220 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



the elytra with a large, faint, indeterminate, humeral patch 

 extending downwards along the sides, and an almost obsolete 

 patch on the disc before the apex, the base and extreme tip of 

 the antenna?, palpi, tarsi, anterior femora, and the base of the 

 posterior tibial, testaceous or reddish; clothed with an extremely 

 fine, adpressed, brownish-grey pubescence. Head convex, 

 gradually narrowed behind the rather small eyes, densely, 

 finely punctate; antennas moderately long, slightly widened 

 outwards, joint 3 smaller than 2, triangular, 4-10 long, sub- 

 equal in length, subserrate, 11 stout, obliquely acuminate. 

 Prothorax subquadrate, sinuate at the base, obliquely nar- 

 rowed in front, densely, finely punctate, the disc with shallow 

 arcuate depression behind. Elytra moderately long, nearly 

 twice as wide as the prothorax, subparallel to about the middle, 

 closely, somewhat coarsely punctate, transversely depressed 

 below the base. Legs long, the posterior femora moderately 

 thickened, simple. 



Length 2 mm. (<??). 



Hob. Ceylon, Bogawantalawa, between 4900 and 5200 ft. 

 (G. Lewis). 



One specimen, found March 8th, 1882. Less elongate 

 than X. planipennisj the antenna? with joint 3 very small, 

 4-10 long, subequal, and 11 thickened, the elytra much 

 shorter, more coarsely punctate, and transversely depressed 

 below the base. Larger, more robust, and with much 

 longer limbs than X. subcrassicornis, Pic, from Kandy, which 

 also has a minute third antennal joint. X. rvfipes, Motsch., 

 from Nuwara Elia, may be an allied form (?) ; it is described 

 as nigro-fuscous, with the antenna? and legs rufo-testaceous, 

 the elytra fusco-testaceous, the length § lin. The type of 

 X. taprobanus is probably a male, to judge from the length 

 of the antenna?, but the anterior tibia? and posterior femora 

 are simple. 



Xylophilus scoparius, sp. n. 



Elongate, shining ; testaceous, the head, the elytral suture 

 very narrowly, the under surface, the posterior femora (except 

 at the base), and in one specimen the apices of the inter- 

 mediate femora also, black or piceous, the prothorax reddish ; 

 clothed with rather long, pallid pubescence. Head transverse, 

 densely, finely panctate, narrowly extended on each side 

 behind the very large eyes ; antenna? short, ratiier slender, 

 slightly widened outwards, joints 3-10 subequal in length, 

 11 stout, obliquely acuminate. Prothorax rounded-sub- 

 quadrate, narrower than the head, densely, finely punctate, 

 without definite depression on the disc. Elytra long, sub- 

 parallel, flattened, much wider than the head, obliquely 



