1897.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 37 



Paussus barkeri, Per., 



Plate XII., fig. 5; Plate XIII., fig. 13. 



Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 152. 



Beddish brown with very short pubescence all over ; head with 

 two median caringe aculeate in front and overlapping the point of 

 insertion of antennae, these two ridges diverge slightly from the 

 middle of the vertex and have a narrow groove ceasing abruptly 

 above the neck, which is very short and not constricted ; basal joint 

 of antennae quadrate, very thick ; club moderately long, not com- 

 pressed, deeply sinuate in the inner part, which, like the rounded 

 apical part, is acutely marginate, outer part also sinuate and having 

 on the margin four very distinct teeth bearing several very short 

 setae, while the apical angle is developed into a long, broad, blunt 

 spur, the inner part of which curves so as to form a short tooth 

 corresponding to a similar tooth situated on the opposite part of the 

 base ; the joints of the antennae are covered with closely set, very 

 short, squamiform hairs ; prothorax bipartite, the anterior part 

 ridged, slightly grooved in the centre, posterior part as broad as 

 the anterior with a broad median depression nearly reaching the 

 base ; elytra subparallel, covered with very short, closely set hairs, 

 apparently thicker than those on the prothorax and without punc- 

 tures ; pygidium thickly pubescent and with a fringe of long, 

 thickly set, yellowish hairs ; anterior and intermediate femora and 

 tibiae slender, posterior femora and tibiae dilated and compressed. 

 Length 9 mm. ; width 3-§- mm. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban). 



Paussus curtisi, Westw., 

 Proc. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1864, p. 190; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., 

 p. 84, pi. xviii., fig. 11 ; Baffray, Mater. Etude Pauss., p. 32 

 pi. viii., figs. 35, 36. 



Chestnut brown, subopaque, glabrous ; head with two sharp, 

 median ridges in the anterior part uniting in the centre with the 

 apex of a bisinuate, subtriangular one which reaches from side to 

 side in the posterior part, and another but shorter one in the base 

 adjoining the neck, there is also a lateral one running above the eye, 

 these ridges enclose thus three deep impressions in the anterior part 

 and two smaller ones in the posterior ; the genae are distinctly acu- 

 leate ; antennae densely squamiform, basal joint elongato-quadrate 

 club long, slender, cylindrical, curving, slightly thickened at the tip, 

 which is carinate, outer margin with a very short groove and two 

 small teeth at the apex only, base deeply incised, outer angle blunt ; 

 prothorax bipartite, anterior part in the shape of a broadly truncate 



