288 On new Indian Scoljtidae and Platypodidae. 



Xylehorus turhineus, sp. n. 



Head and prothorax yellow, the elytra a darker reddish 

 brown. Front subconvex, with large but shallow punctures 

 and a narrow, obscure, and interrupted median carina from 

 the epistoma to the vertex; the eyes eniarginate, with coarse 

 facets. Protliorax oblong, declivous in front and rugose as 

 far as the antemedian transverse elevation, posteriorly smooth 

 and shining, with well-marked and numerous piliferous 

 punctures ; broadest anteriorly, decreasing from the rounded 

 anterior margin to the rounded basal angle. Elytra very 

 slightly broader than the base of the prothorax and one-third 

 as long again, narrowed from the apical third to the very 

 pointed apex, obscurely lineate-punctate, the interstices 

 having stronger hairs than the stride, the first being tubercu- 

 late from the base, the second from about the centre, and 

 both ending apically in distinct spines, the first interstice 

 having the longer one ; the lateral interstices are tuberculate 

 towards the apex. 



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



Bengal : Kaja Bhat Khawa, ex Sal. 



Closely allied to X. andrewesi, Blandf., but much larger, 

 the apex not opaque, the sculpture of the elytra different, etc. 



Xylehorus eleyans, sp. n. 



Pitchy black, legs testaceous. Front subconvex, hairy, 

 with a longitudinal median line from the epistoma to the 

 vertex, minutely transversely rugose on a shagreened surface. 

 Frothorao] subglobose and subopaque, slightly broader than 

 long, evenly rugose as far as the transverse nodosity ; the 

 anterior edge closely but minutely tuberculate, posteriorly 

 less rugose on a shagreened surface. Scutellum obsolete. 

 Elytra the same breadth as, and one-fourth longer than, the 

 prothorax, declivous from the centre, punctate-slriate, basally 

 depressed on each side of the suture, the base fringed with 

 hair ; the first interstice flat and subopaque from the declivity 

 to the apex, the next six becoming costate before the declivity, 

 the fourth being the most prominent, the second interstice 

 narrowed and ceasing at the declivity, the third curved 

 inwards towards the suture at the centre of the declivity, but 

 outwards again belore reacliing the apex ; the fourth is also 

 somewhat incurved, becoming narrower and ceasing before 

 the apex, the next tiiree being very similar ; the sides of the 

 elytra are subparallel to the apical fourth and then rounded 



