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



nitida punctissima subpubescentia. Abdomen segmento 

 anali rotundato, marginato. Pedes longiores, tenuiores, 

 subcompressi. Suhtus testaceo-rufus. 



Three individuals of this species were brought from Nepaul 

 by Major-General Hardwicke, with whose name I have in- 

 scribed it All the specimens agree with each other in the 

 formation of the antenna? and other essential organs ; and I 

 have therefore considered it as distinct from P. affinis, (to which 

 in its general characters it is nearly allied, and of which or of 

 P. lineatus it has been suggested that it may be one of the 

 sexes,) for the reasons which induced me to regard the P. tho- 

 racicus and Fichtelii as distinct. From the P. lineatus it is 

 distinguishable not only in the formation of its antennae and 

 thorax, but also from its geographical situation. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope, in his " Synopsis of the new Species 

 of Nepaul Insects in the Collection of Major-General Hard- 

 wicke," inserted in "Gray's Zoological Miscellany," has adopted 

 my specific name for this insect (p. 27). 



Species 14. Paussus ruficollis. Fabr. 



V. niger, thorace loevi ferrugineo, elytris strig^ mediA, margi- 

 neque omni a strigd ad apicem ferrugineis antennis mag- 

 nis, clavatis, irregularibus, ferrugineis, clav4 elongate in- 

 tegr^. 



Cerocoma ruficollis. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3. 1. part. 2. p. 83. 



Paussus ruficollis. Afzelius, Linn. Trans, vol. iv. p. 273. Fabr. 

 Syst. Eleuth. 2. 75. Schonh. Syn. Ins. 1. part. 3. Rees' 

 Fncycl. vol. xxvi. Genus Pausus, sp. 5. Encycl. Lond. 

 vol. xix. Genus Pausus, no. 5. 



Habitat ~ ? 



" In Mus. Dom. Lund," Fabr. 



Magn. ? 



Parvus, 



