34 Descriptive Catalogue [1897. 



towards the hind part of the eyes ; basal joint of antennae broad, 

 subquadrate, club laminiform for half the length, apical part of the 

 outer margin dilated, scooped out, and having internally five striae 

 with rounded intervals serrating the lower edge, and also, but in a 

 lesser degree the upper one, outer basal angle moderately long and 

 sharp ; prothorax bipartite, the anterior one lenticular and emarginate 

 in the centre and laterally, posterior one depressed in the centre, 

 walls sharp and not tuberculate ; elytra subparallel ; tibiae of all legs 

 compressed and broad. Length 5 J mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom), Natal (Estcourt), Cape Colony 

 (Uitenhage). 



Paussus viator, Per., 



Plate XII., fig. 4; Plate XIII., fig. 19. 



Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 151. 



Piceous black, opaque, with the antennae and legs very dark red ; 

 head with three short impressions in the middle of the vertex, the 

 median one of which is the deepest and is bounded by two short 

 ridges ; inner margin of the club sharp, quadri-impressed, a little 

 sinuate at tip, the outer one dilated, broadly scooped out from apex to 

 base with the outer basal angle moderately long and sharp ; the 

 cavity of the outer margin has six striae, the rounded intervals of 

 which serrulate the two edges ; prothorax bipartite, with the anterior 

 part lenticular and incised in the centre, posterior part long, lateral 

 walls sloping towards the transverse incision, median part slightly 

 incised longitudinally ; elytra parallel, nearly glabrous ; tibiae, 

 compressed, broad, the posterior ones much dilated. Length 5 mm. ; 

 width 1|- mm. 



Hab. Natal (Frere, Estcourt). 



Paussus burchellianus, Westw., 



Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 319; Thesaur. Entom. 



Oxon., p. 92, pi. xvii. fig. 10. 



Chestnut brown, moderately shining ; head pubescent, plane in 

 the centre, but raised in a small protuberance behind, apex raised in 

 a transverse ridge ; club carinate for half its length in the inner 

 margin and with three marginal impressions, the basal one of which 

 is broader and deeper than the others, outer margin broadly dilate 

 and scooped out, and having five deep striae extending from one edge 

 to the other with the intervals raised, rounded, serrating both 

 the edges, those on the lower one slightly penicillate at tip, outer 

 basal angle very long and cylindrical ; prothorax briefly pubescent, 

 bipartite, anterior part perpendicular with the median part lamini- 



