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and running obliquely to tlie middle of the club, where it 

 ceases. The maxillary lobe is set with fine setiforra spines, 

 closer at the tip ; the maxillary palpi have the first two joints 

 transverse, the third more than twice as long as broad ; the 

 men turn is oblong, narrowed in the middle, with the sides 

 incurved ; the labial palpi are inserted close together, the 

 first and third joints are longer than broad. 



The genus is intermediate between Xyloctonus, Eichh., 

 and Scdytogenes^ Eichh., and presents the same Scolytus-\\kQ 

 upward fiexure of the abdomen. It differs from the former 

 in the much larger oval antennal club and the undivided eyes, 

 and from the latter in the six-jointed antennal funiculus. 

 The maxillary armature is that of a xylophagous rather than 

 a phloeophagous species ; and these genera, which show 

 certain affinities with Trypodendron, are perhaps wrongly 

 placed near the Cryphali. 



Scolytoviimus diluiuSj sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovalis, opacus, glaber, fusco-piceus, elytris stramineis, 

 autennis pedibusque testaceis ; prothorace semiorbiculato, basi 

 bisinuato, apice tuberculo unico exstructo, supra convexe gibboso 

 ante basin transverse impresso, granulato, anterius tuberculis 

 magnis, discretis exstructo; elj'tris prothorace sesquiloiigioribus, 

 lateraliter ad medium reetis, inde rotundatis, apice medio baud 

 profuude emarginatis, supra subdepressis, punctato-striatis, 

 punctis magnis, iuterstitiis fere planis, angustis, confuse subtiliter 

 pnuctulatis, 0° ad apicem elevato et cum margine laterali ad angu- 

 lum emargiuationis externum coujuncto, Subtus piceus, abdo- 

 minis segmentis 2°-5'" transverse impressis, porcatis. 



Long. 2 mm. 



Bub. Ceylon, Bogawantalawa. Two specimens. 



This insect can hardly be confounded with any other 

 species except Xyhctonus scolytoides, Eichh., from which it 

 diff"ers by the generic characters, the very large scutellum, 

 and the absence of costse on the elytra. 



Dryoccetes Jlavicornis^ sp. n. 



Oblongus, cylindrieus, sat nitidus, parce breviter pilosus, pedibus 

 nigro-pieeis, autennis tarsisque flavo-testaceis, fronte convexa, 

 nitida, fortiter punctata, linea media subcarinata ; antennarum* 

 scapo longo, clava ovali, compressa, baud cvidenter articulata, ad 

 apicem praecipue inferne pubescente; prothorace oblongo, mox 

 ante basin latissimo, lateribus parum apice fortius singulatim 

 rotundatis, anguhs posticis obtusis, dorso leviter convexo, baud 

 gibboso, asperate, tuberculis posterius subtilioribus, prseter 



