6 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



1. Euxylophilus principalis. (Plate I, figs. 4, $; ia, 

 hind leg, $.) 



$. Euxylophilus principalis, Champ., loc. cit. p. 216. 



$. Antennae with the serrated joints 5-10 less widened and more 

 strongly serrate than in $ ; the short anterior tibiae slightly curved, 

 unarmed at the tip (as in $) ; basal joint of anterior tarsi thickened ; 

 posterior tibiae armed with a short curved spur at the inner apical 

 angle ; basal joint of posterior tarsi more strongly curved than in $. 



Hab. Ceylon (Lewis, in Mus. Brit., $, type; Thwaites, 

 in Mus. Oxon., £). 



Since the description of E. principalis was published, 

 a <$ has been detected in the Oxford Museum, showing that 

 the type was a ^. It is considerably smaller than the 

 latter, and has the testaceous markings on the elytra more 

 extended. The apical armature of the tibiae in the $ of 

 this insect is transferred to the posterior pair, and the 

 anterior pair are feebly developed, the spur, when 

 present in the <$, arising from the anterior tibiae in all the 

 other species of the group known to me. The terminal 

 dorsal segment of the abdomen is not covered by the 

 elytra in either sex. The type is figured, also the hind 

 leg of the $. 



Xylophilus, Latr. 



Asiatic Species* 



1. Xylophilus podagricus, n. sp. (Plate I, fig. 5, £.) 



<$. Moderately elongate, rather broad, shining; nigro-piceous or 

 piceous, the palpi, prothorax, elytral humeri, anterior legs, inter- 

 mediate and posterior tarsi, and the intermediate femora and tibiae 

 in part, testaceous, the antennae infuscate, with the joints 9-11 

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

 more coarsely, punctate; clothed with long, cinereous pubescence. 

 Head short, narrowly, subangularly extended on each side behind 

 the eyes, the latter very large, deeply emarginate, and subapproxi- 

 mate in front ; antennae long, moderately stout, joint 1 curved, about 

 as long as 2 and 3 united, 3 short, 4 about twice as long as 3, 4-10 

 subcylindrical, gradually decreasing in length, 11 as long as 9 and 

 10 together, stout, obliquely acuminate. Prothorax rather small, 

 transversely subquadrate, obliquely narrowed anteriorly, the disc 



* Those from China are placed under a separate heading. 



