We briefly describe a serendipitous observation of the little-studied intermediate polar WX Pyx using XMM-Newton .
The X-ray spin period is 1557.3 sec , confirming the optical period published in 1996 .
An orbital period of \sim 5.54 hr is inferred from the separation of the spin-orbit sidelobe components .
The soft and hard band spin-folded light curves are nearly sinusoidal in shape .
The best-fit spectrum is consistent with a bremsstrahlung temperature of \sim 18 keV .
An upper limit of \sim 300 eV is assigned to the presence of Fe line emission .
WX Pyx lies near TX and TV Col in the P _ { spin } -P _ { orb } plane .