Descnptions of New Scolytidse. 227 



Xylehorus andrewesi, sp. n, 



Fem. Elongata, piceo-fusca, antennis et pedibus flavis, sub- 

 nitida, sat breviter erecte pilosa ; prothorace oblongo, apice late 

 Totundato, lateribus parallelis, dorso post medium sat conferte 

 punctulato, linea media Isevi ; elytris post medium gradatim 

 attenuatis, lineato-punctatis, interstitiis seriato-setosis, 1° a medio, 

 3°, b'^ in declivitate tuberculatis, hac obliqua, pruinoso-opaca, 

 interstitio 2° impresso. Long. 2 mm. 



Female. Elongate, moderately shining, pitchy-fuscous, the 

 base of the prothorax and apex of the elytra somewhat lighter, the 

 antennae and legs yellow, with short moderately close erect pale 

 hairs. Front subimpressed on either side over the mouth, dull, 

 finely shagreened, not strongly punctate nor hairy; eyes rather large, 

 deeply emargiuate. Prothorax oblong, exactly parallel-sided, 

 broadly rounded at the apex, the hind-angles rounded, the base 

 truncate; surface with an ante-median transverse elevation, declivous 

 in front and asperate with imbricate rugaj, behind cylindrical, 

 slightly depressed, subnitid, with moderately close and rather fine 

 punctures, the median line impunctate, the interspaces transversely 

 rugulose, pubescence thin, longer over the apical, shorter but 

 present over the basal half. Scutellum triangular, partly con- 

 cealed by hairs. Elytra as broad as the prothorax and a half 

 longer, with subrectangular shoulders, parallel-sided to the middle, 

 thence gradually and subacuminately narrowed to the apex, hind- 

 margin seen from above short and transverse ; surface sub- 

 cylindrical to behind the middle, thence gradually declivous and 

 convex, rather finely punctured in rows, the punctures shallow, 

 bearing minute hairs, interstices flat, rugulose, with stronger seriate 

 hairs, the 1st and 3rd seriato-tuberculate, the tubercles beginning 

 on the 1st before the middle, rather remote, and weak towards the 

 apex, on the 3rd about the middle, and strong to the apex, the 6th 

 and outer interstices with finer tubercles towards the tip ; declivity 

 opaque, impressed along the 2ud interstice, the 3rd subcallose. 

 Underside concolorous. 



Hah. India, Belgaum (Andrewes). 



Allied to X. exiguus, Walk. ; but larger, more elongate, 

 and much more gradually attenuated behind ; the first and 

 third interstices alone armed before the declivity with 

 much more remote tubercles, the declivity opaque. One 

 example. 



