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and running obliquely to the middle of the club, where it 

 ceases. The maxillary lobe is set with fine setiform spines, 

 closer at the tip ; the maxillary palpi have the first two joints 

 transverse, the third more than twice as long as broad ; the 

 mentum is oblong, narrowed in the middle, with the sides 

 incurved ; the labial palpi are inserted close together, the 

 first and third joints are longer than broad. 



The genus is intermediate between Xyloctonus, Eichh., 

 and Scolytogenen, Eichh., and presents the same Scoli/tus-like 

 upward tiexm-e of the abdomen. It difiers from the former 

 in the much larger oval antennal club and the undivided eyes, 

 and from the latter in the six-jointed antennal funiculus. 

 The maxillary armature is that of a xylophagous rather than 

 a phloeophagous species ; and these genera, which show 

 certain affinities with Trypodendron, are perhaps wrongly 

 placed near the Cryphali. 



Scolytomimus dilutus, sp. u. 



Oblongo-ovalis, opacus, glaber, fusco-piceus, elytris stramineis, 

 antennis pedibusque testaceis ; prothorace semiorbiculato, basi 

 bisinuato, apice tnberculo unico exstructo, supra convese gibboso 

 ante basin transverse impresso, granulate, anterius tuberculis 

 magnis, discretis exstructo ; elytris prothorace sesquilongioribus, 

 lateraliter ad medium rectis, inde rotundatis, apice medio baud 

 profuude emargiuatis, supra subdepressis, punctato-striatis, 

 punctis magnis, interstitiis fere planis, angustis, confuse subtiliter 

 puuctulatis, 9° ad apiccm elevate et cum margine laterali ad angu- 

 lum emarginationis externum coujuncto. Subtus piceua, abdo- 

 minis segmentis 2°-5'° transverse impressis, porcatis. 



Long. 2 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon, Bogawantalawa. Two specimens. 



This insect can hardly be confounded with any other 

 species except Xyloctonus scolytoides, Eichh., from which it 

 diflfers by the generic characters, the very large scutellum, 

 and the absence of costEe on the elytra. 



Dryocoetes flavicornisj sp. n. 



Oblongus, cylindricus, sat nitidus, pares breviter pilosus, pedibus 

 nigro-piceis, antennis tarsisque flavo-testaceis, fronte convexa, 

 nitida, fortiter punctata, linea media subcarinata ; antennarum 

 scapo longo, clava ovali, compressa, baud evidenter articulata, ad 

 apicem praecipue inferne pubescente ; prothorace oblongo, mox. 

 ante basin latissimo, lateribus parum apice fortius siugulatim 

 rotundatis, angulis posticis obtusis, dorso leviter convexo, baud 

 gibboso, asperato, tuberculis posterius subtilioribus, prseter 



