a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 641 



Pedes elongati ; tibiis 4 anticis tenuibus ; posticis com- 

 presso-sublatioribus ad apicem paulo angustioribus. 



This species appears to be the least rare of the genus. It 

 varies in size, one of the three specimens in the British Museum 

 cabinet being considerably smaller than the others. The legs 

 are longer and slenderer than in the majority of the species. 

 The dark colour of the disk of the elytra is more suffused than 

 in the next species, extending to the sides. 



The observation of Latreille upon this species, (the name of 

 which he has unnecessarily altered to ' trigonicornis,') " P. li- 

 neato proximus et forth varietas elytris latiiis nigris," appears to 

 me to be incorrect, that species belonging, as I imagine, to the 

 second section, and in structure being nearly allied to P. affinis 

 and Hardwickii. 



Species 7. Paussus Fichtelii. Donovan. 



Tab. XXXIII. Fig. 31—33. 



P. testaceus elytris fuscis, lateribus, basi apiceque testaceis, 



thorace subbipartito ; antennarum clavA, oblong^, latere 



interno acuto, externo excavato, cavitate pyriformi, mar- 



ginibus denticulatis. 

 Paussus Fichtelii. Donovan, Epit. Ins. Ind. pi. 4./". *^*. Hees 



Encycl. vol. xxvi. sub genere "Paussus," pi. 8. Jig. 12. ^ 12*, 



sine descriptione. 

 Habitat India Orientali ; Bengal. Dom. Fichtel. 

 Long. Corp. (secundum figuram Donovani) lin. 2^. 

 In Mus. Kirby. 



Parvus subcylindricus. Pausso thoracico maxime affinis. Dif- 

 fert praecipu^ magnitudine minori, antennarum articuli 

 apicalis form^ divers^ et excavatione pyriformi nee ovali ; 

 thorace sub-bipartito, elytrorumque marginibus lateralibus 

 basi apiceque testaceis, pubescentibus. 



4 N 2 Not 



