Neiv or little-known Xylopkilidae. 43 



inner apical angle; posterior femora compressed, strongly clavate; 

 basal joint of posterior tarsi almost straight. 

 Length -, breadth 3 mm. 



Hah. China, near Entrance Island, Chusan Archipelago 

 (J. J. Walker). 



One male, sent to the British Museum in 1893. A rufo- 

 testaceous form, with comparatively small eyes, slender 

 antennae, with small third joint, rather convex, oblong 

 elytra, clavate posterior femora, and peculiarly armed 

 anterior tibiae in <$. X. jjarvidens might easily be mis- 

 taken for an Anthinis. if the tarsi and ventral surface weir 

 not examined. A broken $ from the Chusan Islands, sent 

 me by the same collector, may belong here; but it has 

 the head less transverse and the posterior femora infuscate 

 to near the apex. 



49. Xylophilus chinensis, n. sp. 



Oblong, shining (when denuded), finely pubescent; ferruginous, 



the elytra, joints 1-4 of the antennae, and the legs (the basally 

 infuscate posterior femora excepted) testaceous, the rest of the 

 antennae slightly infuscate; densely, finely, the elytra a little 

 more coarsely, punctate. Head short, broad, subangularly ex- 

 tended on each side behind the eyes, the latter small, deeply cmar- 

 ginate; antennae slender, moderately long, joint 3 small, narrow, 

 scarcely so long as 2, 4-10 very gradually decreasing in length, 

 10 transverse, 11 acuminate-ovate. Prothorax nearly as wide 

 as the head, transversely quadrate, abruptly narrowed in front, 

 with a faint transverse depression before the base, the anterior 

 angles tumid and subdentiform. Elytra oblong, broad, much 

 wider than the head, slightly rounded at the sides, flattened on the 

 disc below the base. Legs lon<_ r , slender; posterior femora stout, 

 clavate; posterior tibiae straight. 

 Length li, breadth g mm. ($?.) 



Hab. China (Mus. Brit., ex roll. Bowring). 



One specimen, acquired in 1863. This insect is very like 

 X. mfinus, Fairm., from Belgaum (as here restricted), 

 differing from it in the broader head, the sides of which 

 are subparallel behind the eves, the more slender, out- 

 wardly infuscate antennae, and the sharper anterior 

 angles of the prothorax, the head and prothorax, too, are 

 more densely punctate. The broad head also separates 

 X. chinensis from A r . parvidens. 



