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The elytra pe: ires twice as long as the Het. uec with 
-an obliquely flatt apex ; shining with close rows of small punctures, 
the interstices bete etween the rows having occasional inate punctures. 
M rst and third interstices bear at the apex of the elytra two or 
T "three small tubercles, each carrying a aep The second interstice is 
slightly depressed, and bears no tuberc 
. The legs pd Jolow, and và tibus 7 shanks) have the outer edge 
rounded and set with TT. eth. 
Eu 14 we te 2-2-7 mm. 
Male smaller and ps thorax with a flattened | triangular aci 
in front, below which the anterior margin is prolonged into a small 
tuberele. Wings absent; elytra only half as long again as thorax, 
more convex and less cylindrical than in female. us 
A fuller description will be found under the name X. affinis in - 
 Eiehhoff's Ratio pernicie (le. 
ly ral Wes orus are only em) distinct from | 
f ich. trom A: as sX. Kraatzii, Eich., from Ceyl and X. vestis iue 

5. Grocrarnroar DistiiBUTION. 
T aki Spiesoma perforans appears to be generally distributed in the tropical 
T and sub-tropical regions. It has been found in British India, Ceylon, 
‘Burma, the Malay Archipelago (I possess specimens taken by Wallace 
-in Batchian, Dorey, Celebes, &c.), Madeira, the Canary Isles, Mauritius, 
- Rodriguez, the West Indian Isles » North America, Central America, 
Brazil, Guiana, Peru, &c., and probably Australia 
. "To some of these localities it has probably been imported through 
commerce, and it is not — that its original habitat is in Tr opical 
America. 
is not certain if it oceurs commonly in Indis away from stor 
These borers are but little eee iss tenite. 
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dae been established in them, cannot be decided upon present evidence, 
but considering its wide distribution d it has probably — in 
most of them for some Pape rie tim 
r. H. H. Smith writes (12) *it is common in all parts of St. 
E Vincent, fuel in districts where the cane disease has not. 




d ot bovag seen any record of it from i amaica, I wrote aA ds 
time ago for any specimens of injured barrel staves, and D found | it i 
Y: "— eden This feet à is interesting in the face of t : 
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mer atte 
dt is, dsl is /evidenes: from all parts of irá world that there i 
reika y conveyance for it than a barrel-sta à 
: insect’s attacks have at present been ird from. St. 
do Trinidad, and ' ars =r: of the Com ral 
, January 29th , 1892). . 



