174 MONOGRAPH OF THE 
attenuated and bent upwards, with a slight keel along the anterior 
margin and a transverse depression near the base on the upper 
side (fig. 1). The prothorax is subquadrate with the anterior part 
broadest, constricted a little before the middle, the anterior angles 
rounded off, and the fore part having an elevated angulated ridge, 
which is broadly interrupted by a rounded depression in the middle; 
the centre of the prothorax is occupied with a deep transverse 
sulcus, and the hind part is occupied by two large raised glossy 
spaces separated down the middle by an impressed line; the elytra 
are black, with the base rather pitchy, strongly punctate, and 
setose. The abdomen is simple in the specimen examined (fig. 1 a). 
The body beneath is pitchy, with the breast, legs, mouth, and head 
of a redder pitchy colour. 
(Fig, 1 c represents the labial palpus. ] 
Species VIJ.—Paussus Turcicus, Fridv. 
(Plate 88, fig. 5.) 
Oblongus rufus, capite elongato opaco, prothorace transversim diviso, elytris nitidis apice 
dilatatis truncatis macula media communi longitudinali fusca. Long. corp. lin. 22. 
Habitat in montibus Turcicis Balkan dictis. 
Syn. —Paussus turcicus, Fridvaldszky in Hungar, Trans. 1835, vol. 2, pl. 6, fig. 5. 
Westwood, in Trans. Ent. Soc. 2, p. 91. 
I regret not being able to give any further particulars of this 
species, which from its locality must be regarded as interesting. 
The figure here given is copied from M. Fridvaldszky’s plate. 
Sus-section 6. Antennarum clava postice excavata, 
* Species Indice. (Plate 90.) 
Species VIII.—Pavussus Tisraris, Westw. 
(Plate 90, fig. 1.) 
Castaneus nitidus, elytris plaga magna discoidali nigra, antenuarum clava postice (vel supra) 
profundé excavata marginibus vix sinuatis, tibiis posticis dilatatis compressis. Long. 
C 3 
corp. lin. 23. 
Habitat in Bengala. In Mus. D. Westermann et Melly. 
Syn.—Paussus tibialis, Westw. in Trans. Liun. Soc. xix. p. 47. 
This very distinct species is chesnut-coloured and glossy, with 
the disc of each elytron marked with a large thick longitudinal 
blotch, leaving only the margins pitchy red. The head is rather 
narrower than the prothorax, nearly rounded and convex with the 
anterior margin scarcely emarginate, and with an impressed line 
running from the middle of the clypeus to the crown; the sides of 
the head behind the eyes are oblique and punctured. The second 
joint of the maxillary palpi is very much dilated and flattened, 
