some Eastern Xylophilids. 399 



obliquely acuminate. Protliorax transversely subqiiadratf, 

 n-.rrouedin front, unimpressed. Elytra wider tliau the head, 

 comparatively short, narrowiri!:^ from about the middle, without 

 depressions on the disc. Anterior and intermediate tibiae 

 feebly curved, sinuate within, the latter subangulate near the 

 base ; posterior femora curved, very stout, hollowed along 

 their lower face, the lower edge shortly ciliate and also angu- 

 late at the apex as seen from above ; posterior tiljite flat- 

 tened, curved inward, slender at the base ; basal joint of 

 ])osterior tarsi almost straight, long. 



Length 2 mm. 



Hab. Philippines, Basilan Island {C. F. Baker). 



Two males in good condition. Larger than X. epkippiatiis, 

 Champ. (1916), from Tenasserim, the elytra differently 

 marked, the head testaceous, the (J characters different, the 

 posterior femora, however, somewhat similarly formed in this 

 sex. The Bornean X. ivimaculipennis is also not unlike the 

 present species. 



Xylophilus bakeri. 



Hijlojyhilus hakeri and var. sericeopubens, Pic, ' L'Echange,' xxxi. 

 pp. 7, 8 (Feb. 1915). 



(J . Moderately elongate, rather broad, shining (when 

 denuded) ; rufo-testaceous above, the eyes black, the pro- 

 thorax slightly infuscate along the sides and on the middle of 

 the disc, the elytra with a large transverse scutellar patch, 

 a broad, common, sharply angulate, submedian fascia, and a 

 space along the sides, the under surface of the body, and the 

 posterior femora and tibiee, nigro-piceous or black ; pruinose 

 and very finely pubescent, the vcititnre fuscous on theelytral 

 fascia and cinereous on the other parts of the surface ; 

 closely, finely, the elytra a little more distinctly, punctured. 

 Head broad, narrowly extended behind the eyes, the latter 

 large, somewhat distant ; antennse moderatel}'' long, not very 

 slender, serrate from joint 4 onward, 3 small, not longer than 

 2, 11 stout, acuminate. Protliorax siibquadrate, narroAved 

 in front, arcuately impressed on the disc before the base. 

 Elytra oblong, much wider than the head, moderately elon- 

 gate, depressed on the disc below the base. Anterior tibiie 

 armed with a sharp triangular tooth towards the apex. 

 Posterior femora moderately clavate, simple, the tibite stout. 

 Aedeagus (so far as visible in the dried specimen) very slender, 

 pointed at tip. 



Length 2^ mm. 



Hub. Philippines, Los Banus (P. L. Baker). 



