34 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



One male. This insect has the elytra coloured and 

 shaped as in X. bryanti, Pic, from Ceylon, but the head 

 and prothorax are narrow and rufous in colour; the eyes 

 are smaller and do not nearly reach the base of the head ; 

 the antennae are black, and stouter, and have a minute 

 third joint, as in X. subcrassicomis, Pic, which is also 

 from Ceylon. The very differently coloured X. andrewesi, 

 from the Nilgiri Hills, has similar antennae, but in that 

 species the head is broader, the prothorax shorter, the 

 elytra coarsely punctate, etc. 



38. Xylophilus andrewesi, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, robust, shining; nigro-piceous, the antennae 

 at the tip and a transverse post-humeral patch on the elytra ferru- 

 ginous, the tarsi and palpi, the anterior and intermediate femora 

 and coxae, and the tibiae at their base, testaceous ; the head and 

 prothorax densely, finely, the elytra more coarsely and diffusely, 

 punctate; closely, finely pubescent. Head rather small, greatly 

 developed behind the eyes, the latter small, feebly emarginate, 

 distant; antennae rather short, joints 2 and 3 short, small, 4-10 

 longer, stouter, subtriangular, about as broad as long, 11 acuminate- 

 ovate. Prothorax narrower than the head, broader than long, 

 quadrate, the sides abruptly, obliquely convergent in front, the 

 disc with two shallow confluent foveae before the base. Elytra 

 moderately long, more than twice the width of the prothorax, 

 subparallel in their basal half, with a deep, oblique, post-humeral 

 depression. Legs long; posterior femora moderately incrassate; 

 posterior tibiae somewhat widened. 



Length 2\, breadth (elytra) 1 mm. ($?.) 



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



One specimen. Recognisable by the relatively narrow 

 head and prothorax, the broad, subparallel, rather long, 

 faintly rufo-maculate elytra, the small third joint of the 

 antennae, and the comparatively small eyes, the head 

 being developed behind them much as in X. subcrassicomis, 

 Pic. X. andrewesi approaches X. taprobanus, Ch., from 

 Ceylon, from which it differs in the shorter antennae, the 

 narrower prothorax, the testaceous intermediate femora, 

 etc. The stouter antennae, longer legs, more elongate, 

 differently coloured elytra, etc., separate the present 

 species from X. subcrassicomis. 



