Species of the Coleopterous Family PaussidcB. 23 



characterized, so as to allow the introduction therein of the pre- 

 sent new species as follows. 



Ante7ince clava depressa, quasi 5-partit&. Palpi maxillares arti- 

 culo 2ndo maximo, 4to gracili, preecedente minori. Palpi 

 /aija^es articulis tribus ; 3tio majori, ovali, apice subtruncato. 

 Pedes baud dilatati ; tibiis apice baud calcaratis, tarsorum 

 articulo basali sequentibus tribus majori. 



Sectio A. Ceratoderus. 

 Corpus supra glabrum, nitidum. Palpi noaxillares articulo 2ndo 

 subovali, lateribus subparallelis. Prothorax cordato-trunca- 

 tus. Tibiae apicibus externe angulatis. 



Sp. 1. Ceratoderus bifasciatus, VVestw. Kollar. {Paussus b.) 

 Sectio B. Merismoderus. 



Corpus supra opacum, plaga media elytrorum polita. Palpi 

 maxillares articulo 2ndo fere rotundato, depresso. Protho- 

 rax bipartitus, lateribus angulatis. Tibiae apicibus externe 

 obtuse truncatis. 



Sp. 2. Merismoderus Bensoni, Westvv. (PI. II. fig. 2.) 

 Luteo-fulvus, opacus, capite punctulato, supra impressionibus 

 duabus rotundatis inter oculos alteraque versus medium mar- 

 ginis antici ; prothorace bipartito, parte antica angulis anticis 

 productis subacutis, parte postica quasi 4-lobata; elytris cori- 

 aceis, singulo versus medium plaga magna nigra irregulariter 

 triangnlari ad suturam baud extensa, disco nitidissimo macu- 

 laque parva communi nigra ad apicem suturse, lateribus 

 setulosis. 

 Long. corp. lin. 3. 



Habitat in India oriental!. D. Benson. Mus. Westw. and Hope. 



" I took two specimens under a brick near the river Ganges, 



about fifty miles below Cawnpore, last year (1844), and this year 



(1845), in January, I took one under a stone, in a black ant's nest, 



between the Savalik range and Saharumpore." (Benson in litt.) 



Fig. 2. Merismoderus Benso7ii ; 2 a, b, c, maxillje in various points of view ; 

 2d, labial palpus ; 2e, portion of the hind margin of the antennae ; 

 2f, tarsus. 



