224 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



transverse, darker fascia% wliicli are sonielimos indistinct or 

 obsolete, tlie eyes black, the posterior teniora slightly int'uscate 

 towards the apex ; the upper surface densely, minutely, the 

 elytra a little more coarsely, punctate, very finely pubescent. 

 Head short, broad, the eyes very lar^e, separated by about 

 the width of one of them and occupying- nearly the whole of 

 the side of the head ; antennae slender, slightly widened out- 

 wards, moderately loiif^, joint 3 small, about half the length 

 of 4, -4-10 subequal in length, 11 acuminate-ovate. Pro- 

 thorax transversely-subquadrate, obliquely narrowed in front, 

 the disc with a transverse impression before the base. 

 Elytra short, about twice as wide as the prothorax, sub- 

 parallel in their basal half, the post-basal depression trans- 

 verse and rather deep. Li^gs slender, the anterior tibise in 

 ($ angularly dilated towards the apex within, the posterior 

 femora moderately incrassate, simple. 



Length l|-2 mm. {S ? )• 



llab. India, Calcutta {ex coll. Pascoe) [type] ; Ceylon 

 [Thwnites, in Mas. Brit.). 



One male from Calcutta, three females from Ceylon, almost 

 certainly belonging to the same species. Extremely like 

 A', dikoyaniis, but with a small third joint to the anteuntc 

 and the eyes not quite so large ; the elytra in the ^ type 

 distinctly trifasciate (the second fascia placed just beyond 

 the middle) ; the antennae of S much shorter, and the arma- 

 ture of the anterior tibise different in this sex. X. rujinus, 

 Fairm,, from Belgaum, must be an allied form : a co-type of 

 the supposed $ (which is really a cj with a minute tooih on 

 the anterior tibia?), lent me by Mr. Andrewes, is very like 

 X. orientalis, but it has smaller eyes, stouter antennae, and 

 shorter unicolorous elytra. X. rufotestaceus, Pic, from 

 Malabar, is unrecognizable from description. The Thwaites 

 specimens were received by the Museum in 18G7. 



Xylopliilus diversiceps, 



Hylophihts nigronotatus, var. diversiceps, Pic, Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. 1912, 

 pp. 270, 280. 



Hal. Ceylon, Kandy. 



The type o£ this form is almost certainly a ? , and the 

 differences between it 2i\\<\ X. nigronotatus, (J, show that they 

 cannot be the sexual complements of the same species: the 

 })rothorax is more transverse, being nearly as wide as the 

 head ; the elytra are much broader ; the antemiaj are com- 

 paratively short and slender ; the legs are shorter ; and the 

 posterior femora are but little thickened. The insect is testa^ 

 ceous, with the head, and a large triangular scutellar patch 



