218 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



obliquely acuminate. Protliorax snhquaflrate, oljliquely 

 narrow ed anteriorly and sliirlitly constricted at about the 

 middle, the disc with an arcuate depression before the base 

 and a shallow transverse groove in front of it. Elytra long, 

 nearly twice as wide as the protliorax, subparallel in their 

 basal halt, tlattened, the disc with a large, deep, oblique im- 

 jiression below the base. Legs long, slender, the posterior 

 femora moderately thickened. 



(^ . Anterior tibije sliiihtly hollowed towards the apex 

 within, and also perceptibly curved; anterior tarsi dilated, 

 the basal joint much thickened ; posterior femora with a 

 narrow, pallid, pad along their lower face, bearing a dense 

 fringe of short flavo-testaceous hairs. 



Length 22-3 mm. (c? ?). 



Hab. Ceylon {ex Mus. Murray; G. LeM;/^), Nuwara EHa. 



Two males and several females, the sexes identitied by 

 Mr. Lewis, whose specimens were captured in Dec. 1881 or 

 Feb. 1882. There can be little doubt that the insect before 

 me is the imperfectly described X. (^Euylenus) planipennis 

 from Nuwara Elia [Nura Ellia]. 



Xylophilus testaceipenm's. 



Eiifflemis testaceipennis, Motsch. Bull. Moac. 1863, i. p. 518 (neo Pic, 

 i912). 



(J . Moderately elongate, shining ; nigro-piceous, the an- 

 tennae, palpi, tarsi, anterior femora and tibiae, and the other 

 teniora and tibiie at the base and apex, testaceous, the elytra 

 testaceous, with the suture at the base and a])ex and the outer 

 margin narrowly infuscate ; clothed with rather long, pallid, 

 shaggy pubescence. Head transverse, much broader than 

 the protliorax, narrowly extended on each side behind the 

 very large eyes, which are separated by about half 'their 

 width, closely punctate ; antennje moderately long, not very 

 stout, joints 3-10 subequal in length, subcylindrical, 2 mucii 

 shorter than 3, 11 stout, as long as 9 and 10 united, obliquely 

 acuminate. Prothorax subquadrate, narrowed in front, 

 densely punctate, without depression. Elytra moderately 

 long, much wider than the head, subparallel to about the 

 middle, more coarsely and more diffusely punctured than the 

 prothorax, the disc with a long, deep, oblique depression 

 below the base. Legs long; anterior tibiai slender, abruptly 

 Ijent inwards towards the apex (much as in X. cribricollis=. 

 mucronatus, Pic), and feebly mucronate at the inner apical 

 angle; intermediate tibiae moderately, and the posterior tibiae 

 strongly, clavate, the latter sim[)le ; tarsi rather slender. 



Length 21, breadth 1 mm. 



