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8. Xylophilus melanotus, n. sp. 



$. Moderately elongate, broad, robust, shining; nigro-piceous, 

 the mouth-parts, palpi, the anterior legs in great part, and the 

 intermediate and posterior legs with the tarsi and the bases of the 

 femora, testaceous or rufo -testaceous ; head and prothorax closely, 

 finely, the elytra a little more coarsely, punctate; clothed with 

 long, fine, decumbent, cinereous pubescence. Head short, broad, 

 narrowly, subangularly extended on each side behind the eyes, the 

 latter large, deeply emarginate, and separated by about half their 

 own width ; antennae rather short, moderately stout, joint 2 short, 

 3 a little longer, 3-10 very gradually decreasing in length, 8-10 

 transverse, 11 acuminate-ovate. Prothorax convex, transversely- 

 subquadrate, obliquely narrowed in front, narrower than the head, 

 unimpressed. Elytra moderately long, much wider than the head, 

 subparallel in their basal half, feebly, transversely depressed below 

 the base. Legs long, the posterior pair with the femora stout, 

 clavate, the tibiae rather broad, and the basal joint of the tarsi 

 arcuate. 



Length 21, breadth l^ 1 ,, mm. 



Hob. Assam, Patkai Mts. (Doherty). 



One specimen. This insect approaches X. arthriticus, 

 from the same locality, the male only of which is known, 

 but differs from it, apart from the shorter antennae, in 

 having the anterior legs almost entirely testaceous, the basal 

 joint of the posterior tarsi strongly curved, and the elytra 

 less coarsely punctate, without the deep oblique depression 

 below the base. Compared with the allied X. axillaris 

 ($), also from the same locality, it is more elongate, the 

 legs and antennae are longer, the posterior femora are more 

 strongly clavate, the posterior tibiae are broader, and the 

 elytra want the humeral spot. 



9. Xylophilus patkainus, n. sp. 



<$. Moderately elongate, narrow, robust, shining ; piceous, the 

 head black, the antennae ferruginous at the tip, the palpi and tarsi 

 testaceous, the anterior femora and tibiae, and the intermediate 

 femora at the base, rufo-piceous ; closely, rather finely punctate, 

 the punctures very little coarser on the elytra ; clothed with 

 moderately long, greyish pubescence. Head large, broad, narrowly 

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

 emarginate, and separated by about half their own width ; antennae 

 stout, short, joint 2 shorter than 3, 3-7 subquadrate, about equal, 



