COLEOPTEROUS FAMILY PAUSSID&. 171 
This species is closely allied to the following, but is at once 
distinguished by its minute size, the want of the two porrected 
tubercles behind the eyes, the form of the clava of the antenne, 
the want of the pale scales scattered over the body, &e. 
Species 4.—Pasussus Burmerstert, Westw. 
(Plate 89, fig. 2.) 
Obscure castaneo-piceus albido-squamosus ; elytris magis rufescentibus ; capite pone oculos 
utrinque spina armato; thorace bipartito; elytris subangustis pedibusque dilatatis. 
Long. corp. lin, 3. 
Habitat apud Promont. Bon. Spei. Mus. Reg. Berol. Hope, Evans, Westermann. 
Syn. Paussus Burmeisteri, Westw., in Trans. Ent. Soc., ii., p. 86, pl. ix., f. 3. 
Paussus contractus, Klug MSS, 
This dull-coloured insect is closely allied to the preceding, as 
above mentioned ; it is of a pitchy-chesnut colour, with pale scales 
scattered over the upper surface, and the elytra, especially towards 
the extremities, are of a redder hue, and destitute of gloss. The 
head is somewhat oval, narrowed in front, and impressed in the 
middle of the anterior margin, from whence runs a rounded 
impression towards the middle of the head; between the eyes is a 
small round excavation, within which is a minute tubercle; the head 
on each side behind the eyes is produced into a short blunt spine. 
The clava of the antenne (fig. 2 a) is very irregular on the upper 
surface; the base broadly truncate, and slightly angulated in the 
middle, with the outer or upper angle produced into an obtuse 
point; the anterior margin with several small sinuations; the 
extremity rounded but slightly emarginate behind both near the 
basal point and apex, the middle space considerably bulging out, 
and bearing four minute setigerous tubercles. The prothorax is 
subovate truncate, rather broader than the broadest part of the 
head, as well as longer ; near the anterior part is a deep constric- 
tion, the anterior portion being angulated at the sides, and formed 
into a transverse angulated ridge, interrupted in the middle; the 
hinder part of the prothorax is marked with a deep and broad 
sulcus in the middle, bearing two small patches of luteous hairs at 
the sides in front, and having the edges of the impressed part 
rather acute, but irregular. The elytra are but little wider than 
the prothorax; they do not entirely cover the extremity of the 
abdomen ; they are transversely impressed at the base, and bear 
the ordinary tubercles at the apical outer angles. The feet (fig. 2 d) 
are short, with the femora and tibiz broad and compressed, the 
