42 Mr. G C. Champion on 



head in q, with a long, oblique, intra-humeral depression. Legs 

 long; anterior tibiae (fig. 24) compressed, somewhat widened, 

 slightly curved outwards, and armed at the outer apical angle 

 with a long, stout, curved, outwardly projecting spur, which 

 reaches as far as the apex of the first tarsal joint ; posterior femora 

 strongly clavate, arcuate inflated in front; posterior tibiae com- 

 pressed, rather stout, almost straight; basal joint of posterior 

 tarsi curved. 



Length If— li, breadth f— | mm. (o?-) 



Hab. China, Hong Kong (Mus. Brit.). 



One male and two females, captured at various dates 

 between 1852 and 1854. The male is extremely like 

 X. ceylonicus, 'Pic, from Kandy, but it has the elytra 

 subparallel, the antennae not so stout, the anterior tibiae 

 less widened and with the long apical spur projecting 

 straight outwards as in X. cylindricornis (supra), instead of 

 being abruptly bent inwards from near the base as in X. 

 ceylonicus,* and the posterior femora more inflated on 

 the anterior aspect. The females have the elytra much 

 less narrowed posteriorly than in the specimen of the same 

 sex doubtfully referred to X. ceylonicus by Pic. Com- 

 pared with the similarly-coloured X. pectinatus, the male 

 has the eyes less approximate, the second antennal joint 

 longer, the prothorax subquadrate, and the legs very 

 differently formed. 



48. Xylophilus parvidens, n. sp. 



(J. Moderately elongate, shining, finely pubescent, rufo-testaceous, 

 the eyes black; densely, finely, the elytra more coarsely, punctate. 

 Head transverse, scarcely wider than the prothorax, extended on 

 each side behind the eyes, the latter rather small, deeply emar- 

 ginate; antennae slender, moderately long, joints 2 and 3 sub- 

 equal in length, 4 and 5 a little longer and stouter [6-11 broken off]. 

 Prothorax rather convex, transversely subquach'ate, abruptly 

 narrowed in front, the disc obsoletely, transversely depressed 

 before the base. Elytra much wider than the head and prothorax, 

 moderately long, somewhat convex, slightly rounded at the sides, 

 transversely flattened below the base. Legs long, slender ; anterior 

 tibiae curved inwards at the apex, armed with a small triangular 

 tooth on the inner side beyond the middle, and mucronate at the 



* Cf. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xvi, p. 222. 



