new Species of the Coleopterous Family Paussiclce. 91 
Kollar in Annal. des Wiener Mus. der Naturg. Erst. Band. 
1836. 2 Abth. p. 336, tab. 31, f. 7 a, b. 
“ Ad species minores hujus generis pertinet. Caput suborbi- 
culare, nigrum, nitidum, sat remote punctatum, impressionibus 
duabus laevioribus in medio ; oculis lateralibus, vix pro- 
minulis, rotundatis, nigro-obscuris ; instruments cibariis fer- 
rugineis ; antennis biarticulatis, articulo baseos brevi, sub- 
cylindrico, ferrugineo, articulo 2do dilatato, sublineari apicii 
rotundato, impressionibus quatuor utrinque conspicuis, quasi 
in articulos 5 diviso, ferrugineo, segmentis duobus apicis 
nigris. Thorax sat elongatus, subquadratus, anterius multo 
latior, lateribus rotundatus, pone medium subito coarc- 
tatus, totus ferrugineus, nitidus, lineola transversa media 
profunde impressa, altera longitudinale minus profunda, nec 
marginem anticum neque posticum attingente ; hae lineolae 
crucem in medio thoracis repraesentant. Elytra thoracis 
parte antica latiora, oblonga, quadrangula, basi ipsa depressa, 
a thorace remota, subemarginata, humeris antrorsum promi- 
nulis, lateribus inflexa, immarginata, apice truncata ; abdo- 
mine breviora, convexiuscula, nigra, nitida, obsoletissime punc- 
tata, nigra, fascia baseos lata, apicis angusta, ferrugineis. Cor- 
pus subtus ferrugineum, nitidum, punctatum. Pedes nigri, 
omnes subaequales, tibiis compressis, femoribus basi tar- 
sisque totis ferrugineis.” 
Specimen unicum a Dom. Fichtel ex India Orientali Musaeo 
allatum est. — Kollar. loc. cit. 
Paussus Turcicus, Friv. Plate X. fig. 2. 
P. oblongus rufus, capite elongato, opaco, thorace transversim 
diviso, elytris nitidis, apice dilatatis truncatis, macula media 
communi longitudinali fusca. 
Long. corp. lin. 2-§. 
Habitat in montibus Turcicis “ Balkan” dictis. 
Frivaldszky, in Hungarian Trans. 1835, vol. ii. pi. 6, fig. 5. 
Platyrhopalus Melleii, Westw. Plate X. fig. 4. 
PI. piceus ; elytris castaneis latissimis, fere quadratis ; anten- 
narum clava lata compressa, margine fere circulare, basi ex- 
terne angulum efformante ; pedibus latissimis. 
Long. corp. lin. 4| ; lat. elytr. lin. 2%. 
Pl. Melleii, Westw. Lin. Tr. 16, p. 683. 
Guerin, Iconogr. Regne An. Ins. pl. 40, fig. 11. 
Of this extraordinary insect, an inhabitant of Malabar, I ob- 
