1897.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 31 



one, which is slightly narrower ; elytra parallel and covered with 

 densely set shallow setigerous punctures ; tibiae slender. Length 

 4f-5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Baffray is of opinion that P. cultratus and P. plinii are two 

 different species, which he distinguishes by the shape of the antennal 

 club which is nearly alike, but "in P. plinii it is longer, narrower, 

 and more falciform, decreasing gradually from base to tip, and the 

 more regular curve belongs to a circle of a wider diameter, and, 

 therefore, the point is longer, more slender and sharper, while 

 in P. cultratus the club looks like an elongate square with the sides 

 nearly parallel as far as the tip, which is suddenly curved to form a 

 shorter and more obtuse point." He adds that he possessed the two 

 species. 



It is quite true that the figure given by Westwood of the club of 

 P. cultratus is broader in proportion to the length than that of 

 P. plinii, and that I have not seen any example as yet absolutely 

 similar, but I think that the latter as differentiated by my excellent 

 friend Baffray is the male, and that Westwood has exaggerated the 

 width of the club in his figure of P. cultratus.^ 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban, Maritzburg, Estcourt, Frere), Transvaal 

 (Potchefstroom, Pretoria). 



Paussus granulatus, Westw., 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, ii., 1849, p. 58 ; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 86, 



pi. xvii., fig. 5. 



Light, testaceous glabrous, moderately shining ; head granulose 

 and with two small rounded depressions, one on each side of the 

 ocelli ; first joint of antennae swollen at base, a little attenuate at tip, 

 club rounded, swollen at base and tapering gradually into a sharp 

 point with a seta at tip, falcate, and without any basal outer angle ; 

 prothorax bipartite, anterior part nearly perpendicular, narrow, 

 emarginate in the middle, and also, but not so deeply, laterally, 

 median excavation very wide, posterior part excavate and with only 

 the lateral subtuberculate walls left ; elytra subelongato-quadrate 

 and with a supra-lateral, deep and broad groove running from the 

 humeral angle to the apex, carinate outwardly, and with a faint 

 silky white tinge, the discoidal part of the elytra is granulose and 

 darker than the general colour, and the sides are not so closely 

 granulose ; the inner edge of the intermediate and posterior tibiae are 

 sinuate inwardly, the latter inflated. Length 4 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown), Transvaal 

 (Pretoria). 



*Dr. G. A. Dohrn has expressed also (Zur, Literat. d. Pauss. Stett. Ent. 

 1887, Zeit., p. 317) an opinion similar to mine. 



