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posterior part raised above the neck into a ridge higher than the 

 anterior one, and with a median and two lateral sinuations ; median 

 part of head plane, and with a broad depression above each eye 

 partly edged by a very narrow groove which extends also along the 

 posterior raised part ; antennal club long, broad, compressed, as long 

 as the base of the prothorax, slightly curving in the inner edge, 

 which is distinctly marginate and has besides a distinct raised line 

 running parallel to it, outer margin broadly grooved from base to 

 apex, and having seven round alveolae as well as six obtuse serra- 

 tions on the upper edge, the intervals of which bear each a short 

 yellowish seta, outer basal angle of the club long and sharp ; pro- 

 thorax bipartite, the anterior part much raised, short, abruptly trun- 

 cate, deeply incised in the centre and on each side, and with a deep 

 transverse impression, the posterior part is narrower than the 

 anterior, and has the shape of a truncate cone, broadly scooped 

 out in the anterior median part, with each side of the incision 

 produced in a sharp, short tubercle ; elytra closely set with very 

 short, greyish hairs, but very indistinctly punctured ; femora not 

 clavate ; tibiae straight, not thickened. Length 6 mm. ; width 

 2-| mm. 



Hob. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Paussus schaumi, Westw., 

 Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1852, p. 94; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., 



p. 94, pi. xix., fig. 6. 

 P. novaculatus, Per., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. hi., 1885, 

 p. 84, pi. i., fig. 6. 



Head, antennae, prothorax, and legs brownish red ; elytra dark 

 blue, with a broad basal band and a narrow apical line brownish 

 red ; head with two high longitudinal ridges running from the neck 

 to the apex, finely aciculate, briefly pubescent ; antennal club com- 

 pressed, curving outwardly, distinctly pedunculate at base, as long 

 as the head and anterior part of prothorax put together, carinate in 

 the inner margin, curving outwardly, posterior part a little thicker 

 than the anterior, with the outer margin grooved from one-third of 

 the length to the basal part, the outer angle of which is short and 

 sharp, basal joint elongato-quadrate ; prothorax with the anterior 

 part in the shape of a short, broadly truncate cone, scooped on each 

 side, produced in the centre of the transverse impression in two 

 narrow ridges nearly connected across the impression with two 

 similar ones in the posterior part, which divide it into three shallow 

 cavities, the external walls of the posterior part end in a round, 

 blackish tubercle surrounded by the yellow pubescent patch, the 



