36 Descriptive Catalogue [1897. 



I have not met yet with this species, and the description here 

 given is culled from Westwood's. 



Paussus burmeisteri, Westw., 



Plate XIII., fig. 16. 



Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., ii., p. 86, pi. ix., fig. 3 ; Arcana Entom., 



vol. ii., p. 171, pi. lxxxix., fig. 2. 



Opaque and set with squamiform hairs ; head, antennae, prothorax, 

 and legs dark brown ; elytra deep chestnut brown ; head with an 

 occipital protuberance with a narrow rounded ridge enclosing a 

 small pit ; club thick, longer than broad, carinate all round, inner 

 margin slightly bi-impressed, the outer one strongly bisinuate, apical 

 part of the upper surface deeply and broadly scooped transversely 

 near the apical part, the lower edge of the cavity slightly serrulate 

 and very deeply impressed at about the median part, outer basal 

 angle short and sharp ; prothorax bipartite, anterior part in the 

 shape of a broadly truncate cone, incised in the middle, posterior 

 part with a very deep median impression and with four small 

 tubercles, two in the middle and one at the apex of each lateral 

 wall ; elytra subparallel, set with distant seriated squamiform hairs ; 

 all tibiae dilated, the posterior ones broader than the others. 

 Length 6 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Paussus linnei, Westw., 



Plate XIII., fig. 18. 



Trans. Linn. Soc, xvi., p. 634, pi. xxxiii., fig. 22; Arcana Entom., ii., 



p. 169, pi. lxxxviii., fig. 4. 



Chestnut brown, head and prothorax a little darker, hind part of 

 the head raised in a small prominence containing two small pits 

 close to one another and with edges carinate ; basal joint of antennae 

 thick, elongato-quadrate ; club thick, broad at the base, which is 

 sinuate, with the outer angle sharp but not spinose, inner margin 

 compressed, outer part swollen and broadly and deeply scooped out 

 transversely between the apex and the median part, the excavation 

 is concave and the external wall thin, incurved, and slightly pubes- 

 cent along the edge ; prothorax bipartite, anterior part lenticular, 

 very slightly emarginate in the centre and subsquamose, posterior 

 part deeply excavate in the middle and with two small median and 

 one lateral subtuberculiform processes ; elytra subparallel, shining, 

 subsquamiform ; legs slightly pubescent ; all tibiae compressed, 

 somewhat broad, but not dilated. Length 4 mm. ; width 1J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Oudtshoorn). 



