8 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



Hab. Assam, Patkai Mts. (Doherty). 



One specimen. This species is related to X. -podagricus, 

 differing from it in the less curved intermediate and 

 posterior femora, the deeply, obliquely emarginate outer 

 edge of the still broader intermediate tibiae, the non- 

 dentate posterior femora, the broadly excavate ventral 

 surface, etc., of the male. X. oedipus, Pic, from the Island 

 of Banguey, near Borneo, seems to have similar tibiae in 

 the same sex, but it differs in various respects from X. 

 arthriticus. The Japanese X. distort us, Champ. (1890), 

 figured by Lewis in 1895, also approaches X. arthriticus. 



3. Xylophilus pulvinatus, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, rather broad, robust, shining; ferruginous, 

 the palpi and tarsi (the infuscate basal joint of the intermediate and 

 posterior pairs excepted) testaceous, the eyes, antennae (the base 

 and tip excepted), and femora and tibiae in part, nigro-piceous or 

 piceous; the head and prothorax closely, finely, the elytra more 

 ooarsely, punctate; clothed with rather long, pallid, decumbent 

 hairs. Head short, moderately broad, very narrowly, subangularly 

 extended on each side behind the eyes, the latter large, deeply 

 emarginate, and separated by about half their width ; antennae {<$) 

 stout, long, joint 2 short, half the length of 3, 3-10 subcylindrical, 

 almost equal in length, and gradually becoming slightly wider, 

 11 ovate, obliquely acuminate, (?) shorter, and with joint 3 less 

 than twice the length of 2. Prothorax large, convex, transversely 

 subquadrate, broader in $, obliquely narrowed in front, un- 

 impressed. Elytra much wider than the head, comparatively short, 

 narrowing from the basal third, with a deep, oblique depression on 

 the disc below the base. Legs long. $. Anterior tibiae slender, 

 almost straight, armed with a long, fine spur at the inner apical 

 angle; intermediate tibiae distinctly sinuate, slightly widened 

 outward ; posterior femora strongly clavate, furnished with a broad 

 spongy-pubescent pad along their lower face (appearing closely 

 ciliate as seen from above), the other femora rather slender; pos- 

 terior tibiae deeply sinuate, moderately broad; basal joint of 

 posterior tarsi arcuate. 



Length 2£-2£, breadth 1-1£ mm. (<? ?.) 



Hub. Siam, Renong [type, <$] ; Tenasserim, Tavoy [$]. 



Described from two specimens found by Doherty. A 

 broken third example ($?) from the Patkai Mts., Assam, 

 with a much broader head may also belong here. The 



