New or litlle-knoiun Xylophilidae. 9 



ferruginous, shining, sparsely pilose body, the stout, 

 infuscate antennae, the partly infuscate legs, and the 

 sexual peculiarities of the '<$, sufficiently distinguish 

 X. piilriiKi/Hs. The pad on the posterior femora is con- 

 spicuous. 



4. Xylophilus cylindricornis, n. sp. (Plate I, fig. 7, 



anterior leg, <$.) 



<J. Moderately elongate, broad, robust, Bhining; nigro-piceous, 

 the palpi, mouth-parts, tip of antennae, prothorax, base of elytra, 

 under surface in part, anterior Legs, Intermediate and posterior 

 femora at base, and the tarsi of the same legs in part, ferruginous; 

 head and prothorax closely, finely, the elytra a little more coarsely, 

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

 the antennae closely set with short, stiff, bristly hairs. Head short. 

 broad, narrowly, subangularly extended on each side behind the 

 eyes, the latter extremely large, feebly emarginate, and separated 

 by about half their width; antennae long, very stout, joint '2 short, 

 3 twice as long as 2, 3-10 subcylindrical. subequal in length, 1 1 large, 

 about as long as 9 and 10 united, strongly acuminate. Prothorax 

 convex, transverse, subquadrate, obliquely narrowed anteriorly, 

 much narrower than the head, unimpressed. Elytra broad, rather 

 short, parallel at the base, the oblique post-humeral depression deep. 

 Legs long; posterior femora strongly clavate, the others stout; 

 anterior tibiae much widened outwards, sinuous within, armed with 

 a stout curved spur at the apex, and also with a short triangular 

 tooth just before the tip beneath (tig. 7); tarsi rather stout, first 

 joint of posterior pair feebly curved, more than halt the Length of 

 the tibia. 



Length 3, breadth li mm. 



Hab. Assam Valley (Doherty). 



One male. In this insect the antennae are nearly as 

 stout as in the American X. forticornis and its allies. The 

 ferruginous prothorax and base of elytra, the black an- 

 tennae, the strongly clavate posterior femora, and the 

 peculiarly shaped anterior tibiae {<$) are its chief char- 

 acters. The general coloration is not unlike that of the 

 cosmopolitan Anthicus floralis. 



5. Xylophilus tavoyanus, n. sp. (Plate I, fig. 8, 



anterior leg, <$.) 

 £. Moderately elongate, robust. Bhining; oigro-piceous, the 

 palpi, base of elytra, tip of abdomen, anterior Legs (the knees 



