660 Mr. J. O. Westwood on the Paussida, 



supr^ subdepressum, obsolete canaliculatum, et, e figur^ 

 Schonherri, vix anticb emarginatum. Oculi glauci. An- 

 tenna articulo apicali inaximo, fere piano, vel multura com- 

 presso, ovali, in margine superiori vel externo profundtj 

 incisus. Thorax brevis, transversus, anticfe multo latior, 

 lateribus rotundato-dilatatis, pone medium cit(!> coarctatus, 

 S anteriCis convexus, posteriiis depressus, et strig4 media 



transversa, abbreviate, impressus. Elytra humeris an- 

 trorsilm prominentibus, castanea, subnitida. Corpus sub- 

 tiis brunneo-castaneum, nitidum. Pedes breviusculi, pal- 

 lidiiis castanei, valdfe compressi, tibiis dilatatis. 



The chief differences observable between this species (the 

 material characters of which, in consequence of not having 

 met with a specimen, I have abridged from Gyllenhal's detailed 

 specific description,) and Donovan's P. denticornis are, the uni- 

 formity of colour in the former, the apparently rounded front of 

 its head, the sudden coarctation of the base of its thorax, and 

 its " striga media transversa, abbreviata." 



In consequence of the priority of Donovan's specific name 

 denticornis, applied to the preceding species, I have considered 

 it expedient to give this a name referring to the uniformity of 

 its colour. 



Amongst the insects brought from Nepaul by Major-General 

 Hardwicke, is a mutilated specimen of an insect intimately 

 allied to the two preceding species, but apparently distinct 

 from either of them. As the elytra, legs, and abdomen of the 

 specimen are wanting, I am unable satisfactorily to ascertain 

 its specific identity. The head and thorax, however, are smaller 

 and darker-coloured than in P. denticornis Don. ; the thorax is 

 proportionably rather longer ; the eyes are black ; the head is 

 rounded and subdepressed in front and not emarginate ; the 



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