478 



PAUSSID2E. 



is not strongly widened in front and is almost parallel-sided. In 

 W estwood's figure (I. c.) the club of the antennae is represented as 

 smaller than in these two species, but in some specimens it is 

 rather larger. 



242. Paussus schiodtei, Westw. 



Paussus schiodtei, Westwood, Tlies. Ent. Oxon. 1874, p. 85, pi. 16, 

 fig. 6. 



A rather narrow and elegant species, rufo-castaneous, with the 

 elytra fuscous, except the base ; head rather 

 p sma ^5 with very prominent eyes, which 



^^y^L/j\)^^ extend plainly on each side beyond the 

 pronotum ; A^errex excavate ; club of antennas 

 rather long, convex beneath, flat above, with 

 four very strong transverse impressions 

 (which make it almost appear jointed), apex 

 rounded, base truncate, with the external 

 angle sharply, bat not strongly, produced ; 

 pronotum longer than broad, parallel-sided, 

 with the anterior lateral angles not produced, 

 impressed transversely and longitudinally, 

 but not divided, although the apices of the 

 side parts of the posterior portion are trace- 

 able in two tubercles ; elytra very finely 

 sculptured and setose; legs rufo-testaceous, tibiae compressed, 

 broader at the apex. 

 Length 7 millim. 

 Bengal. 



This species may be known at once from P. hearseyanus and its 

 allies by the four strong impressions on the club of the antennas, 

 by the excavate head and prominent eyes, and by the shape of 

 the pronotum. 



218. 



schtotUci 



243. Paussus hear sey anus, Westw. 



Fig. 219. 



Paussus hearseyanus. 



Paussus hearseyanus, Westwood, Proc. 



Linn. Soc. Loud. 1842, 



133 



Arcan. Ent. ii, 1845, p. 189, pi. 94, 

 fig. 4 ; Wasmann, Notes Leyden Mus. 

 xxi, 1899, p. 37, pi. 3, fig. 3. 

 Paussus hearseyanus var. parvicornis, 

 Wasmann, op. cit. xxv, 1904, p. 76. 



Of a more or less bright fulvo-casta- 

 neous colour, with the disc of each elytron 

 black ; head large, distinctly broader 

 than long, with a transverse keel behind 

 the eyes, which is slightly angled in the 

 centre ; clypeus slightly emarginate ; 

 antennas with the club shaped much as 

 in P. aMnis, but with three distinct 



•oblique impressions, which are very characteristic of the species ; 



