New or Uttle-knoum Xyhphilidae. 45 



The additional synonymy of this species has already 

 been noted by me elsewhere [Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (8) -\vi. 1 1. 221]. Blackburn described both sexes, but the 

 type acquired by the British Museum is a $. This is one 

 of the two species (S. laetus and S. lateralis) he included 

 in his genus Syzeton (Xylophilus being unknown to him), 

 which do not differ structurally from many other Xylophili 

 from other parts of the world. King specially noted the 

 minute penultimate joint of the tarsi in his A. abnormis. 

 Pic's type of H. major is a large <£. 



52. Xylophilus undatus. 



Xylophilus fasciatus, Boh., Col. Res. Eugen. p. 107 (1858) 



(nee Melsh. 1846). 

 Xylophilus undatus, Gemm., Col. Hefte, vi, p. 123 (1870). 

 Syzeton blackburni, Lea, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.AV. (2) ix. 



p. 621 (1895). 

 Hylophilus walesianus, Pic. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, p. 48; 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912. p. 285. 



Hob. Australia. New South Wales. 



Pic's co-types of H. walesianus, two males, captured by 

 Mr. Bryant, agree exactly with Lea's description of the 

 same sex of his S. blackburni, the strongly curved posterior 

 femora being noted by each of them; Lea, however, 

 omitted to mention the sinuate inner margin of the 

 anterior tibiae, the apices of which are also armed with 

 a slender tooth. It is unusual to find a sexual modifica- 

 tion in all the legs, such as occurs in the J of the present 

 species. Boheman's name is preoccupied, and his type 

 was probably a female.* All three authors give Sydney 

 as locality. 



53. Xylophilus eucalypti. 



Xylophilus eucalypti, Lea. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxii. 

 p. 589 (1897). 



Hob. W. Australia. 



* A'. (Syzeton) lateralis, Blackb., type 9. is somewhat similar, but 

 it has differently funned antennae, and the black marking on the 

 elytra broader, the elytra themselves more coarsely and ma bo 

 closely punctate, and furnished with long, erect hairs amongsl the 

 conspicuous decumbenl pubescence. The specific name is pre- 

 occupied in the genus (Gredler, 1S(»<>) and is here changed \<> 

 vicluriensis. 



