224 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



transverse, darker fasciae, which are sometimes indistinct or 

 obsolete, the eyes black, the posterior femora slightly infuscate 

 towards the apex ; the upper surface densely, minutely, the 

 elytra a little more coarsely, punctate, very finely pubescent. 

 Head short, broad, the eyes very large, separated by about 

 the width of one of them and occupying nearly the whole o£ 

 the side of the head ; antennae slender, slightly widened out- 

 wards, moderately long, joint 3 small, about half the length 

 of 4, 4-10 subequal in length, 11 acuminate-ovate. Pro- 

 thorax transversely-subquadrate, obliquely narrowed in front, 

 the disc with a transverse impression before the base. 

 Elytra short, about twice as wide as the prothorax, sub- 

 parallel in their basal half, the post-basal depression trans- 

 verse and rather deep. Legs slender, the anterior tibiae in 

 J angularly dilated towards the apex within, the posterior 

 femora moderately incrassate, simple. 

 Length l|-2 mm. (c? ? )• 



Hab. India, Calcutta {ex coll. Pascoe) [type] ; Ceylon 

 [Tliwaites, in Mus. Brit.). 



One male from Calcutta, three females from Ceylon, almost 

 certainly belonging to the same species. Extremely like 

 X. dikoyanus, but with a small third joint to the antennae 

 and the eyes not quite so large ; the elytra in the $ type 

 distinctly trifasciate (the second fascia placed just beyond 

 the middle) ; the antennae of c? much shorter, and the arma- 

 ture of the anterior tibiae different in this sex. X. rufinus, 

 Fairm., from Belgaum, must be an allied form : a co-type of 

 the supposed ? (which is really a $ with a minute tooth on 

 the anterior tibiae), lent me by Mr. Andrewes, is very like 

 X. orientalisy but it has smaller eyes, stouter antennae, and 

 shorter unicolorous elytra. X. rufotestaceus, Pic, from 

 Malabar, is unrecognizable from description. The Thwaites 

 specimens were received by the Museum in 1867. 



Xylophilus diversiceps, 



Hylophilus nigronotatus, var. diversiceps, Pic, A.nn. Soc, Eut. Fr. 1912, 

 pp. 276, 280. 



Hab. Ceylon, Kandy. 



The type of this form is almost certainly a ? , and the 

 differences between it and X. nigronotatus, $ , show that they 

 cannot be the sexual complements of the same species: the 

 prothorax is more transverse, being nearly as wide as the 

 head ; the elytra are much broader ; the antennae are com- 

 paratively short and slender ; the legs are shorter ; and the 

 posterior femora are but little thickened. The insect is testae 

 ceous, with the head, and a large triangular scutellar patch 



