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being almost circular, with the inner apical angle produced and 
rounded, and the outer margin setose (fig. 1 a); the clava of the 
antenna is subovate with the anterior margin acutely keeled and 
rather curved, the base produced at the outer angle into a rather 
obtuse tooth, the hind part of the antenne (fig. 1) incrassated and 
deeply excavated, with the margins of the excavation nearly entire 
and setose, but marked inwardly with several small oval transverse 
impressions. The prothorax is rather broader than the head, and 
bipartite, the anterior part with the sides obtusely angulated, and 
the dise transversely elevated, the middle being slightly inter- 
rupted ; the hinder part of the prothorax is deeply excavated in 
the middle, with the edges slender and elevated. The elytra are 
broader than the prothorax, gradually dilated to the extremities, 
and of a shining black colour, with all the margins fulvous chesnut 
and setose; the disc very delicately and widely punctured when 
seen through a lens. The four fore-feet are slender and cylindric, 
but the posterior pair have the femora and tibiz dilated and com- 
pressed ; the calearia in all the feet appear to be obsolete. 
[ Fig. 1 ¢ represents the underside of the abdomen. ] 
I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Westermann for a know- 
ledge of this Indian species, which he forwarded for my examination 
from Copenhagen. 
Species [X.—Paussus rutvus, Westw. 
(Plate 90, fig. 3.) 
Luteo-fulvus subopacus, elytris magis rufescentibus, rivuloso-rugosis, antennarum articulo 
basali, prothoracis lateribus posticis, femoribusque obscurioribus ; capite supra profunde 
rotundato-impresso. Long. corp. lin. 3. 
Syn.— Paussus fulvus, Westw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. p. 47. 
Habitat in India Orientali. In Mus. Hope et nostr. 
The head is subtriangular, and is nearly as broad as the prothorax 
behind the eyes, where it is angulated to the narrowed part or 
neck ; the anterior part is truncated and slightly emarginate, with 
an impressed line or gutter extending from the clypeus towards 
the crown, where is a large and deep circular impression with the 
margin elevated ; it is of a luteo-fulvous colour, sub-opaque, and 
finely punctured. The antennze have the basal joint punctate, and 
the clava is large broad ovate, depressed along the fore margin, which 
is slightly sinuated, the hind part of the antenne being much 
dilated and deeply excavated, with the entire margins of the 
excavation sinuated, and the base, with the outer angle produced 
