646 Mr. J. O. Westwood on the Paussidce, 



postic^ paul6 latiori et elevation pland, in duabus partibus 

 line4 impressa longitudinali centralique divis^ ; parte pos- 

 tica angustiori (praesertim ad ejus basin) in medio exca- 

 vatione oblonga. Elytra thorace latiora, lineari-oblonga, 

 subdepressa, abdominis apicem non tegentia. Pedes me- 

 diocres femoribus tibiisque subcylindricis hirsutis, tarsis 

 tibiarum crassitudine hirtis. 



This is a very remarkable species : the elongation of the 

 body, the structure of the antennae, thorax, tarsi, and spinous 

 head at once distinguish it from all the other species, and are 

 so remarkable, that I have no doubt, when the trophi are care- 

 fully examined, sufficient variation from the typical formation 

 will be discovered to warrant the establishment of it as a distinct 

 genus. I regret that I was unable to examine these organs in 

 the specimen preserved in the collection of M. le Comte Dejean, 

 from which the above description and accompanying drawing 

 were made, and which originally formed part of that of M. La- 

 treille. It is therefore only provisionally that I place it amongst 

 the Paussi near to P. sphccrocerus, to which in some respects 

 it most nearly approaches. 



Species 11. Paussus affinis mihi. 

 Tab. XXXIII. Fig. 36, 37. 

 P. castaneo-rufescens, elytrorum disco nigro, thorace supr^ in- 

 aequali lateribus anticb rotundatis ; antennarum clava sub- 

 ovata, subconvex^, basi extern^ in spinam exeunte. 



Habitat ? 



Long. Corp. lin. 3^. 



In Mus. Brit, (sub nomine Ms. " lineatus"). 



Nova species. Subcylindricus, nitidus, tenuissime punctatis- 

 simus, et subpubescens. Caput thoracis latitudine, porrec- 



tum. 



