PAUSSUS. 



479 



pronotum at apex as wide as the head, with a strong central 

 transverse impression, widened in front (where it is strongly 

 rounded) and behind, and more or less plainly impressed longi- 

 tudinally ; elytra smooth and shining, with distinct but fine 

 sculpture, and very finely alutaceous ; pygidium distinctly punc- 

 tured ; legs more or less red, with darker shades, and with two 

 spurs at the apex of the tibiae. 

 Length 8 millim. 



United Provinces : Benares ; Bombay : Poona, Surat. 

 Var. parvicornis, Wasm. 



This variety differs from the type-form in its considerably 

 larger size, while the club of the antennae is markedly smaller, 

 and differs in shape, being more contracted in front and almost 

 triangular ; the head, moreover, is somewhat narrower than the 

 pronotum, and the pronotum almost as long as broad, whereas in 

 the type-form the head is at least as broad as the pronotum, and 

 the latter is transverse. 



Length 9-10 millim. 



Made as : Bangalore. 



Type in coll. E. Oberthiir. 



244. Paussus horni, Wasm. 



Paussus horni, Wasmann, Zool. Jahrbuch. Syst. xvii, p. lo4 ; pl. 5, 

 fig. 6. 



Kufo-testaceous, bright and shining, punctured, with fine and 

 short pilose pubescence ; elytra large, parallel-sided, with the disc 

 of each furnished with an abbreviated longitudinal black line ; 

 head with the eyes projecting beyond the pronotum, thickly and 

 finely punctured, forehead carinate, clypeus scarcely emarginate ; 

 antennae with the club large, oval, very shiny, almost im- 

 punctate, with two deep longitudinal impressions on its upper 

 side and one less pronounced, exterior angles produced into 

 a large thick tooth ; pronotum slightly transverse, longitudinally 

 furrowed, but not divided, with the anterior portion much broader 

 than the posterior, coarsely but obsoletely rugose-punctate, with 

 the sides strongly rounded, posterior part alutaceous, much more 

 finely and sparingly punctured ; elytra much broader than, and 

 more than three times as long as, the pronotum, alutaceous, with 

 rows of rather large, but not deep, setigerous punctures; pygidium 

 shining, with the margin bare, with coarse punctures, and between 

 these finely punctured ; legs stout, with the tibiae narrow, but 

 somewhat broader towards the apex, with stout tarsi and long 

 sharp claws. 



Jjength 7 millim. 



Ceylon : Bandaravella {Dr. W. Horn). 



Found under a stone in a nest of Pheidole spatJiifera, Pore], 

 var. yerburyi, Porel. 



