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YII. Descriptions of neio genera and species of Goleoptera 

 from South Africa, chiefly from Zamhezia. By 

 Louis Peringuey, F.E.S. 



[Read March 4th, ISDG.] 



Family PAUSSIDiE. 



Gen. Padssus, Linn, 



P. arduus, n. sp. 



Red, shining ; head with a long conical tubercle on the vertex, 

 anterior part dehiscent, hairless and slightly punctured in the 

 posterior part ; club of antennas short, thick, convex on both sides, 

 broader than the head, carinate all round, depressed at the base, 

 with the outer angle produced in a long, sharp, slightly recurving 

 spine, upper posterior margin without any longitudinal im- 

 pressions ; prothorax smooth, longer than broad, with a deep trans- 

 verse impression reaching from side to side and having a yellow 

 pubescent patch at each end, the anterior and posterior part of the 

 disk equally broad, the anterior a little more raised than the pos- 

 terior, the sides nearly parallel ; elytra elongate, sub-parallel, smooth 

 and very closely punctured, the punctures in the anterior part being 

 deeper and broader than those behind ; pygidium very closely and 

 deeply punctured ; femora not clavate ; tibiae slender, not dilated 

 at the tip. Length 8, width 2^ mm. 



Belongs to the same group as P. spinicoxis, P. thomsoni, 

 etc. The shape of the club is nearly the same as in the 

 last mentioned species, but much more convex on each 

 side ; the prothorax resembles that of P. spinicoxis, but 

 is less attenuate laterally in the anterior part. 



Hah. Zambezia (Manica). 



P. manicanus, n. sp. 



Reddish-brown, shining ; head much depressed, nearly smooth 

 and hairless ; club of antennas twice as long as the head and neck, 

 nearly oblong, a little narrower at the apex and base than in the 

 middle, compressed but thicker in the median part, bluntly 

 carinate all round and with the posterior angle produced in a 

 sharp moderately recurved spine : prothorax nearly cordiform, but 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1896. — PART II. (jUNE.) 



