a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 645 



apice globoso lucentibus." From this specimen the accom- 

 panying sketch was taken. I may be here allowed to correct 

 the reference to the parts of fig. 3. in the plate accompanying 

 Afzelius's paper, in which b. represents the ball of the pedicle 

 of the antennae, and not the hook of the clava, which is repre- 

 sented by fig. d, and not, as stated in the description of the 

 plate, by fig. b. 



Species 10. Paussus armatus. Dejean. 

 Tab. XXXIII. Fig. 62—64. 



P. oblongus, angustior, obscur^ rufescenti-fuscus, capitis vertice 

 spina erect4 acut^ Isevi ; antennarum clav4 subrotundatd 

 depress^, basi extern^ in spinam producto, thorace posticfe 

 paul6 angustiori et in medio vald^ excavate. 



Paussus armatus. Dejean Mss. 



Habitat in Senegali^. 



In Mus. Dejean (e Mus. D. Latreille), Dupont. 



Long. Corp. lin. 5. 



Nova species. Oblongus, angustus, subdepressus, toto obscur^ 

 rufescenti-fuscus, punctatissimus, subpubescens, vix niti- 

 dus. Caput magnum thoracis latitudine ferh hexangulare, 

 antic^ emarginatum, subdepressum, ante oculos paul6 plCis 

 productum quam in speciebus reliquis ; vertice inter oculos 

 spin^ erectd acutd parva Iffivi, line^que tenui impress^i ante 

 oculos e margine capitis ferh ad ejus verticem utrinque 

 obliqufe, ducta. Oculi magni. Antennarum clava thorace 

 major, basi subemarginatfe truncata, lat^ ovalis, margine 

 externo prope basin emarginatb contracta, inde basis ipse 

 externus in spinam acutam produci videtur ; disco supr^ 

 subtdsque convexo, margine omni acuto setigero. Thorax 

 paul6 longior quam latior, parte anticd (tertiam thoracis 

 partem occupante) utrinque obliqufe rect^que dilatatd ind^ 



postice 



