger and 

 stouter insect, differently proportioned, with the elytra 

 pulvinate, more strongly punctate as well as granulate, 

 and not impressed at apex. 



Xylehorus puheridus, sp. n. 



Feji. Oblonga, cylindrica, fusco-picea, subopaca, pube brevi 

 vestita ; fronte hand carinata ; prothorace manifeste oblongo, 

 apice rotundato, lateribus postice rectis, dorso antice dilutiore, 

 postice subtiliter puuctulato ; elytris prothorace vix longioribus, 

 indistinctissime striatis, interstitiis mox pone basin granulis 

 elevatis sine ordine instructis, apice fortiter declivi, hand impresso. 

 Long. 2'3 mm. 



Female. Oblong, cylindrical, dull, clothed with short rather 

 dense pubescence, relatively louger than in A', jjivf/uo-sfts. Head 

 pitchy, front subconvex, dull, shortly hairy, not evidently punctate, 

 not carinate ; eyes moderate, deeply emarginate ; antennae testa- 



