1897.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 29 



surface of the whole prothorax is distinctly though very briefly 

 pubescent ; elytra subparallel very finely aciculate and with a few 

 scattered very short hairs ; legs moderately slender ; pygidium 

 not incised in the posterior margin. Length 8 mm. ; width 

 3i-3i mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Vaal River). 



Paussus germari, Westw., 



Plate XIII. , fig. 14. 



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



p. 94, pi. xix., fig. 2. 



The only difference between P. schaumi and P. germari seems to 

 consist in the shape of the antennal club, which is a little shorter, a 

 little narrowed towards the apical part and slightly less curved 

 outwardly owing to the outer margin being slightly straighter, the 

 base of the club is much less conspicuously pedunculate, and the 

 space between the two occipital ridges has a faint triangular im- 

 pression, a trace of which is found in P. schaumi ; the sculpture 

 and shape and colour of prothorax and elytra are the same as in 

 schaumi. Length 6^- mm. ; width 2-|- mm. 



Hab. Natal, teste Westwood. 



This species occurs also in Abyssinia ; a specimen from that 

 locality agrees very well with Westwood' s figure, except that the 

 clava is entirely reddish brown. 



Paussus lineatus, Thunb., 



Plate XIII., fig. 5. 



Act. Holm., 1781, p. 171, pi. hi., figs. 4-5. 



P. parrianus, Westw., Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1847, p. 29, 

 pi. ii., fig. 3 ; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 91, pi. xvii., fig. 7. 



Dark red, moderately shining ; elytra blue black, broadly edged 

 all round with dark red ; head flat on the vertex, but with the 

 margins raised all round, slightly aciculate and very briefly 

 pubescent, neck very distinct ; antennal club much recurved, as 

 long as the head and the anterior part of the prothorax together 

 anterior margin sharp and carinate, posterior part thicker, outer 

 margin carinate from the apex to one-fourth of the length, deeply 

 scooped from there to the base, the outer angle of which ends in a 

 sharp, long spur, the upper edge of the scooped margin has four 

 striations with raised intervals serrating the edge, the lower edge 

 is not dented, and between the end of the groove and the apex there 

 is a small rounded marginal semicircular projection ; the first joint 



