new Species of the Coleopterous Family Paussidee. 89 
Co/jwf subovale, depression, antice emarginatum, postice in collum 
breve angustatum, linea impressa e medio emarginationis ad 
medium verticis extensd. Antennee ferrugineae, clava ad 
basin valde compressaet externe in spinam producta ; mavgine 
antico omni acuto, dimidio apicali marginis postici dilatato, 
excavato, cocbleario ; margineejus postico impressionibus qua- 
tuor longitudinalibus, lobos totidem formantibus. Mentum 
dente centrali fere obliterato. Thorax capite vix major, bi- 
partitus, parte antica lateribus angulatis et postice elevata ; 
parte postica angulo ejus antico laterali prorninente, trans- 
versa, et in medio valde impressa, tuberculis duobus minutis 
centralibus. Elytra oblonga thorace duplo latiora, ad hu- 
meros impressa, postice truncata, angulo apicali utrinque 
laterali tuberculato, ferruginea, subnitida, setis flavescen- 
tibus induta, setis in lineas irregulares dispositis. Abdominis 
segmenta integra. Pedes satis elongati, tibiis praesertim 
dilatatis ; tarsis brevibus, 5-articulatis. 
Fig. 6 a, b. Antennae in different positions. 
Paussus armatus, Westw. Mon. Linn. Tr. 16, 646. Tab. 33. 
f. 62. Plate IX. fig. 7 a, b, c. 
Having examined a specimen of this species now in the collec- 
tion of the Rev. F. W. Hope from Sierra Leone, especially with 
reference to its trophi, the doubts which I expressed in my Mo- 
nograph as to the propriety of placing it in the genus Paussus are 
removed, there being no important variation beyond specific dis- 
tinctions to separate it from the other species of that genus. 
The insect figured by Guerin in his Magazin de Zoologie, In- 
sectes, pi. 49, and details, fig. 1 b, and 1 c, under the name of 
Paussus cornutus, Chevrolat, is identical with my Paussus armatus, 
as indeed M. Chevrolat had ascertained, the latter name being now 
attached to it in his collection. It is from Senegal. 
Paussus curvicornis, Chevrolat. Plate X. fig. 1. 
This species, figured by Guerin in his Iconographie du Regne 
Animal, Insectes, pi. 40, fig. 8 and 8 a, is founded upon an insect 
partially figured in the Mag. de Zool. Ins. pi. 49, and therein 
considered as a doubtful variety of the P cornutus of Chevrolat 
(P. armatus). The details are therein represented in plate 4 9, 
fig. 1 a, 2, and 2 a. 
More recently M. Chevrolat has communicated a note to M. 
Guerin, (Rev. Zool. No. 2, page 21,) containing the following 
description. 
