90 OrpER—COLEOPTERA. Section—PENTAMERA. 
Spectres 22 (44)—PAUSSUS (A b*) WATERHOUSII. 
Prats XVI, Fic. 4. 
Rufo-piceus, haud nitidus, tenue et minute punctatus et subgranulatus: capite antice profunde emarginato 
(fig. 4c), vertice excavatione polita, rotundata, lateribus elevatis acutis, canali frontali conjuncta (fig. 42, capite 
e latere viso); antennarum clava longitudine capite et prothorace zquali, longa, plana, punctata, lateribus 
fere parallelis, postice excavatione valde angusta longitudinem totam occupante, marginibus tuberculis 5 xqui- 
distantibus instructis (fig. 4a); apice rotundato, basi truncata angulo externo vix producto; collo angusto ; 
prothorace bipartito, parte antica capite latiori utrinque angulata, et transverse elevata, acumine in medio inter- 
rupto, parte postica angustiori lateribus fere rectis; medio disci profunde impresso, lateribus impressionis 
elevatis et subacute angulatis, intus setosis; elytrorum humeris elevatis; lateribus setis mediocribus piceis 
vestitis; disco singuli versus suturam ante medium impressione ovali nigricanti nitida notato ; pedibus sub- 
longis angustis concoloribus ; tibiis compressis ; elytris apice subfulvis. 
Long. corp. lin, 34. 
Habitat; Penang. In Mus. Britann. 
This species is closely allied to P. hystrix, but differs in its obscure colour, in the shape of the clava of 
the antenne, and its longitudinal excavation, as well as in the form of the impression of the dise of the hind 
part of the thorax. 
Species 23 (45)—PAUSSUS (A a*) SPENCII. 
(Westw. Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. January, 1864, 3rd Ser. vol. i. p. 190.) 
Puate XVIII, Fic. 8. 
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Oblongus, subdepressus, subnitidus, castaneo-rufus: elytris, basi apiceque exceptis, nigris; minute punc- 
tatis, punctis setas luteas emittentibus; capite antice emarginato, et impressione longitudinali notato; anten- 
narum clava reniformi, subdepressa, margine antico acuto, postico supra in medio impressione semi-ovali dis- 
tincto; prothorace capitis latitudine, bipartito, angulis lateralibus partis antice rotundatis, disco hujus partis 
inermi, medio prothoracis excavatione profunda impressa; elytris subangustis; femoribus tibiisque omnibus 
compressis sublatis. 
Long. corp. lin, 23. 
Habitat ; India Orientalis (?). In Mus. Hopeiano Oxoniz. 
Species 24 (46)—PAUSSUS (A b**) AFZELII. 
(Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol. iii. 2nd Ser. p. 82, 1855.) 
Puate XVII, Fie. 6. 
Fulvus, vix nitidus, tenuissime scaber: elytris nigris, basi sutura apiceque fulvis, luteo-setosis; capite 
antice oblique declivi, parte postica capitis semicirculariter et abrupte depressa; antennarum claya oblonga 
curvata subcultrata, margine antico acuto, apice rotundato, margine postico canaliculato, canali elongato angusto, 
pagina ejus superiori tuberculis sex minutis, impressionibus totidem transversis conjunctis; pagina inferiori 
parum sinuata integra; prothorace capite parum angustiori subbipartito, parte antica longiori, lateribus rotun- 
datis, in medio supra canali longitudinali fortiter impresso, medio disci fossula trigona impresso, antice utrinque 
tuberculo parvo rotundato instructo, parte postica sensim latiori; lateribus obliquis; elytris prothorace multo 
latioribus, lateribus subparallelis; pedibus angustis compressis; corpore infra obscurius fulvo; palpis maxilla- 
ribus articulo seeundo magno ovato, labialibus articulo ultimo ovali apice subacuto. 
Long corp. lin. 3. 
Habitat ; Caffraria (D. Wahlberg). In Mus. Reg. Holm. 
Syy.: Paussus letus. Gerstaecker in Stettin Zeit. 1867, p. 430. 
