of the Paussida, and notice of a fifth species. 463 



papilioform, and is placed on a low keel running through it 

 from the clypeus to the nape, and on either side a slight ele- 

 vation proceeds obliquely from the tubercle to the base of 

 the antennae. The first joint of the antennas is granulated. 

 The legs are slender, and all the five tarsi are distinctly 

 visible. 



The description is taken from a specimen captured early 

 in July 1845, at Green Mount, Mussoorie, by Capt. T. Hut- 

 ton, while at rest on the under side of a leaf of night shade, 

 and which was kindly made over by him to my collection. 

 A specimen was taken by Dr. Bacon on the 5th July 1844, 

 with a sweeping-net in grass on my grounds at Rockville, 

 Landour, distant about three miles from Green Mount. On 

 comparison it differs merely in the following particulars. 

 The tubercle at the vertex shows something of an excavation 

 in the centre, the basal part of the thorax is broader in pro- 

 portion to the anterior part, the elytra are more lengthened, 

 and it wants the loose incurved hairs on the podex which 

 occur in my specimen, and which are probably a sexual dis- 

 tinction. 



3. — Paussus ploiophorus, nobis. 



P. fusco-castaneus, abdomine elytrorumque disco nigris 

 politis, horum marginibus late castaneis. Antennarum clava 

 naviformi, fissura basali profunda, angusta, incisa ; cavaminis 

 marginibus denticulatis, marginis inferioris denticulis seti- 

 geris ; abdomine setarum brevium fasciculis duobus munito. 

 Long 2/10 poll. 



Hab. — Ad Moradabad, agris Rohillanis, ultra Gangem. 



This species, which is of the size and habit of P. denticu- 

 latus, Westwood, is intermediate between it and P. nauceras. 

 It resembles the latter in having a slit in the clava of the 

 antennae at the hinder base, more coarctate than in P, nan- 



