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on the elytra, connected along the suture with a broad median 

 fascia, nigro-piceous. 



Xylophilus bryanti. 

 Hylophilus bryanti, Pic, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, pp. 277, 280. 



Hab. Ceylon, Kandy. 



Tliere are rive examples of this species in Mr. Bryant's 

 collection, two of which may be males : they have the 

 posterior legs stouter and the antennas a little longer than in 

 the others. A small, robust form, black, with a large trans- 

 verse humeral patch on the elytra, and the apex, rufescent, 

 the antennas (the base excepted), palpi, anterior legs in great 

 part, and the intermediate and posterior tarsi, testaceous, the 

 posterior femora strongly clavate, the antennal joints 3-10 

 subequal in length. 



Xylophilus concolor, sp. n. 



? . Rather broad, short, shining, rufo-testaceous, the eyes 

 black, the legs testaceous ; clothed with fine yellowish pubes- 

 cence ; the head and prothorax densely, finely, the elytra 

 more coarsely, punctate. Head broad, short, very narrowly 

 extended behind the eyes, the latter large and well separated ; 

 antennas moderately long, stout, joints 3-7 about as long at 

 broad, 8-10 transverse, 2 a little shorter than 3, 11 ovate. 

 Prothorax strongly transverse, as wide as the post-ocular 

 portion of the head, the sides subparallel at the base. Elytra 

 rather convex, broad, parallel at the base, unimpressed on the 

 disc. Legs moderately long ; posterior femora comparatively 

 slender, very little stouter than the intermediate pair. 



Length If mm. 



Hab. Ceylon, Kandy. 



One specimen, ? , captured by Mr. Bryant in June, 1908. 

 This insect was found placed in his collection under X. cey- 

 lonicus, Pic, from the ? of which it differs in its broader 

 prothorax, shorter, more densely punctate elytra, more 

 approximate eyes, and slender posterior femora. 



Xylophilus subcrassicorn is. 

 Hylophilus subcrassicornis, Pic, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, pp. 278, 280. 



3 . Anterior tarsi thickened ; antennas much more elongate 

 than in ? , joints 4-10 longer than broad. 



Hab. Ceylon, Kandy. 



Three specimens of this species are before me — one male 

 and two females, one of the latter darker than the other. Less 

 robust than X. bryanti; the base of the elytra broadly, and 



