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XII. Descriptions of Four New Species of Beetles, belong- 

 ing to the Family Paussidae. By J. O. Westwood, 

 F.L.S., &c. 



[Read 3rd July, 1854.] 



Having recently, by the kindness of Professor Boheman and 

 Herr Dohrn, become acquainted with four new species o^ Paussidce, 

 I have considered it would be useful to publish their characters, 

 by way of supplement to the article upon that family contained 

 in the 2nd volume of the New Series of our Transactions (p. 84), 

 the number of species described in the family now extending to 

 89. Three of the species are natives of CafFraria, whence they 

 were brought by Wahlberg, and are now contained in the Royal 

 Museum of Stockholm ; the fourth is a native of Ceylon, col- 

 lected by Neitner, and is in the collection of Herr Dohrn himself. 

 All the species belong to the genus Paussus. 



Section A. Prothorax quasi bipartitus. 

 Sub-section b. Antennarum clava postice excavata. 

 Divis.* Species Asiatica. 

 Sp. 48* (55). Paussus imcifcus, Westw. n. s. 

 P. castaneus, tenue punctatus et vage luteo-setosus, lateribus 

 pronoti postice elytrorumque disco late nigris nitidis, femori- 

 bus obscuris, capite inter oculos tuberculo depresso semi- 

 circular! instructo, antennarum clava subovata, margine antico 

 subrecto acuto, disco utrinque ad basin longitudinaliter 

 impresso, margine postico excavato, pagina superiori excava- 

 tionis recta, inferiori denticulis minutis 6 striolisque totidem 

 transversis notata ; prothorace sub-bipartito, parte antica 

 capite paullo latiori elevata, in medio longitudinaliter parum 

 impressa, lateribus obliquis et obtusis, medio pronoti fossula 

 transversa brevi impresso; parte postica, ejusdem latitudinis 

 lateribus integris, sensim angustatis ; elytris prothorace 

 multo latioribus, punctis minutissimis vix impressis, lateribus 

 setis rubris curvatis brevibus marginatis, nigris, nitidis, basi, 

 lateribus apiceque castaneis, podice castaneo, margine ele- 

 vate nigro ; pedibus gracilibus, obscure castaneis, tibiis 

 posticis brevioribus latioribus 3 palporum maxillarium pice- 

 orum articulo 2ndo maximo fere circulari, palpis labialibus 

 gracilibus sub-filiformibus fiilvis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 2f. 

 Habitat Ceylon. D. Neitner. In Mus. Dohrn. 



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