1897.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 35 



form, subquadrate, broadly emarginate in the centre, lateral part 

 spinose, posterior part depressed in the anterior part with the lateral 

 walls tuberculate ; elytra parallel and covered with a long sub- 

 flavescent pubescence ; tibiae slender. Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Albany, Sterkstroom). 



Paussus rugiceps, Per., 



Plate XIII., fig. 9. 



Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iv., 1886, p. 82, pi. i., fig. 4. 



Elytra piceous red, antennae, head, prothorax, and legs dark red ; 

 head rugose, and with a high prominence divided in two by a deep 

 groove and tuberculose at each end ; club slightly pubescent, a little 

 curved, inner margin sharp, not impressed, outer margin dilated, 

 broadly and deeply scooped out from apex to base, outer angle sharp 

 and moderately long, cavity smooth, but with five faint serrations 

 on both edges ; prothorax bipartite, anterior part laminiform, sub- 

 rectangular laterally and with the anterior face sloping, posterior 

 part only a little depressed in the central part, walls not much raised 

 and tuberculate ; elytra parallel, very finely aciculate and with 

 regular series of very short, distinct greyish hairs ; legs briefly 

 setulose ; anterior and intermediate tibiae moderately slender, pos- 

 terior ones ampliate, but not broader at the apex than at the base. 

 Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Eustenburg). 



The antennal club is nearly similar to that of P. Degeeri. 



Paussus degeeri, Westw., 

 Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1855, p. 82; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon, 



p. 93, pi. xviii., fig. 12. 



Fulvous, elytra finely punctured and covered with very short 

 yellowish setae ; head moderately wide and having two small rounded 

 equidistant tubercles between the eyes ; antennal club oblong, 

 curved, anterior margin sharp, rounded at apex, posterior one 

 grooved, the groove elongate, subpyriform, the upper edge with five 

 small rounded tubercles, lower edge a little wider than the upper 

 and simple ; prothorax sub-bipartate, anterior part hardly broader 

 than the head, angular, raised, subemarginate in the middle with the 

 outer sides angular, posterior part narrower and with the outer sides 

 raised and parallel, grooved tranversely at about the median part, 

 but not deeply, and having in the middle two contiguous tubercles ; 

 elytra much larger than the prothorax, subparallel ; legs elongate, 

 slender. Length 6 \ mm. 



Hab. Caffraria. 



