28 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



29. Xylophilus curtus, n. sp. 



Short, shining (when denuded); brown, the head piceous, the 

 antennae obscure testaceous, the palpi and legs testaceous; densely, 

 finely punctate, finely pubescent. Head short, broad, the post- 

 ocular portion extremely narrow; eyes large, occupying nearly the 

 whole of the sides of the head, feebly emarginate, moderately dis- 

 tant; antennae extremely short, rather stout, widening a little 

 outwards, joints 2 and 3 subequal in length, 4-10 transverse and 

 gradually becoming wider, 11 stout, short-ovate. Pro thorax trans- 

 verse, not so wide as the head, obliquely narrowed in front, with a 

 sinuous, transverse groove before the base. Elytra short, a little 

 wider than the head, subparallel at the base, feebly transversely 

 depressed below the base. Legs short, slender [posterior pair 

 wanting]. 



Length H, breadth § mm. ($.) 



Hab. Assam, Patkai Mts. (Doherty). 



One specimen, somewhat crushed. A minute brown 

 insect, with the antennae and legs paler and the head 

 piceous, the antennae extremely short and comparatively 

 stout, the eyes large, the elytra short and densely punctate. 

 An isolated form. 



30. Xylophilus holosericeus, n. sp. 



Elongate-oval, robust, shining (when denuded) ; fusco-ferruginous, 

 the head piceous, the legs ferruginous ; densely, finely, the elytra 

 more coarsely and diffusely, subuniformly punctate ; clothed with a 

 fine, greyish, sericeous pubescence. Head short, moderately broad, 

 arcuately gibbose at the base (as seen from behind), very narrowly 

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

 emarginate, and separated by rather more than half their own 

 width; antennae moderately stout, joint 2 short, 3 nearly twice as 

 long as 2, 3-8 subequal, 9 and 10 a little shorter and wider, 11 ovate, 

 obliquely acuminate. Prothorax narrower than the head, slightly 

 broader than long, rounded-subquadrate, moderately convex, unim- 

 pressed. Elytra long, much wider than the head, gradually widened 

 to the middle and narrowed thence to the apex, the oblique intra- 

 humeral depression moderately deep. Legs long ; posterior femora 

 very little thicker than the others, feebly, subangularly dilated at 

 a little beyond the middle beneath. 



Length (with head denexed) 3, breadth 1|- mm. ($?.) 



Hab. India, Kangra Valley, Punjab, alt. 4500 ft. 

 (Dudgeon). 



