the Xylophilidae of Ceylon. 217 



in the middle ; anterior tibia? mucronate at the inner apical 

 angle ; intermediate femora armed with a broad triangular 

 tooth at the apex beneath. 



Hub. Ceylon, Kandy. 



Mr. Bryant's collection contains four males and one female 

 of this species. It may be known by the broadly rufescent 

 sides of the elytra, the very long- antennae and legs, the flavo- 

 testaceous tarsi, and the extraordinary form of the head in 

 the i$ . The antennas have joint 3 a little longer than 2 

 and much shorter than 4, 4-10 being subequal in length. 

 The <$ cephalic armature was overlooked by Pic. X. plani- 

 pennis, Motsch., if it has been rightly identified by me, is a 

 very different insect. 



Xyloi >hilus den tatifemur. 

 Hylophilus de.ntatifemur, Pic, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, pp. 272, 279. 



<$ . Anterior tibiae armed with a sharp triangular tooth at 

 the middle within and also feebly mucronate at the inner 

 apical angle ; intermediate femora narrowly lamellate at the 

 apex beneath and armed with a slender sharp tooth before 

 the tip ; [posterior legs wanting]. 



Hob. Ceylon, Kandy. 



The unique example described is incorrectly stated to have 

 the anterior (instead of the posterior) legs missing : the cha- 

 racters given for the other legs are therefore misapplied by 

 the author. The antennae are long and comparatively stout, 

 and have the joints 3-10 subequal in length, 2 being much 

 shorter. 



Xylophilus planipennis. 

 Euglenus planipennis, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1863, i. p. 518. 



Elongate, shining ; piceous or fuscous, the palpi, the base 

 and tip of the antennae, the tarsi, the intermediate tibiae at 

 the apex, and sometimes the anterior femora and tibiae also, 

 testaceous or flavo-testaceous, the humeri usually with a 

 reddish spot ; clothed with an extremely fine, adpressed, 

 greyish pubescence, giving a dull leaden appearance to the 

 surface ; the head and prothorax densely, finely, the elytra a 

 little more diffusely, punctate. Head a little broader than 

 the prothorax, transverse, rather convex, obliquely narrowed 

 behind the eyes, the latter large and separated by about the 

 width of one of them ; antennae slender, moderately long in 

 J , shorter in ? , joint 2 short, oblique, 3-6 subequal in 

 length, each about twice as long as 2 in $ , 7-10 gradually 

 decreasing in length, 4-10 feebly subserrate, 11 ovate and 



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