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Aylesinus granulifer, Motsch. Bull. Mose. xxxvi. 1863, xi. 
p- 516. 
Hylesinus scobtipennis, ? Hichh. Chap. Syn. Scol. 1873, p. 238. 
Hab. Ceylon. 
A single example from Singapore (Bryant). 
Hylesinus bakeri, sp. n. 
Head, prothorax, and legs black; elytra brown with a 
purple tinge. Front coucave and punctured, with a small 
depression above the mouth and longitudinal aciculations 
above the somewhat large elongate eyes, and fine recumbent 
hairs over the deep antennal fovee. 
Prothorax nearly one-fourth broader than long, the sides 
rounded from the basal angles and censtricted at the anterior 
fourth ; the dise strongly rugose, especially anteriorly and 
laterally ; a longitudinal shiny carina from the base to the 
apical third, with depressions on each side of the central 
nodosity. 
Scutellum black, shiny, and subglobular. 
Elytra twice as long, and slightly broader at the apical 
third than the prothorax ; longitudinally convex from base to 
apex, the sides subparallel to centre and then rounded to the 
sliglitly sinuous and acute apex ; the strize deep and coarsely 
punctured, the interstices consisting of elevated rows of 
contiguous piliferous beads of a dull colour, the first and third 
interstices continued more distinctly to the apex than the 
others; the second interstice broadened and 4ransversely 
rugose basally, on the declivity the interstices 1, 3, 5, and 7 
have longer hairs than the rest. 
Abdomen with segments 3, 4, and 5 of a dead black, with 
single transverse rows of very deeply marked shiny punc- 
tures; the fifth segment is provided with a tuft of longish 
apical hairs on each side of the centre; the metasternum 
covered with coarse piliferous punctures, the anterior coxe 
very hairy and approximate to each other. 
Length 4°5, breadth 4:2 mm, 
Hab. B. N. Borneo. 
‘Type in the British Museum. 
This species may possibly be the same as Hylesinus suma- 
tranus, Haged., figured by him (Gen. Insect. Wytsman, 
fase. ili. pl. i, fig. 14), but not described anywhere as far 
as I can discover ; there are, however, points of difference 
between my species and Hagedorn’s figure. 
