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male, which is stated to have a " lamella beneath the 

 posterior femora/' the lamella in question being a clot of 

 gum hiding the true armature. The insect is testaceous, 

 with a triangular scutellar patch and a narrow common 

 median fascia piceous. The antennae are rather long and 

 stout, joints 3-10 subequal in length, and 11 about as long 

 as 9 and 10 united. The female of the so-called var. diversi- 

 ceps belongs to a different species. 



Xylophilus nigroj) ictus, sp. n. 



$ . Moderately elongate, narrow, rather convex, shining; 

 testaceous, the eyes black, the head, antennas, and posterior 

 femora and tibiae slightly infuscate, the elytra with tlie 

 suture very narrowly and a rather large spot on the disc 

 beyond the middle nigro-piceous ; clothed with rather long, 

 ■fine, pallid pubescence. Head transverse, broader than the 

 prothorax, densely, finely punctate, narrowly extended on 

 each side behind the eyes, the latter somewhat narrowly 

 separated; antennas moderately long, subfiliform, not very 

 slender, joints 3-10 subequal in length, subcylindrical, 11 

 rather stout, obliquely acuminate. Prothorax transverse, 

 parallel-sided at the base, densely, finely punctate, with a 

 shallow, interrupted, arcuate depression on the disc behind. 

 Elytra moderately long, subpaiallel to about the middle, 

 much wider, and a little more coarsely punctured, than the 

 prothorax, the disc obliquely depressed anteriorly. Legs 

 long; anterior tibiae feebly sinuate within; intermediate 

 tibia? bowed, strongly bisinuate within; posterior femora 

 clavate, with a narrow, pallid, pad along their lower face, 

 bearing a row of short, scattered, bristly hairs, and armed 

 with a short tooth before the tip. 



Length 2 mm. 



Hab, Ceylon, Dikoya (G. Lewis). 



One specimen, captured on Dee. 12th, 1881. Very near 

 X. nigronotatus, Pic, from Kandy ; but more elongate and 

 with longer limbs, the elytra not so coarsely punctate and 

 each with a spot on the disc (instead of being fasciate), the 

 intermediate tibiae bowed and strongly bisinuate within in <£ , 

 the posterior femora in the same sex similarly armed, but 

 with a conspicuous, narrow, pallid pad along their lower 

 face. 



Xylophilus ceylonicus. 

 Hylophilus ceylonicus, Pic, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, pp. 275, 280. 



$ . Anterior tibiae widened and somewhat curved outwards, 

 and armed with a long, abruptly bent, inwardly-directed spur 



