38 Descriptive Catalogue [1897. 



cone, broadly emarginate in the middle, posterior part divided by a 

 deep, narrow, transverse groove, deeply impressed up to the base, 

 lateral walls not tuberculate ; elytra elongate, glabrous ; tibiae very 

 little compressed, nearly cylindrical ; legs densely squamiform. 

 Length 8 mm. ; width 2^- mm. 



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

 (Port Elizabeth) ; occurs also in Abyssinia. 



Paussus cylindricornis, Per., 

 Plate XIII., fig. 1. 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, hi., 1885, p. 81, pi. i., fig. 2. 



Beddish brown, subopaque ; head slightly squamose with two 

 median ridges reaching from the apex to the posterior part, which 

 is slightly raised and has two contiguous pits on each side of the 

 head, and running above the eye is a shorter ridge running from the 

 neck to some distance from the apex ; eyes prominent and not 

 bordered by the genae ; antennas densely squamose, basal joint short, 

 quadrate, club long, nearly cylindrical, a little compressed at the tip, 

 which is very slightly ampliate and carinate in the rounded part, 

 base not incised, outer angle moderately long and sharp ; prothorax 

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

 widely emarginate in the middle and shorter than the posterior one, 

 which is broadly grooved longitudinally in the centre, both parts are 

 slightly squamose; elytra elongate, parallel and covered with densely 

 set, squamiform, subflavescent hairs ; legs bristly ; tibiae linear. 

 Length 8f mm. ; width 2-| mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Eustenburg), Bechuanaland. 



Paussus schuckakdi, Westw., 

 Proc. Entom. Soc. Lond., ii., p. 87, pi. ix., fig. 4; Arcana Entom., 

 vol. ii., p. 187, pi. xcii., fig. 5; Baffray, Mater. Etud. Pauss., 

 p. 32, pi. viii., figs. 30, 31. 



Eeddish brown, subopaque ; head grooved in the central parts with 

 the edges of the groove rounded, raised and reaching the posterior 

 part, above the eye there is also a small ridge on each side, and the 

 space between this supra-ocular ridge and the median one is de- 

 pressed, genae projecting a little ; antennae densely squamiform, 

 basal joint thick, elongato-quadrate, club quite cylindrical, not quite 

 truncate at tip, the apical margin carinulate ; prothorax deeply im- 

 pressed tranversely in the middle but not exactly bipartite, anterior 

 part nearly rounded but still slightly more raised than the posterior, 

 which has a moderately broad, not very deep longitudinal impression; 

 elytra elongate, subparallel with squamiform hairs not densely set ; 



