1898.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 377 



Paussus dissidens, Per., 

 Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1898, p. 184. 



Antennae, head, prothorax and legs very dark brown, opaque, 

 clothed with a very brief, rigid, dark pubescence ; elytra dark chest- 

 nut-brown, set with squamiform, fulvous hairs ; head with a deep, 

 median groove culminating in an occipital, sub-conical tubercle ; 

 club thick, a little longer than broad, carinate all along the inner 

 margin which has no impression ; the outer margin is bi- sinuate, 

 deeply scooped from the tip to about half the length, with the edges 

 of the excavation slightly serrulate, and the spur is short and blunt ; 

 prothorax bi-partite, anterior part in the shape of a broadly truncate 

 cone, incised in the middle, posterior part with a very deep median 

 impression and with two small lateral tubercles ; elytra sub-parallel ; 

 tibiae compressed and dilated. 



Very closely allied to P. burmeisteri ; it is, however, of smaller 

 size, and the antennal club has quite the same shape, but the outer 

 margin, is scooped out in P. dissidens, whereas it is solid in P. 

 burmeisteri and a little more deeply sinuate, and the surface of the 

 inner part has no impression in dissidens. Length 4i- mm. ; 

 width 1-|- mm. 



Hab. Natal. 



Paussus vexatoe, 

 Plate XL, fig. 11. 



Dark piceous-brown, moderately shining ; head rugulose, grooved 

 in the centre as far as the neck, and having at a short distance from 

 it a slight, transverse depressed line ending in a fossa on each side, 

 posterior part of the head a little more raised than the neck, canthus 

 under the eye not sharp ; antennas rugose and clothed with 

 squamiform hairs, antennal club elongate, flat, but thicker in 

 the male and reaching to about the prothoracic excavation, thinner 

 and one-third longer, reaching nearly the base of the elytra, in the 

 female ; the inner edge is carinate and straight, the apex sub-truncate, 

 the outer edge is deeply grooved from end to end, the groove is 

 moderately wide and the lower margin of it has six teeth ; the base 

 of the outer margin is distinctly angular ; in the female the antenna 

 is slightly curving backwards ; prothorax bi-partite ; anterior p irt 

 incised in the middle, and lenticular, posterior part separated from 

 ihe anterior by the usual transverse impression and having two large 



