50 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall). 



One specimen, captured in April 1900. This species 

 could perhaps be referred to the section Olotelus, Muls. ; 

 it is closely related to the widely distributed X. pallescens, 

 Woll. (the type of which was from Madeira) ; but differs 

 from that insect in its much larger size, broader, more 

 convex, oval shape, relatively wider prothorax, etc. 



South American Species. 



60. Xylophilus ingens, n. sp. (Plate II, fig. 27, 

 posterior leg, $.) 



Elongate, broad, robust, dull (till denuded) ; ferruginous or obscure 

 ferruginous, the eyes black, the head in part, a broad space down 

 the middle of the prothorax, the antennae towards the tip, and the 

 posterior femora and tibiae in part in $, piceous, the elytra reddish- 

 brown, with an indication of a common v-shaped dark mark before 

 the apex (in $); densely, finely, the elytra more coarsely, punctate; 

 closely pubescent, the pubescence (in $) condensed into a common 

 triangular patch within the v-shaped subapical mark. Head short, 

 broad, convex; eyes large, very deeply emarginate, not nearly 

 reaching the base of the head, separated by less than half their own 

 width in both sexes; antennae (<$) very stout, moderately long, joint 

 2 a little shorter than 3, 3-10 rapidly widening, 3-6 about as long 

 as broad, 7-10 transverse [11 wanting]. Prothorax much narrower 

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

 unimpressed. Elytra broad, long, subparallel, flattened on the disc, 

 rounded at the tip, obliquely compressed on each side below the 

 humeri and with a deep oblique depression on the disc anteriorly. 

 Legs long, stout, more slender in $; intermediate tibiae slightly 

 curved ; posterior femora (J 1 ) moderately incrassate, simple ; pos- 

 terior tibiae straight, armed at the apex above with a long, stout, 

 pallid spine in <$ (fig. 27), and with a smaller slender spine in $;* 

 basal joint of posterior tarsi slightly curved. 

 Length 3£-3|, breadth 1J-1J mm. (<J$) 



Hob. Brazil, Santa Catharina (Fry). 



One pair, the $ in bad condition and wanting joints 

 5-11 of the antennae. Near X. lacertosus, Ch., from 

 Guatemala, but with very differently formed legs in the 

 <§. The stout spine at the apex of the <$ posterior tibiae is 



* The female of the allied A", mexicanas, Ch. (found by Truqui), 

 has a similar spine at the apex of the posterior tibiae. 



