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XXXII. — Some new Species o/Ipidae and Platypodidae in the 

 British Museum. By Lt.-Col. Winn Sampson, F.E.S. 



The first two species described are from specimens received 

 through Mr. Guy Marshall from Mr. Urich, and found on 

 cacao-plants in Trinidad. The only other specimens of 

 A', urichi in the British Museum are two received in 1905 

 from Angola (Portuguese West Africa), and reported as 

 damaging the cacao-plants there, but whether to a serious 

 extent is not stated. 



Amphicranus theobroma, sp. n. 



Oblongus, nitidus, glaber, piceo-brunneus ; prothorace lateribiis 

 subrecto, a triente antico in apicem coustrieto, supra ad apicem 

 oblique rotundatim declivi, asperato ; sumino antico tuberculo 

 minute ornato ; elytris vix conspicue punctatis, post medium 

 oblique excavatis, ad apicem breviter productis, anguste divari- 

 catis, raargine excavationis utrinque dentibus tribus ornato, tertio 

 majore prope apicem, exstructo. 



Long. 2-5, lat. 0'9 mm. 



Hab. Trinidad. 



Near to A. collaris, Bldf., but smaller, with all the abdo- 

 minal segments similaily coloured and with a prominent 

 single tubercle on the centre of the i)rothoracic anterior edge, 

 which is bisinuate, with the base truncate ; the exposed 

 portion of the mesonotum above the scutellum strongly 

 punctured ; anterior tibiae very strongly toothed on the outer 

 edge and having the inner edge sinuous and hairy ; femoral 

 lobe large. 



Xyleborus urichi, sp. n. 



Oblongus, prothorace semielliptico, gibbo, sutnmo apice medio 

 granulis proaiinulis notato, dorso postice puuctato ; elytris a basi 

 ad medium valde nitidis, aequo pulvinato-convexis, dense striato- 

 puuctatis, et intei'stitiis irregulariter punctatis : sed a medio ad 

 apicem opacis, subtilissime granulatis, interstitiis tuberculis 

 pilisque ornatis. 



Long. 3-0 mm. 



Hab. Trinidad. 



Head ferrugineous, retracted, slightly convex, and evenly 

 rugulose-punctate, with a straight transverse row of pale 

 yellow hairs anteriorly ; eyes oblong and emarginate, with 



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