New or Wile-known Xylophilidae. 41 



gradually decreasing in length, 3-7 subcylindrical, 8-10 about as 

 broad as long, 11 nearly as long as 9 and 10 united, strongly, 

 obliquely acuminate. Prothorax convex, narrower than the head, 

 the sides gradually converging from the rather prominent hind 

 angles, the disc unimpressed. Elytra oblong, wider than the bead, 

 very gradually narrowed from a little below the base, and with an 

 almost obsolete, oblique, intra-humeral depression. Legs long; 

 anterior and intermediate tibiae rounded externally, bowed inwards 

 from about the middle, appearing sinuous within, tin- anterior 

 pair bisetose at the tip; posterior femora stout (fig. 23), curved, 

 set with a double row of stiff setae along their flattened lower face, 

 and armed with a sharp tooth at the upper apical angle; basal 

 joint of intermediate and posterior tarsi rather stout, densely 

 pubescent beneath. 



Length If, breadth £ mm. 



II ah. China, Hong Kong {J. J. Walker). 



Described from a single male sent me in 1893. A 

 rather worn, imperfect example of the same sex, more 

 robust than the type, captured in Nov. 1853, is contained 

 in the British Museum collection : this insect is labelled 

 " China, Bowring." A small oblong, pallid form, with a 

 comparatively smooth, nigro-piceous head, stout, sub- 

 cylindrical antennae, bowed anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae, and a comb-like armature to the stout posterior 

 femora, in the <$. X. jpectinatus is related to X. nigro- 

 notatus, Pic, from Ceylon, the $ of which has somewhat 

 similarly armed posterior femora, differing from it in the 

 shorter antennae, the much smoother, shining, blackish 

 head, the immaculate elytra, the form of the legs, etc. 



47. Xylophilus spinimanus, n. sp. (Plate 11. fig. 24, 

 anterior Leg, j\) 



Oblong, shining, testaceous, the eyes black: densely, finely, the 

 elytra more coarsely, punctate, clothed with rather long pallid hairs. 

 Head short, broad, very narrowly extended on each side behind 

 the eyes, the latter large, emarginate, more approximate in o 

 than in ?; antennae moderately long, slightly shorter in ?, rather 

 stout, joint 2 very little shorter than 3, 3-10 subcylindrical, 

 gradually decreasing in length, 8-10 transverse in ,11 as long as 

 9 and 10 united, strongly, obliquely aeuminate. Prothorax trans- 

 verse, subquad rate, narrower than the head, obsolete]}' canaliculate 

 behind. Elytra oblong, Bubparallel, very little wider than the 



