a Family of Coleopterous Insects. ' 643 



Species 8. Paussus pilicornis. Donovan. 

 Tab. XXXIII. Fig. 34. 



P. testaceus, elytris piceis, thorace bipartite ; antennarum clavd 

 oblongd, apice attenuate, incurv4, pilis longis sparsis. 



Paussus pilicornis. Donovan, Ejpit. Ins. Ind. pi. Paussus, 

 Jig. *** . 



Paussus pectinicornis, Rees' Encycl. Entomology, pi. Q. fig. 13. 

 (^ 13*. sine descriptione. 



Habitat Indi^ Orientali ; Bengal. Dom. Fichtel. 



Long. corp. (e fig. Donovani) lin. 2. 



Parvus, tenuior, testaceus. Caput thoracis portione anticA an- 

 gustius. Antenna articulo ultimo oblongo, apice attenuate, 

 incurvo, pilis longis sparsis. Thorax bipartitus, portio an- 

 tica lateribus acuta, portioque postica mult6 angustior late- 

 ribus rotundatis. Elytra thorace basi latiora, etiam postic^ 

 quam antic^ paul6 latiora, picea. Pedes graciles. 



I have never seen this species, and have therefore been 

 compelled to draw the above description from Donovan's short 

 specific character and figure ; and, as that author remarks, it 

 altogether differs in the formation of the terminal joint of 

 the antennae from the other species, being entire, not exca- 

 vated, and slightly beset with hairs. It appears to be allied to 

 P. Linncei. 



Sectio II. Thorax suhcontinuus. 



Species 9. Paussus sph^rocerus. Afzelius. 



Tab. XXXIII. Fig. 35. 



P. rufo-castaneus, nitidissimus, angustior, subcylindricus ; ca- 

 pite vertice cornu parvo conico, erecto, pilis terminate, in- 



structo ; 



