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



Species 1. Hylotorus Bucephalus. GylL, Schonh. 

 Tab. XXXTII. Fig. 41, 42. 



H. totus pallida testaceus, glaber, oculis nigris, thorace postic^ 



transversa sulcato. 

 Paiisus Bucephalus. Gyllenhal in Schonh. Syn. Ins. vol. i. p. 3. 



App. p. 15. tab. 6. /. 2. ^ /. 2 c. caput magn. auct. 

 Hylotorus Bucephalus. Dalman, Analect. Ent. p. 103. Latreille, 



Regne Animal, 2nde edit. vol. v. p. QS. 

 Habitat Sierr^ Leone, Africd. Dom. Afzelius. 

 In Mus. Schonherr. 

 Long. Corp. (e figura Schoenherri) lin. 2^. 



Magnitudine Anobii mollis aequalis, et colore similis, pallid^ tes- 

 taceus, glaber, nitidus. Caput fronte line^ impress^, postic^ 

 bifidd, ramulis in tuberculis duobus vel ocellis desinentibus. 

 Oculi nigri. Antenna corpore concolores, articulis ut supr^ 

 dictum. Thorax supr^ inaequalis, paul^ pone medium strigd 

 angulat^, vald^ profundi, et anticfe posticfeque aliis obso- 

 letissimis, transversim impressus. Scutellum concolor. Ely- 

 tra testacea, nitida, Isevia. Ala fusco-hyalinae. Corpus 

 subtils testaceum, punctulatum. Pedes pallid^ testacei. 

 The specific characters given above are derived from Gyllen- 

 hal's description. I have not seen the species, which is the 

 only one with which I am acquainted belonging to the genus. 



Genus 4. Platyrhopalus* mihi. 



Paussus. Donovan, Gyll., Schonh., Dalm. 



Type of the Genus, Paussus denticornis, Don. 



Corpus depressum. Caput thorace minus, porrectum, subqua- 

 dratum, posticfe in collum breve angustatum. Oculi magni, 



* nxarv;, latus ; and poiru^ov, clava ; in allusion to the broad flat terminal point of 

 the antennas. 



prominuli, 



