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lineatus, and Africa given as its habitat, but probably merely on 
the supposition of its being identical with Thunberg’s species. 
Fig. 2 @ represents the antenna seen from above. 
Sussection 6,—Speecies Astatice. 
Specirs XXX.—Paussus cocnatus, Westw. 
(Plate 94, fig. 3.) 
Rufo-castancus nitidus punctatus, elytrorum singulo disco nigro, capite prothorace parum angus- 
tiori clypeo haud emarginato, sulco tenui impresso et fere ad verticem ducto, hoe carina 
media et impressionibus duabus semicireularibus; antennarum clava subovata, capite haud 
majori integra subconvexa basi in spinam externe producto ; prothorace cordato-truncato 
parte antica capite paullo latiori lateribus rotundatis setosis, dorso in medio impresso 
margine postico parum latiori, pedibus subcylindricis, tibiis 2-calearatis, podice nigricanti 
punctato tuberculisque duobus minutis conicis distantibus instructo. Long corp. lin. 4. 
Habitat in India orientali Bengala. Mus. Melly et Westermann. 
Fig. 3 a represents one of the posterior tarsi. 
Species XXXI.—Paussus Hrarseranus, Westw. 
(Plate 94, fig. 4). 
Falvo-castaneus nitidus punctatus, elytrorum singulo disco late nigro, capite pone oculos carina 
elevata transversa in medio parum angulata alteraque longitudinali subobsoleta mediana 
ad nasum fere ducta clypeo subemarginato ; antennarum clava subovata basi externe in 
spinam conicam producta margineque postico supra oblique 3-impresso; prothorace margi- 
nibus antice angulato-rotundatis disco pone medium valde impresso sulcoque tenui medio 
longitudinali, abdominis segmentis integris podice ferrugineo nitido, tibiis angustis apice 
2-calcaratis. Long. corp. lin. 4. 
Habitat in India orientali. Mus. Hearsey and Boys. 
Syn.—Paussus Hearseyanus, Westw. in Proc. Linn. Soc. April 19, 1842. Boys in 
Journ. of Asiat. Soc. of Bengal N.S. No. 54, p. 427, (No. 3) tab. ann. fig. 3. 
A specimen of this species was first brought home by my friend, 
Col. Hearsey, to whom I dedicated it ; three other specimens were 
captured by Capt. Boys at Sultanpore, Benares, late on the evening 
of the 21st of June, 1840, and another on the following evening. 
Fig. 4 a represents the head seen sideways; 4 4, the maxilla 
seen from outside the mouth; 4c, ditto from within; 4d, the same 
seen obliquely from the outside, the parts indicated by marks cor- 
responding with those used in the other plates of this family; 4 e, 
one of the hind tarsi; 4 /,the antenna; 44, the mandible. 
Sprcres XXXIJ.—Pavussus Harpwicku, Westw. 
(Plate 94, fig. 5.) 
Rufo-castaneus nitidus punctatus, elytrorum singulo plaga lata longitudinali nigra, antennarum 
clava elongata lineari subcylindrica, basi externe in hamum producto apiceque rotundato 3 
clypeo subemarginato utrinque inter oculos longitudinaliter obsolete canaliculato carinaque 
tenui e vertice ad clypeum extensa, prothoracis lateribus antice rotundatis, capite haud 
latioribus ; suleo profundo transverso in medio; impressione tenui abbreviata ad marginem 
