New or Uttle-known Xylophilidae. 27 



Hob. Tenasserim, Tavoy (Doherty). 



One male. The extraordinary form of the anterior tibiae 

 of this insect is unique, I believe, amongst the known 

 Xylophilids. The basal impression of the prothorax is 

 unusually deep, and bifoveate within. The dull, finely 

 punctured surface, the cmadrimaculate elytra, and the 

 pruinose vestiture distinguish the present species from the 

 allied Indian forms known to me. The head is shaped as 

 in X. rufonotatus. 



28. Xylophilus andamanensis, n. sp. (Plate I, fig. 15, <$.) 



Moderately elongate, shining (when denuded); testaceous or 

 rufo-testaceous, the eyes black, the elytra with a common, broad, 

 angulate fascia at about one-third from the base and a narrower 

 one beyond the middle, the anterior one extending forwards along 

 the suture and outer margin, piceous or nigro-piceous, the posterior 

 femora infuscate in one example; head and prothorax closely, finely, 

 the elytra more coarsely, punctured; clothed with very fine sericeous 

 pubescence. Head short, broad ; eyes very large, feebly emarginate, 

 occupying almost the whole of the sides of the head, and separated 

 by about half their own width; antennae slender, moderately 

 long, similar in the two sexes, joints 2 and 3 short, equal, 4 

 twice as long as 3, 4—10 obconic, subequal in length, 11 much 

 stouter than 10, acuminate-ovate. Prothorax transverse, rather 

 narrow, rounded at the sides anteriorly, the disc with a shallow- 

 transverse depression before the base. Elytra long, subparallcl in 

 their basal half, a little wider than the head, somewhat convex, 

 flattened towards the base, without definite, depression, ix-gs long, 

 slender, the posterior femora a little stouter than the others, the 

 basal joint of the posterior tarsi distinctly curved; anterior tibiae 

 of J curved towards the apex, and feebly mucronate at the inner 

 apical allele. 



Length 2|-2£, breadth I mm. (i$.) 



Hab. Andaman Islands (Capt. Wimberley). 



One pair, found placed amongst the Anthicids in the 

 Fry collection. Recognisable by its elongate shape, the 

 angnlato-bifasciate elytra, the rather slender, pallid an- 

 tennae, with short second and third joints, the large eyes, 

 the moderately thickened posterior femora, and the feebly 

 curved anterior tibiae of the male. The female is larger 

 than the male. 



