26 Descriptive Catalogue [1897. 



spine ; prothorax constricted laterally past the median part and 

 with a shallow median transverse impression, having a very small 

 flavescent patch on each side but not incising the lateral parts, the 

 anterior part is depressed, hardly more raised than the posterior, and 

 has a median longitudinal shallow impression, the posterior part is 

 nearly plane, and not impressed in the centre ; elytra parallel deeply 

 and closely punctured, each puncture bearing a very short, flavescent 

 seta ; femora a little swollen ; tibiae slender. Length 8J— 9 mm. ; 

 width 3 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Manica, Buluwayo). 



P. inermis, Gerstack, 

 Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 268; Peter's Eeis. n. Mossamb., 1862, 

 p. 268, pi. xv., fig. 12 ; Westw., Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 95, 

 pi. xix., fig. 5. 



Reddish brown, moderately shining ; head plane ; antennal club 

 subovate, but deeply emarginate in the posterior margin near the 

 apex, carinate all round, not grooved behind, basal part nearly 

 straight, but with a narrow transverse incision in the outer apical 

 angle, the external part of which is produced in a moderately long 

 recurved spine ; prothorax elongato-cordate, faintly impressed trans- 

 versely at about the median part, anterior part convex, posterior 

 part not depressed ; elytra subparallel, very closely and finely 

 punctured and briefly pubescent ; tibiae slender. Length 8 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Tette). 



This description is made from the figure in Westwood's 

 ' Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis.' I am not aware that this 

 Paussus has been met with since its capture by Dr. Peters, 1842- 

 1848. The type is in the Berlin Museum. 



Paussus aristoteli, Jas. Thorns., 

 Archiv. Entom., i., 1856, p. 403, pi. xxi., fig. 2. 

 " Light chestnut brown ; head projecting, strongly and suddenly 

 depressed behind ; eyes large, rounded ; basal joint of antennae 

 elongate, second very large, dilate, subconical, or claviform, wider 

 at the base which has a curved spine in the outer angle ; prothorax 

 subcordiform, wider in the middle with the anterior angles rounded, 

 divided in the middle by a transverse line, median longitudinal line 

 not much noticeable ; elytra at least three times as long as the pro- 

 thorax and broader at the base, rounded at the humeral angle, nearly 

 truncate at the apex, and with two slight projections on the suture 

 after about the fourth part of the length, dorsal part slightly punc- 



