476 



PAUSSID.E. 



Ceylon : Kandy (Colonel Yerhury). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



Found in a nest of Tetramorium (Xiphomyrmex) tortuosum in 

 May. 



This extraordinary insect, which differs from any other species 

 of the genus that I have seen, is the Paussus sp. 166 alluded to as 

 undescribed by Wasmann (Krit. Verzeich. der Myrmek. imd 

 Termit. Arth. p. 121). 



239. Paussus spencei, Westiv. 



Paussus spencei, Westwood, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) i, p. 190 

 (1864); id., Thes. Ent Oxon. 1874, p. 90, pi. 18, fig. 8. 



Castaneous red, rather long, depressed, moderately shiny, 

 elytra black, with the exception of the base and apex and the 

 extreme margins ; head large, produced before the eyes, punc- 

 tured, with the clypeus emarginate and with a strong furrow on 

 the vertex, between the base of which and the eyes are two 

 impressions; antennae with a kidney-shaped, rather broad club, 

 finely punctured, not impressed, with the anterior margin acute 

 and the posterior furnished in the middle of its edge with a long- 

 ovate impression, which is characteristic of the species ; the 

 external angle is bluntly produced ; pronotum as broad as the 

 head, with a transverse furrow, the anterior part simple, with 

 the sides evenly rounded and with no lateral angles ; posterior 

 part of the same breadth as the anterior ; the deep and wide 

 excavation is furnished on each side with a large tuft of yellow 

 hairs ; elytra long, narrow, parallel-sided, with fine punctures set 

 with yellowish setae ; legs reddish, all the femora and tibiae robust, 

 dilated, and more or less compressed. 



Length 6 millim. 



India (without special locality). 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



The shape of the pronotum, the formation of the antennal club, 

 and the robust femora and tibiae will serve to separate the species. 

 In size and general shape it is much like the African species, 

 P. spinicoxis, Westw., but the latter has a shorter head, slender 

 legs, and the club of the antennae impressed much as in P. liearsey- 

 anus ; the colour of the elytra, moreover, is uniform castaneous. 



240. Paussus affinis, Westw. 



Paussus affinis, Westwood, Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond. xvi, 1838, 

 p. 646, pi. 33, fi<?s. 36 & 37 ; id., Arcan. Ent. ii, 1845, p. 188, 

 pi. 94, fig. 2. 



Rufo-castaneous or ferruginous, shining, very finely punc- 

 tured ; head (with the eyes) about as broad as the apex of the 

 pronotum ; antennae with the club shaped like an inverted jug 



