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50. Xylophilus quadratipennis, n. sp. 



<J. Oblong, depressed, dull, finely pubescent; nigro-piceous, the 

 mouth-parts, front of the head, basal and apical margins of the 

 prothorax, tarsi, and anterior and intermediate femora and tibiae 

 in great part, testaceous ; the elytra testaceous, with a broad, 

 transverse, blackish-brown subapical fascia, not reaching the 

 suture and extending forwards on the disc and at the sides to near 

 the base ; the antennae piceous, with joints 1, 2, and 11 ferruginous ; 

 the entire upper surface densely, finely punctate. Head very large, 

 broad; eyes extremely large, narrowly separated, deeply emar- 

 ginate, and occupying the whole of the sides of the head ; antennae 

 long, very stout, joint 2 short, 3 smaller than 2, 4-10 much thickened, 

 gradually decreasing in length, 4-7 about as long as broad, 8-10 

 transverse, 11 ovate. Prothorax small, short, sub quadrate, 

 abruptly narrowed in front, with a deep, transverse depression 

 before the base. Elytra broad, flattened, oblongo-subquadrate, 

 the oblique intra-humeral depression deep and extending down- 

 wards to the middle. Legs rather short, slender ; posterior femora 

 stout, strongly clavate. 



Length (with head extended) 1^, breadth A mm. 



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



One specimen, received in 1863. It is assumed to be 

 a male, on account of the greatly developed head, sub- 

 approximate eyes, and the very stout, long antennae. 

 Amongst the species described in the present paper, 

 X. quadratipennis comes nearest X. megalocephalus, from 

 Larat, which has very differently formed elytra and 

 antennae. The Japanese X. globulus, Mars., is not unlike 

 X. quadratipennis, the latter having much longer and 

 stouter antennae, a much smaller prothorax, subparallel 

 elytra, etc. 



Australasian Species. 

 51. Xylophilus abnormis. 



Anthicus abnormis, King, Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W. ii, 



p. 24 (1873). 

 Syzeton laetus, Blackb., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. xiv, 2, 



p. 337 (1891). 

 c£. Hylophilus major, Pic, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, p. 48 ; 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, p. 286. 



Hab. Australia, New South Wales, Victoria. 



