PAUSSUS. 



477 



without a handle, the external basal angle being produced into a 

 conical and more or less sharp prominence ; on its upper surface 

 there are traces of oblique impressions, which are often obsolete ; 

 pronotum strongly impressed transversely in the middle, with the 

 anterior portion rounded at the sides, which 

 are constricted before the transverse impres- 

 sion and then slightly widened posteriorly 

 before the base ; elytra with the disc of each 

 black, somewhat variably, but finely, sculp- 

 tured, the punctures being very diffuse ; 

 pygidium finely punctured ; legs moderate, 

 more or less rufescent. 

 Length 7-8 millim. 

 Burma. 



This species is closely allied to P. hearsey- 

 anus, from which it differs in its smaller 

 head, comparatively longer pronotum, and in 

 the almost total absence of oblique impressions on the club of the 

 antenna?. 



241. Paussus cognatus, Westiu. 



Paussus cognatus, Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xix, 1841,. 

 p. 49 ; id., Arcan. Ent. ii, 1845, p. 189, pi. 94, fig. 3. 



Eufo-castaneous, shining, with the disc of each elytron black ; 

 head about as broad as, or a little narrower than, the pronotum ; 



clypeus not emarginate, front impressed on 

 both sides of a raised central line; antennae 

 with the club much as in P. affinis ; pro- 

 notum strongly and transversely impressed 

 in the centre, slightly widened in front and 

 behind, the anterior portion with a semi- 

 circular impression on each side of the 

 middle line, with the sides rounded, and 

 setose in fresh specimens ; elytra extremely 

 finely sculptured, almost smooth; legs ferru- 

 ginous, tibia? with two spurs ; pygidium 

 finely punctured, with two minute conical: 

 tubercles set at some distance from each 

 other. 



Length 8-9 millim. 

 Bengal (Melly, Westermanri) ; Madras : Madura. 

 Type in the Oxford Museum. 



This species may be distinguished from P. hearseyanus by the 

 absence of oblique impressions on the club of the antenna? and by 

 the shape and sculpture of the pronotum, which is less dilated in 

 front and has two large shallow impressions on each side of the 

 median line, in the anterior portion. From P. affinis it differs by 

 the same two impressions and by the shape of the thorax, which 



Fig. 217. 



Paussus cognatus. 



