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POSTCRIPT. 



[The species described below belongs to the genus Paussus, Linn. 

 See page 15.] 



PAUSSUS ELIZABETHS. 



Ferruginous red, moderately shining ; head foveate, the fovere 

 shallow and bearing a short greyish seta, vertex with a slightly conical 

 protuberance in the posterior part and two parallel elongate, ocelli- 

 like, deep pits, with smooth raised edges in front of the conical 

 protuberance, and in the centre of the vertex ; basal joint of antennae 

 very rugose and bristly, club swollen, anterior margin compressed, 

 narrow, the anterior edge with a series of yellowish distant seta3 on 

 each side, upper part with three deep transverse impressions situated 

 between the base and the median part, posterior margin broadly 

 dilated and deeply scooped, with the basal angle sharp but moderately 

 long, both the upper and lower edges of excavation are symmetrical, 

 but the upper edge has six serrations and the lower one five only, and 

 less conspicuous, the concave part has six broad grooves on each side ; 

 thorax rugose, setulose, anterior part in the shape of a disk, very 

 narrowly incised in the centre, and angular laterally, posterior part 

 with the lateral walls sloping, and the median part raised in the centre 

 and grooved longitudinally ; elytra rugulose, and with closely set series 

 of moderately long flavescent hairs, outer margins of pygidium clothed 

 with long decumbent pale flavescent hairs ; tibiae of all legs compressed 

 and dilated. Length 4| mm. ; width 1^ mm. 



Allied to P. cucullatKs, and disticguished at once by the shape of the 

 ocelli and the subconical protuberance on the vertex of the head ; the 

 antennal club is of nearly the same shape, but not so broad outwardly, 

 and the anterior margin is narrower, and has three transverse im- 

 pressions instead of four, and the edge of the lower margin of the 

 excavation does not project beyond the upper edge as it does in 

 P. cucallatus ; it differs also by the setulose elytra, and the fringe of 

 decumbent hairs on the outer margins of the pygidium. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). Captured by Dr. Brauns. 



