the Xylopliilidse of Ceylon. 221 



depressed below the base, closely, rather coarsely punctate. 

 Legs long, slender ; posterior femora clavate ; posterior tibiae 

 flattened, and becoming gradually wider and curving outwards 

 towards the tip, obliquely truncated at the apex externally 

 and there furnished with a brush-like cluster of hairs. 



Length 2jV-2i mm. (£?). 



Hub. Ceylon, Dikoya, between 3800 and 4200 ft. (G. 

 Leiois). 



Two examples, found in Dec. 1881. They are no doubt 

 males, but the anterior tibiae and tarsi are simple, and the 

 antennae comparatively short. The brush of hairs at the outer 

 apical angle of the posterior tibiae is a peculiar character. 

 The insect cannot be the X. testaceipennis of Motschulsky. 



Xylophilus cribricollis. 



Hylophilus cribricollis, Pic, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., Jan. 1912, p. 48 ; Ann. 



Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, p. 286 (April, 1913). 

 Hylophilus mucronatus, Pic, Ann. Soc. Er. 1912, pp. 275, 280. 



cJ . Anterior tibiae abruptly bent inwards at about the 

 apical third and strongly mucronate at the inner apical 

 angle. 



Hob. Ceylon, Kandy. [W. Australia *, ? in error.] 

 The unique types of these insects, g $ , are absolutely 

 identical, and some mistake must evidently have been made 

 in attaching the locality-labels to one of them. Mr. Bryant 

 believes that Ceylon is probably correct. These specimens 

 have the head piceous, the antennae fusco-testaceous, the 

 prothorax rufescent, and the elytra and legs (the partly in- 

 fuscate posterior femora and tibiso excepted) testaceous ; 

 the antennal joints 3-10 rather stout and subequal in longth, 

 and 11 (wanting in H. mucronatus) as long as 9 and 10 

 united and strongly acuminate ; the posterior femora strongly 

 clavate and simple ; the posterior tibiae flattened and some- 

 what dilated; and the basal joint of the posterior tarsi 

 slightly curved. 



Xylophilus nigronotatus. 



Hylophilus nigronotatus, Pic, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, pp. 276, 280 

 (excl. var.). 



S . Anterior tibiae curved ; posterior femora strongly 

 clavate, armed with a sharp tooth near the apex and set with 

 a row of short, scattered, bristly hairs along their lower face. 



Hob. Ceylon, Kandy. 



The above-mentioned characters are taken from the unique 



* H. major, Pio [ $ ], from Illawarra, N.S. W. = X (Anthicus) abnormis, 

 King [ 6 ], a specimen of which was given me long ago by Mr, A. M. Lea 



