1897.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 25 



part of the outer margin, which is grooved, although neither deeply 

 nor broadly, from the emargination to the outer angle, which is 

 produced in a long, triangular spur ; prothorax cleft in two by a very 

 deep groove, having a small flavescent patch on each side ; anterior 

 part setose, much raised, thick, sloping towards the neck, and con- 

 stricted laterally ; posterior part deeply excavated in the central part, 

 and bituberculate on each side ; elytra subparallel, punctured, 

 punctures deep and setigerous ; tibiae slender, arcuate ; femora 

 strongly clavate, and very slender at base. Length 5 mm. ; width 

 14 mm. 



Hob. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Paussus bohemani, Westw., 

 Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1855, p. 83 ; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., 



p. 93, pi. xviii., fig. 9. 



Light brick-red, turning to flavescent in the elytra ; head pubescent, 

 and with the whole posterior part raised in a sharp, conical spine ; 

 anfcennal club shining, briefly pubescent, thick, semicircular in the 

 inner part, which is not carinate and ends in a sharp point at the 

 apex, outer margin narrowly but deeply grooved from the apical 

 recurved spine to a short distance from the basal angle, which is 

 produced in a long, slightly recurved spine ; prothorax cleft in two 

 by a very deep transverse groove, having a small flavescent patch on 

 each side, anterior part much raised, compressed, thin, nearly 

 perpendicular, carinate at tip, and has a very long pubescence, 

 posterior part deeply excavate in the central part, and bituberculate 

 on each side (Westwood, loc. cit., has given a good side-view figure 

 of the prothorax of this species, but the prothorax of the insect 

 (fig. 9) is not at all correct) ; elytra punctulate, each puncture bearing 

 a very long hair ; pygidium with a long pubescence ; tibiae arcuate, 

 femora strongly clavate, and very slender at base. Length 5J- mm. ; 

 width 2 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley). 



Paussus manicanus, Per., 

 Plate XII. , fig. 2 ; Plate XIII. , fig. 4. 

 Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 119. 

 Eeddish brown, shining : head quite flat and smooth on the 

 vertex ; antennal club glabrous, shining, long as the head and pro- 

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

 middle, compressed but thick in the median part, carinate all round 

 and with the posterior angle produced in a sharp, moderately recurved 



