some Eastern Xyhphilids. 405 



densely, finely, the elytra more coarsely, punctured. Head 

 a little wider than the prothorax, truncate at the base, ex- 

 tended on each sicle behind the eyes, the latter laroe, distant; 

 antennae moderately long", somewhat tliickened, joint 3 about 

 as long as 4, 11 obliquely acuminate. Prothorax trans- 

 versely subquadrate, narrowed anteriorly, depressed laterally 

 towards the apex. Elytra oblong, broad, not very long, with 

 a common, deep, arcuate excavation below tlio base extending 

 forward to the humeri. Tarsi slender. Posterior femora 

 stout, clavate. 



Length 2^ mm. 



Hah. S. India, Kodaikanal {T. V. Camphell). 



Two specimens, ?(^ and ?, one of them in good condition, 

 the other imperfect, both presented to the Museum by Mr. E. A. 

 Butler. An isolated form, with a shining black body, the 

 tarsi in part and the palpi flavescent, the long elytral pubes- 

 cence partly whitish, and arranged into irregular lines and a 

 subapical fascia, the post-basal depressions deep and oblique. 

 X. melanotus, Cliamp. (1916), from Assam, is perhaps the 

 nearest ally known to me. 



Xylophilus hrunneomacidatus. 



? Hylophilus bntmieomaculatus, Pic, ' L'Echange,' xxiii. p. 182 (1907). 

 Xylophilus brunneoinaculatus, Champ. Traus. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1916, 

 p. 20. 



Hah. India, Himalaya. 



Two imperfect specimens recently received from my son 

 (//. G. C.) from W. Almora differ from the two recorded by 

 me from Kasauli and Simla in their much darker color;ition : 

 the head and a common^ broad, indeterminate median fascia 

 on the elytra are black, and the legs, prothorax, and posterior 

 portion of the elytra infuscate or piceous. The antennae are 

 entirely testaceous and formed as in the examples described 

 by me in 1916. The angularly dilated sides of the prothorax 

 separate the present species from X. rosti, Pic, from Kulu, 

 an insect compared with X. neglectus, Duval, and at present 

 unknown to me. 



Xijlophilus himalaiciis, sp. n. 



? . Elongate, rather broad, robust, shining, finely, some- 

 what sparsely pubescent ; black, the tarsi (the infuscate 

 basal joint of the posterior pair excepted) and palpi testaceous, 

 the elytra (a space along the sides extending from a little 

 below the humeri to near the tip and the apical margin 

 excepted) reddish brown ; closely, strongly, the elytra more 



