220 Mr. G. C. Champion oji 



tlio elytra with a laro^e, faint, indeterminate, Immoral patch 

 extending downwards along the sides, and an almost obsolete 

 patch on tlie disc before the apex, the base and extreme tip of 

 the antennfP, palpi, tarsi, anterior femora, and the base of the 

 posterior tibia?, testaceous or reddish; clothed with an extremely 

 tine, adpressed, brown ish-r^rey pubescence. Head convex, 

 gradually narrowed behind the rather small eyes, densely, 

 finely punctate ; antenuiB moderately loritr, slightly widened 

 outwards, joint 3 smaller than 2, triangular, 4-10 long, sub- 

 equal in length, subserrate, 11 stout, obliquely acimiinate. 

 Prothorax subquadrate, sinuate at the base, obliquely nar- 

 rowed in front, densely, finely punctate, the disc with shallow 

 arcuate depression behind. Elytra moderately long, nearly 

 twice as wide as the prothorax, subparallel to about the middle, 

 closely, somewhat coarsely punctate, transversely depressed 

 below the base. Legs long, the posterior femora moderately 

 thickened, simple. 



Length 2 mm. (c??). 



Bab. ('EYLON, Bogawantalawa, between 4900 and 5200 ft. 

 (6^. Leiois). 



One specimen, found March 8tli, 1882. Less elongate 

 \hM\ X. plani2yennisj the antennje with joint 3 very small, 

 4-10 long, subequal, and 11 thickened, the elytra much 

 shorter, more coarsely punctate, and transversely depressed 

 below the base. Larger, more robust, and with much 

 longer limbs than X. suhcrassicarnis, Pic, from Kand}', which 

 also hfiS a minute third antennal joint. X. rvjipes, Motsch., 

 from Isuwaia Elia, may be an allied form (?) ; it is described 

 as nigro-fuscous, with the antennae and legs rufo-testaceou.«, 

 the elytra fusco-testaceous, the length f lin. The type of 

 X. taprohanus is probably a male, to judge from the length 

 of the antennie, but the anterior tibiaj and posterior femora 

 are simple. 



XyJophilus scoparius, sp. n. 



Elongate, shining ; testaceous, the head, the elytral suture 

 very narrowly, the under surface, the posterior femora (except 

 at the base), and in one specimen the apices of the inter- 

 mediate femora also, black or piceous, the prothorax reddish ; 

 clothed with rather long, pallid pubescence. Head transverse, 

 densely, finely panctate, narrowly extended on each side 

 beliind the very large eyes ; antennae short, rather slender, 

 slightly widened outwards, joints 3-10 subequal in length, 

 ]1 stout, obliquely acuminate. Prothorax rouiided-sub- 

 quadrate, narrower than the head, densely, finely punctate, 

 without definite depression on the disc. Elytra long, sub- 

 parallel, flattened, much wider than the head, obliquely 



