1897.] of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 33 



Paussus cucullatus, Westw., 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, ii., 1849, p. 59; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 93, 



pi. xviii., fig. 6. 

 Chestnut red, shining, nearly glabrous ; head with an elevation on 

 the vertex, encircled by a sharp ridge, and bearing two very small 

 tubercles ; club short, broad, with the anterior part compressed, 

 sharp, and with four deep, narrow strije, outer margin broadly and 

 deeply excavate for nearly the whole length, and with the internal 

 part of the excavation with six moderately deep transverse striae, the 

 intervals of which form a blunt serration on both edges ; prothorax 

 bipartite, the anterior part in the shape of a thin disk, slightly 

 angular laterally, and not incised in the median part, posterior part 

 with the lateral walls sloping at apex and not much raised, median 

 part moderately excavate and with no longitudinal impressions ; 

 elytra subparallel, almost glabrous ; femora and tibiae very much 

 compressed and inflated, the posterior tibiae more dilated than the 

 others. Length 4i^ mm. ; width If mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Albany, Port Elizabeth), Natal 

 (Estcourt, Maritzburg, Frere). 



Paussus ruber, Thunb., 

 Vet. Acad. Handl., 1781, t. 2, p. 170. 



Eeddish brown, moderately shining ; head plane and with two 

 very small tubercles on the posterior part ; club somewhat similar in 

 shape to that of P. cucullatus, but it is not quite so much dilated, 

 the striae of the inner margin are not so deep, and the excavated part 

 of the outer margin is not so broad, the stride in the excavation are 

 deeper, but the intervals, although more convex, hardly dentate the 

 edges ; the prothorax bipartite, anterior part lenticular, incised in 

 the middle and distinctly spinose laterally, posterior part bituberculate 

 in the centre, lateral walls sharp and well defined ; elytra parallel, 

 nearly glabrous ; all the tibiae are dilated, but the posterior ones are 

 much broader than the others. Length 4|— 5 mm. ; width 2-2|- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Vaal Eiver, Sterkstroom), Zambezia 

 (Limpopo Eiver). 



Paussus cochlearius, Westw., 

 Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., vol. ii., p. 88, pi. ix., fig. 6; Arcana 



Entom., vol. ii., p. 189, pi. xciv., fig. 3. 

 Chestnut brown, briefly but thickly pubescent, subopaque ; head 

 plane in the centre, carinate transversely in the anterior edge and 

 with two diagonal ridges behind diverging from the central part 



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