26 Mr. J. O. Westwood's Description 



March, 1845, at night, having flown to a light in a small bungalow 

 on Dr. Benson's grounds at Saharunpore, the capital of a district 

 at the head of the Doab. 



In addition to these species another very interesting species 

 from India, constituting a distinct sub-genus, was also forwarded 

 to me by Mr. Benson, of which the characters (and an accom- 

 panying figure with details) were read by me before this Society 

 a short time since (described in the preceding article^. 



Two new species of Cerapterus from Port Natal have been 

 recently obtained by the Museum of Leipzig, of which (by the 

 kindness of Dr. Schaum) I hope to be enabled to lay descriptions 

 and figures before the Society ; and lastly another new species of 

 Paussus has within the last few days been received by the Rev. 

 F. W. Hope from India, the description of which I now beg leave 

 to lay before the Society. 



Paussus Jerdani, Hope, MSS. (PI. II, fig. 1.) 



P, prothorace quasi bipartite ; antennarum clavd postice valde 

 excavati ; capitis vertice excavationibus duabus ovalibus ; 

 tuberculo elevato in singula excavatione ; rufescens, obscurus, 

 undique setulis minimis luteis obtectus ; elytris setis longis 

 numerosis rufescentibus marginatis, his etiam plagd maximd 

 postica nigra notatis. 



Long. corp. lin. 3. 



Habitat in India orientali. 



In Mus. D. Hope. 



This species is most nearly allied to Paussus Boysii, Stevensianus, 

 and especially to the well known P. thoraclcus of Donovan. Its 

 general colour is an obscure red, the anterior portion of the pro- 

 thorax and the base of the elytra being of a more fulvous colour. 

 The head is narrowed in front of the eyes, the front part termi- 

 nating in two slightly rounded and flattened divisions, the incision 

 between which is angular and terminates in a shallow channel or 

 impressed line, which extends to the crown of the head, where it 

 terminates in two deep oval impressions, placed rather obliquely 

 to each other, and each having a raised tubercle within. The 

 club of the antennae is also triangular, with the front margin acute 

 and slightly arcuated, rounded ofl^to the tip; the hinder or upper 

 margin is very deeply excavated, the excavation of an oval form, 

 with each side sulcated ; the maxillary palpi have the second joint 

 flat and broadly ovate, truncated at the tip, the two terminal joints 



