222 Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford's 



"with an irregular shallow sutural impression beginning behind the 

 base, rugulose, infuscate and more strongly tuberculate ; declivity 

 more retuse, beginning subaVjruptly above, shining, irregular, more 

 obsoletely sculptured. 



Hah. Gilolo (Wallace) ; Java. 



I have received a good series from Java, where this 

 species, in association with Glenea novemguttata, Cast., 

 and a species of Helopeltis has inflicted very grave 

 damage to cacao-plantations. 



Xylehorus andamanensis. sp. n. 



Fem. Oblonga, subuitida, nigro-picea, pai'ce pilosa ; prothoracc 

 subquadrato, lateribus et apice leniter singulatim rotundatis, dorso 

 gibboso, postice subl-^vi ; elytris dilutioribus, lineato-punctatis, 

 intcrstitiis planis, seriato-setosis, declivitate perobliqua, subopaca, 

 subtus acute marginata, striata, striis ad apicem sinuatis, inter- 

 stitiis granulis elevatis parvis jequaliter notatis. Long 3 mm. 



Female. Oblong, moderately shining, scantily hairy, deep 

 piceous, the head and elytra somewhat lighter. Front convex, 

 strongly punctured, impressed on either side over the mouth, the 

 impressions separated by a median raised line ; eyes oblong, 

 deeply emarginate ; antenna) brown-testaceous. Prothorax as 

 broad as long, subquadrate but with the sides and apex evidently, 

 though slightly, and the anterior angles more strongly rounded, 

 hind-angles obtuse, the base subtruncate ; surface transversely 

 gibbous in the middle, anteriorly rather finely granulate-asperate, 

 posteriorly moderately shining, finely reticulate, and obsoletely 

 punctured. Scutellum triangular, subnitid, longitudinally im- 

 pressed. Elytra scarcely as wide as the prothorax and less than a 

 half longer, subparallel-sided, strongly rounded at the apex, its 

 margin acute and subexplanate ; surface cyliudrico-convex to the 

 middle, thence obliquely declivous, lineato-puuctate, with very 

 shallow variolose punctures, interstices flat, rugulose, with uni- 

 seriate erect hairs arising from small points, which become elevated 

 before the middle, declivity convex, subopaque, with feeble striae 

 towards the apex, the 1st somewhat impressed, the others sinuate 

 outwards, interstices with uniform rows of small granules, obsolete 

 towards the tip of the 1st interstice. 

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Hah.. Aaidgiiraan Is. 



