new Indian ScolytlelK! a?ul Platypodidce. 287 



ceasing before reacliiiio- the centre of the declivity, tlio tliird 

 and fourth coalescing at the centre, where there is a prominent 

 tubercle, below which the surface is smooth, dull, and furnished 

 with a few inegular tubercles representing the continuations 

 of the interstices, the seventh interstice forming a lateral 

 margin terminating before the apex in three or four teeth, 

 which are plainly visible from above and give an appearance 

 to the apex of being abruptly narrowed ; the elytra are more 

 or less broadened towards the apex and are very sparsely 

 covered with yellow hair on the apical third ; there is a 

 narrow but plainly visible margin at the apex. 



Length, 3*8 mm. ; breadth, 1*2 mm. 



? . Differs from the male in size^ the longer frontal 

 median groove, the larger cordiform patch of punctures on the 

 prothorax; the tliird interstice is broadened basally and trans- 

 versely carinate, the declivity is without tubercles, densely 

 covered with reddish hair, the apical depression subtriangular, 

 the apical margin not sharply defined. 



The prothoracic groups of punctures in both sexes are 

 suboval, instead of being circular as is usual. 



Pangjhora Block, Upper Tondu (C. F. C. Beeson), ex Sal 

 felled tree. 



Types in the British Museum. 



Xylehorus reddens^ sp. n. 



Ferrnginous. Front convex, slightly rugose, with narrow 

 longitudirial median line. Frothorax longer than broad, 

 laterally subparallel, rounded anteriorly, transversely rugose 

 to the central transverse nodosity, posteriorly shining and 

 punctate. 



Elytrai\\Q same breadth as, and one-fourth longer than^ the 

 thorax, parallel-sided to the bluntly rounded apex, striate- 

 punctate, the punctures clearly defined ; the interstices flat, 

 with uniseriate piliferous punctures ; the first and third 

 apically tuberculate, the third having a small but prominent 

 tubercle one-third below the vertex of-the declivity, which is 

 abrupt and commences on the apical fourth^ the second 

 inteistice depressed and plain ; a few irregularly placed 

 tubercles occur on the other interstices, the apex clearly but 

 narrowly margined. 



Length, 1*7 mm. ; breadth, '6 mm. 



Khariabandar, Lower Tondu (C. F. C. Beeson), ex Sal. 



Somewhat similar to X. co7}fusus, Eichh., in the arrange- 

 ment of the tubercles, but very much smaller, and having an 

 abrupt declivity, smaller tubercles, etc. 



