1897.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 27 



tured ; legs strong ; abdomen punctured, the other parts of the body 

 smooth." Length 8 mm. 



This species, which I have not seen, is evidently a close ally to 

 P. inermis ; but judging from the figure, the club is more compressed, 

 the spur is longer, but apparently also incised, the elytra are more 

 thickly pubescent than in both the figures of inermis, and the anterior 

 part of the prothorax is more dilated. 



Hab. Natal, teste Thomson, and Port Natal and Abyssinia, teste 

 Kaffray. 



Paussus signatipennis. Per., 



Plate XIIL, fig. 2. 



Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iil, 1885, p. 83, pi. i., fig. 4. 



Brownish red, moderately shining ; head, prothorax, elytra, and 

 legs densely pubescent ; head hexagonal, plane, a little scooped at 

 apex ; penultimate joint thick, flattened, very pilose ; antennal club 

 compressed, sublamelliform, as long as the head and anterior part 

 of prothorax put together, nearly as broad as the anterior part of 

 the head, curving outwardly, carinate in the inner margin, slightly 

 emarginate at about the median part in the posterior margin, which 

 is not grooved thickly but briefly pubescent, outer angle produced in 

 a more or less rounded spur ; prothorax bipartite, anterior part much 

 raised, almost perpendicular behind, broadest in the middle, sides 

 narrow and ridge shape, posterior part with three longitudinal 

 impressions separated by two median ridges, lateral walls raised 

 and tuberculated at apex above the small flavescent patch ; elytra 

 subparallel, somewhat roughly punctured and having a dense, long, 

 greyish pubescence ; they are of the same colour as the prothorax 

 and more shining than the head and prothorax, and have on each 

 side a narrow black band running diagonally from under the humeral 

 angle to a short distance of the median part of the suture, a sub- 

 quadrate patch of the same colour in the posterior part, and the 

 apical part of the suture is also edged with black ; tibiae compressed, 

 slightly dilated. Length 8 mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Paussus concinnus, Per., 



Plate XII., fig. 6 ; Plate XIIL, tig. 12. 



Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 150. 



Head, prothorax, and legs brick-red; elytra black, edged with 



red at the base and apex ; head and prothorax glabrous, the former 



edged in front on the vertex with a high semicircular ridge which 



is broadly emarginate in the middle and reaches from eye to eye, 



