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is elongato-quadrate, nearly twice as long as broad, and like the club 

 hardly pubescent ; pi'othorax bipartite, lenticular, with the edges not 

 very sharp, incised in the centre and laterally so as to look quadri- 

 tuberculate, and raised higher than the posterior, which has two 

 median longitudinal impressions separated by a double ridge, with 

 the lateral walls hardly raised, sloping towards the median transverse 

 impression, which has a small, black tubercle on each side next to 

 the small flavescent patch ; elytra subparallel, finely shagreened and 

 very briefly pubescent ; legs slender. Length 5-6 mm ; width 

 2-2^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town and environs). 



Paussus afzelii, 



Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1855, p. 82; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., 



p. 96, pi. vii., fig. 6. 



P. laetus, Gerstack, Stett. Zeit., 1867, p. 430. 



Very similar to P. lineatus in shape, sculpture, and colouring, but 

 the shape of the antennal club and of the prothorax is different ; the 

 former has the same shape, but is longer and curves more backward, 

 and the posterior declivity on the upper part has six longer striae 

 instead of four, with the intervals rounded and denting the upper 

 edge ; basal spur sharp but not long ; the latter is also bipartite, but 

 the anterior raised part is not so lenticular, it is deeply incised in 

 the middle, but not laterally, and the walls of the posterior part are 

 a little more raised and there is only one broad median impression. 

 Length 6-6| mm. ; width 2^-2^ mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Eustenburg, Leydenburg) ; occurs also in 

 Abyssinia. 



Paussus culteatus, Westw., 

 Plate XIII. , fig. 17. 



Proc. Linn. Soc, 1849, p. 52; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 86, 

 pi. xix., fig. 1. 



? P. plinii, Thorns., Arch. Entom., i., 1857, p. 403, pi. xxi., fig. 3. 



Light testaceous, shining ; head, thorax, and elytra briefly 

 pubescent ; head convex on vertex, elongato-quadrate ; first joint of 

 antennae elongato-quadrate and hollowed in the upper part, club 

 compressed, long, falciform, with both inner and outer margins sharp, 

 the inner one nearly straight for two-thirds of the length and sharply 

 curved, inner margin slightly sinuate past the median part, apical 

 part narrowed and very sharp ; prothorax with a deep impression on 

 each side of the median part and with a small pubescent yellow 

 patch on each side, anterior part not more raised than the posterior 



