New or little-known Xylophilidae. 19 



equal in width; the prothorax short and trapezoidal, with 

 the anterior angles subdentiform and the disc compara- 

 tively smooth ; the elytra broad ; the third and fourth joints 

 of the antennae slender; and the body wholly testaceous, 

 the eyes excepted. The antennae are very different from 

 those of X. rufiHus, being more like those of X. orientalis, 

 Ch.* The puncturing of the surface also is very much finer 

 and more scattered than in X. rufinus, and the eyes are 

 larger and entire. 



18. Xylophilus nilgiriensis, n. sp. (Plate I, figs. 10, <$; 

 10a, anterior leg.) 



<J. Short, depressed, opaque ; rufo-testaceous or testaceous, the ely- 

 tra slightly iufuscate along the suture from a little below the base to 

 near the tip, the eyes black ; head and prothorax minutely, the elytra 

 more distinctly, punctate ; very finely sericeo-pubescent. Head short, 

 broad, very narrowly extended on each side behind the eyes, the 

 latter large, unemarginate, distant; antennae short, not very slender, 

 joints 2 and 4 rather stout, subequal, 3 narrower and scarcely 

 longer, 4-10 gradually becoming shorter, 8-10 transverse, 11 ovate. 

 Prothorax transverse, trapezoidal, the anterior angles somewhat 

 dentiform, the disc shallowly, obliquely bi-impressed before the 

 base. Elytra wider than the head, narrowing from about the basal 

 third, the post-basal depression oblique and rather broad. Legs 

 very slender, long; anterior tibiae slightly curved; anterior tarsi 

 with the basal joint much thickened, as broad as the tibiae (fig. 10a); 

 posterior femora incrassate, much stonier than the others. 



Length 1£, breadth 5 mm. 



Hab. India, Nilgiri Hills (H. L. Andrewes). 



Three males. A minute, delicate, pallid form, with 

 finely punctate surface, unemarginate 3 widely separated 

 eyes, long, slender legs, incrassate posterior femora, and a 

 greatly thickened basal joint to the anterior tarsi in <$, 

 much as in many Macratriae. The infuscation of t lie sut ore 

 may be due to discoloration. This species bears some 

 relationship to .V. scutatus, Ch., from Borneo,f which is 

 a much broader insect, with stouter posterior femora, a 

 larger head, non-unicoloroiis antennae, etc. 



* Ann. and Mag. Nat. II is). (S) xvi. j.. 223. 

 t Ent. Mo. Mag. Ii, |>. 284 



