New or little-knovm Xylophilidae. 53 



transversely placed, subcontinent patches. The example 

 before me is without locality-label, but there can be little 

 doubt that it is from Brazil. The sexual characters were 

 not mentioned by Pic, and his types may be females. 



64. Xylophilus brasiliensis. 



Xylophilus ( '. Zonantes) brasiliensis, Pic, Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Belg. xlii. pp. 262, 265 (1898). 



$. Oblong, somewhat convex, very shining, clothed with long, 

 adpressed, pallid hairs; head, basal joint of antennae above, pro- 

 thorax, a large triangular patch on the outer part of each elytron 

 at about the middle (extending obliquely inwards to near the suture), 

 the posterior femora (except at the base), and the under surface 

 in great part, nigro-piceous or piceous, the rest of the antennae, 

 elytra, and legs, and the palpi, testaceous; closely, finely, the elytra 

 coarsely, punctate. Head short, broad, narrowly extended on each 

 side behind the eyes, the latter very large, emarginate, and somewhat 

 narrowly separated; antennae moderately long, rather stout, joint 

 3 a little longer than 2, 4- 10 very gradually decreasing in length, 

 10 transverse, 11 acuminate-ovate. Prothorax a little narrower 

 than the head, transverse, subquadrate. Elytra moderately long, 

 subparallel to about the middle, with a deep, oblique intra-humeral 

 depression, a space on each side of the suture thus appearing tumid. 

 Legs long; posterior femora stout, clavate; basal joint of posterior 

 tarsi curved. 



Length 2\, breadth 1 mm. 



Hob. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (Fry), Boa Sorta and Petro- 

 polis [types]. 



Two specimens, apparently females. Very like the 

 insect here identified as X. suiurifer, Pic, but with a rela- 

 tively broader prothorax, the elytra shorter and wanting 

 the scutellar patch, the large triangular Lateral patch 

 extending obliquely inwards to near the suture. The types 

 of X. brasiliensis not having been seen by me, a descripi lod 

 is given of the examples in the British Museum ; the male 

 is stated to have very stout posterior femora. 



65. Xylophilus prehensus, n. sp. (Plate II, fig. 29, 

 anterior leg. o-) 

 c£. Oblong, ratter convex, shining, clothed with rather long, fine 



hairs; testaceous, the head, antennae (the tip of the eleventh joint 

 excepted), prothorax, a transverse patch at the middle of each 



