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with the middle deeply impressed, the edges of the impression being 
prominent and irregular in shape, and with two rounded tubercles 
in the middle of the hind margin. The elytra are subcylindrical, 
covering the extremity of the abdomen, considerably broader than 
the prothorax, the hinder part being broader ; they are shining, 
with the base reddish buff, and the lateral and posterior margins 
red; the dise pitchy, and very obsoletely and finely punctured, the 
outer and apical margins with several tufts of short, rigid, red sete. 
The body beneath is pale testaceous, and glossy. The feet are 
pitchy ; the femora slightly dilated, especially in the hind feet ; and 
the tibize scarcely compressed, except the posterior pair, which 
are broader than the others. The tarsi are red. The abdomen in 
the single specimen I have hitherto seen is destitute of any external 
appendages. 
[ Fig. 4 a, represents the lower parts of the mouth; 40, the 
back view of the antenne; 4c, front view of ditto; 4 d, front 
part of body, seen sideways. | 
The drawing, published with my monograph in the Linnean 
Transactions, has been corrected by a recent examination of the 
typical specimen of the species. 
Specres VI.—Paussus Piticornis, Donovan. 
(Plate 89, fig. 1.) 
Rufo-testaceus punctatus, elytris piceo-nigris, antennarum clava oblongo-ovata convexa apice 
attenuata incurva pilis longis sparsis. Long. corp. lin. 2. 
Habitat in Bengal4. In. Mus. D. Westermann. : 
* 
Syn. — Paussus pilicornis, Donovan Ins, of India, pl. Paussus, fig. *,.*. Westwood, 
Linn. Trans. xvi., p. 643. 
This minute species having hitherto been known through 
Donovan’s insufficient figure and description, it is with pleasure 
that I now offer a drawing of it, made from a specimen kindly sent 
to me from Copenhagen by M. Westermann, for that purpose. It 
is of a dark-red colour, with the exception of the elytra, which are 
pitchy black, shining and strongly punctate. The head is sub- 
triangular, with the anterior margin notched, and with an im- 
pressed longitudinal line extending from the clypeus to the middle 
of the crown, where is a rather larger circular impression ; the 
angles behind the eyes are but slightly prominent ; the clava of the 
antenna is very setose and somewhat reversed pear-shaped, the 
basal portion being almost circular, with the outer angle at the 
base produced into a short obtuse spine; and the apical portion is 
