24 Mr. J. O. Westwood's Description 



VI. Description of another new Species of Paussus, from 

 India, with Notes of other additional Species. By J. O. 

 Westwood, F.L.S., Sec.Ent. Soc, &c. 



[Read 3d August, 1846.] 



Notwithstanding all the exertions which I made to render my 

 illustrated monograph of the Pauss'idce, published in the second 

 volume of the Arcana Entomologica, as complete as possible, it is 

 surprising that, in the few months which have elapsed since the 

 completion of that work, no fewer than eight distinct species re- 

 quire to be added to the list. Four of these have been described 

 by Mr. Benson, in a paper published in the Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal. 



Notices of the captures of these species have from time to time 

 been read at previous meetings of this Society, in communications 

 addressed to me by Mr. Benson ; and as many members of the 

 Society may not have the opportunity of consulting Mr. Benson's 

 memoir, I here extract the short Latin characters which he has 

 given of his four new species. 



Sp. 1. Paussus Baconis, Benson. 



(Section A. Prothorax quasi bipartitus.) 



(Sub-sect. a. Antennarum clava postice baud excavata.) 



P. livido-succineus ; antennarum articulo basali, clavae angulis 

 margineque, prothoracis lateribus posticis, femoribus, podice, 

 elytrorumque plaga magna communi, piceis; abdomineelytro- 

 rumque marginibus, tibiis tarsisque castaneis ; antennarum 

 clavd obliquo-triangulari, basi emarginata, in spinam longio- 

 rem externe product^, postice late impressa, cavamine rugoso. 



Nearly allied to P. riifitarsis ; but instead of the four short tufts 

 of hair on each side, and two at the apex, the elytra are margined 

 with long recurved spinous setae, sometimes double, of which there 

 are seven on each side, and a double row, with four in each row, 

 at the apex of each elytron. 



Taken by Dr. J. F. Bacon in the Dehra Dlioon, at the foot of 

 the sub-Himalayan range, between the Ganges and Jumna, on the 

 14th August, 1844, in a sweeping net, among grass and bushes, at 

 the same time as a specimen of Paussus pilicornis. 



