376 Descriptive Catalogue [1898. 



Gen. PAUSSUS, 



Catal., p. 15. 

 Paussus natalis, 

 Plate XI., fig. 14. 



Light testaceous-red with a broad, dorsal, bluish-black patch on each 

 elytron beginning at about two-thirds of the length, and disconnected 

 with suture and outer and posterior margins. Head aciculate, very 

 briefly pubescent, scooped out on the vertex, the excavation with a 

 slight median groove, posterior wall more raised than the lateral 

 ones, neck short ; eyes without posterior canthus ; antennal club 

 twice as long as broad, curving apically for about one-quarter of the 

 length, with the inner margin slightly sinuate in the middle and 

 sharp ; the outer part is nearly straight from the rounded apical part 

 to about one-third of the length where it widens and thickens, and 

 has four deep striae extending from about the median part of the 

 upper surface, the intervals of which are convex and conspicuous, 

 the outer margin is grooved only in the thickened part, the groove 

 moderately broad and sinuate ; prothorax pubescent, bi-partite, the 

 anterior part rounded laterally and very bluntly tuberculate in the 

 median part which is hardly incised, posterior part with a small 

 black lateral tubercle at apex, bi-impressed, with the lateral walls 

 hardly defined ; elytra slightly shagreened and clothed with a dense, 

 long, flavescent pubescence ; pygidium glabrous ; abdomen black ; 

 legs slender, femora sub-cylindrical, tibiae truncate diagonally at 

 apex, narrow, and with the intermediate and posterior ones slightly 

 ampliate gradually on the outer side from about the median part 

 to the apex. Length 4 J mm. ; width 1J mm. 



The nearest ally of this species is P. afzelii, Catal., p. 30, but 

 the recurved antennae are shorter, deeply emarginate on the outer 

 side for nearly one-third of the length, and thicker in the basal part, 

 instead of having nearly the same width throughout, the four im- 

 pressions on the posterior edge are deeper and the intervals more 

 convex, and the basal spur is long, sharp, and slightly recurved at 

 tip ; the anterior part of the prothorax is not deeply incised in the 

 middle, and is rounded laterally, and the tibiae are not linear as in 

 P. afzelii. 



Hab. Natal (Northdene), caught flying in the daytime. 



