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35. Xylophilus uncifer, n. sp. (Plate II, fig. 19, 

 intermediate leg, <^.) 



<?. Oblong, ' shining ; ruf o-testaceous, the eyes black, the head, 

 and the posterior femora near the apex, piceous ; finely, the elytra 

 more sparsely and distinctly, punctate, the punctures on the latter 

 becoming coarser towards the base ; finely pubescent. Head broad, 

 short, very narrowly, subangularly extended on each side behind 

 the eyes, the latter large, rather deeply emarginate, distant ; antennae 

 long, not very slender, joint 2 shorter than 3, 3-10 obconic, subequal, 

 11 much longer than 10, ovate. Prothorax small, transverse, 

 quadrate, obliquely narrowed in front, unimpressed. Elytra a little 

 wider than the head, subparallel in their basal half, the oblique 

 post-basal depression shallow. Legs rather short; intermediate 

 femora armed with a sharp, slender, curved tooth near the apex 

 beneath (fig. 19); posterior femora slightly thickened, feebly, sub- 

 angularly widened at about the apical third beneath. 



Length 1J, breadth § mm. 



Hab. India, Bombay. 



Two males, one in fragments, received by the Museum 

 in 1879. A minute, oblong, ruf o-testaceous form, with a 

 very broad, infuscate head, long antennae, fusco-annulate, 

 rather slender posterior femora, and the intermediate 

 femora sharply toothed near the tip, as in X. dentatifemur, 

 Pic, $, from Ceylon. X. rtifotestaceus and X. cajritalis, Pic, 

 from Mahe, Malabar, may be allied forms ; the descriptions, 

 however, are useless for the purposes of identification. It 

 is just possible that the <$ with dark head and large eyes 

 referred by Fairmaire to his X. rufinus, from Belgaum, 

 may be conspecific with X. uncifer (?). 



36. Xylophilus tumidiceps, n. sp. 



Oblong, dull (till denuded) ; rufo-testaceous, darker beneath, 

 the head and a broad space on the posterior femora before the 

 apex black; densely, minutely, the elytra more sparsely, punctu- 

 late, the interspaces on the latter alutaceous ; clothed with a 

 very fine, greyish, sericeous pubescence. Head strongly defiexed, 

 arcuato-gibbose at the base (as seen from behind) ; eyes very large, 

 occupying nearly the whole of the sides of the head, feebly emar- 

 ginate, somewhat distant; antennae slender, moderately long, 

 joints 2 and 3 rather short, subequal in length, 2 stouter than 3, 

 4 longer, 4-10 very gradually becoming wider, subequal in length, 



