PAUSSUS. 



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238. Paussus desneuxi, sp. n. 



Of: a dull light brownish- and purplish-grey, variegated with 

 darker and lighter colours, finely granulose ; head very large, 

 almost as long as the pronotum, strongly produced semicircularly 

 before the eyes, fuscous, with a narrow 

 light-coloured raised ridge running round 

 the produced part and dividing off the 

 eyes, which are small and scarcely pro- 

 minent, temples swollen ; clypeus slightly 

 emarginate, with a fine channel proceeding 

 from the emargination ; vertex somewhat 

 depressed, with two raised prominences 

 between the eyes ; antennae light testaceous, 

 almost ivory-coloured, with a few obscure 

 brown markings at the apex and exterior 

 Fig! 215. margin, with the first joint large, sub- 



Paussus desneuxi. quadrangular, produced at its interior apex 

 into a blunt tooth, second joint very large, 

 broad, bean-shaped, longer than broad, with the interior margin 

 rounded and acute, and the exterior margin broader, impressed, but 

 not excavated, and produced into a blunt tooth at the base ; the 

 upper surface is somewhat uneven and the lower surface slightly 

 convex, and there is a slight emargination at the apex ; pro- 

 notum subcordiform, not transverse, about as broad as the head, 

 brownish grey, with the sides darker, divided just in the middle 

 by a rather fine furrow, and with a strong longitudinal channel 

 from apex to base, sides rounded in front, contracted at the 

 middle, and slightly widened to the base ; the sides of the head, 

 pronotum and shoulders, and of the elytra are furnished more or 

 less with long, very fine setae, which are not very evident and are 

 probably thicker in fresh specimens ; elytra oblong, with the 

 shoulders rounded and prominent and divided off by a strong 

 furrow, which causes the base of the elytra to appear raised 

 into four divisions ; of a brownish grey colour with a distinct 

 shade of purple, dull, with a large spot just about middle, at 

 the margins, and another at the apex, connected by a marginal 

 band, shining polished pitchy black, as if enamelled ; the space 

 enclosed between these is light testaceous ; on the basal half 

 there are also two or three rows of more or less minute shining 

 spots, and distinct traces of raised lines; pygidium triangular, 

 produced into an obtuse angle, very finely sculptured; legs robust, 

 compressed, variegated, tibiae and tarsi brown, femora white, except 

 base and apex, tarsi moderate, with the last joint shorter than the 

 preceding joints taken together ; underside for the most part 

 whitish testaceous, shining, abdomen with the central part broadly 

 fuscous longitudinally. 

 Length 8 millim. 



