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3. The larva of the new species, even more than that of 

 E. bamardi, resembles that of Paltosloma. Both species, 

 •however, differ from Paltosloma in the form of the branchial 

 tufts, which seems to strengthen the view that these organs 

 are valuable for purposes of classification. 



4. The arrangement of the larval spines appears to be a 

 matter of considerable constancy, and, therefore, systematic 

 importance. 



XXVII.— -The Xylophilidse of Ceylon. 

 By G. C. Champion, F.Z.S. 



Me. G. E. Bryant having kindly lent me his series of the 

 Coleopterous family Xylophilidse from Ceylon, named by Pic 

 in 1912, the opportunity is taken of describing some additional 

 species from the same island, mainly obtained by Mr. G. 

 Lewis in 1881-1882. The types of the new forms, including 

 the two detected in Mr. Bryant's collection, are all contained 

 in the British Museum. Twenty-one Xylophilids are now 

 known from the Island, four only of them having been iden- 

 tified from other Indian localities. Kandy, it may be noted, 

 is at a much lower level (1546-1727 ft.) than the places 

 where Mr. Lewis's insects were obtained. 



HYLOE-iENUS, Pic. 

 Uylobcenus fasciatus. 

 Hylvbcvnus fasciatus, Pic, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, p. 272. 



Hub. Ceylon, Galle [type] ; Tenasserim, Tavoy. 



The type of this species was captured by Mr. Bryant at 

 Galle on July 1st, 1908. There is another example of it in 

 the British Museum, found by Doherty, at Tavoy, this latter 

 having the intermediate and posterior femora and tibise almost 

 black, but differing in no other respect from the somewhat 

 immature type, which has the intermediate legs (the knees 

 excepted) testaceous. Both appear to be females. The 

 completely connate first two ventral segments is an additional 

 character for the genus Uylobcenus. 



EuxYLOPHiLUS, gen. no v. 



Antennas with joints 5-10 flattened, dilated, and serrate, 

 3 narrow, cylindrical, longer than 2 or 4 ; eyes feebly emar- 

 ginatej prothorax longer than broad, subovate ; elytra very 

 elongate ; the other characters as in Xylophilus, Latr. 



Type, E. principalis. 



