32 Descriptive Catalogue [1897. 



Paussus raffrayi, P6r., 



Plate XII., fig. 1 ; Plate XIIL, fig. 3. 



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



Piceous black, with the apical part of the elytra and the tarsi 

 reddish brown ; head rugulose, with the anterior part deeply 

 impressed in the centre, and the walls of the impression raised in two 

 short tuberculiform processes, posterior part bi-impressed ; club of 

 the antennae subensiform, very long, compressed, external margin 

 with a moderately wide groove reaching from the base to near the 

 apex, both edges of the groove faintly notched ; prothorax bipartite, 

 the anterior part raised, smooth, the median transverse cavity wide 

 and deep and having two yellow pubescent patches in the centre, 

 posterior part depressed and with three tuberculated indentations ; 

 elytra subparallel, shining, moderately punctured, each puncture 

 with a very short, greyish hair ; anterior and intermediate tibiae 

 slender, posterior tibiae broadly dilated and flattened. Length 

 5 mm. ; width 1^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Frere). 



Paussus klugi, Westw., 

 Plate XIIL, fig. 15. 

 Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., p. 85, pi. ix., fig. 2 ; Arcana. Entom., 

 vol. ii., p. 183, pi. xci., fig. 4. 

 Ferruginous or piceous red, moderately shining, very briefly 

 pubescent ; head plane on the vertex, with a median longitudinal 

 groove, posterior part with two slight protuberances ; club elongate, 

 very little shorter than head and thorax together, laminiform, 

 carinate all along the inner and apical margin, posterior part thicker 

 than the anterior, broadly grooved from base to apex, the groove with 

 seven impressions on the lower part and with six sharp, short, 

 briefly setigerous teeth projecting beyond the edge, upper edge not 

 denticulate ; prothorax bipartite, anterior part lenticular, but more 

 convex in front than behind, slightly emarginate in the centre and 

 subangular laterally, median incision very deep and broad, pos- 

 terior part as broad as the anterior, lateral walls short and sharp, 

 median part with three small impressions divided by two smooth, 

 not much raised tubercles ; elytra subparallel and with a very brief 

 and scattered pubescence ; posterior tibiae much dilated, triangular, 

 the anterior and intermediate ones slender. Length 6 mm. ; width 

 2 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Maritzburg, Estcourt, Frere), Transvaal (Water- 

 berg). In the examples from Estcourt and Frere the colour is 

 piceous red instead of being ferruginous. 



