



TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



LONDON 



For the Year 191G. 



I. On new or little-known Xylopkilidae. By George 

 Charles Champion, F.Z.S. 



[Read November 3rd, 1915.] 



Plates I, II. 



This paper contains descriptions of the numerous unnamed 

 Xylopkilidae in the British Museum, some remarks on 

 various known species, and a few corrections in synonymy. 

 The Asiatic forms * are mainly from the collections of 

 Doherty (two only of these having been previously de- 

 scribed) and Mr. Andrewes, supplemented by two recently 

 received from Bengal; those from South America arc 

 from various sources, some of them from the Fry collection. 

 So far as I am aware no Xylophilid has hitherto been 

 recorded from Siam, the Andaman Islands, or ( 'hina. Since 

 the publication of my monograph of the Central American 

 forms (1890-1893), supplemented subsequently by other 

 papers on certain Antillean, Australian and Japanese 

 members of the family, upwards of 200 Xylopkilidae have 

 been named by Pic. Extremely tew of these latter, 

 however, appear to be represented in tke collections before 

 me; but tkis is not surprising, taking into account tke 

 genera] rarity and restricted kabitat of tkese fragile insects, 



* Exclusive of those from Ceylon, Borneo and Penang enumerated 



by myself in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (S) xvi. pp. 216-226 (Sept. 

 L915), and Ent. Monthly -Man. li. w . i>7.s 288, 310 (Oct. and Nov. 

 1915), respectively. 



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