PAUSSIDiE. 



club, which is produced at the base externally into a pitchy spine ; 

 this club is not excavate, but on its widened hinder margin has a 

 depressed oblong impression with four elevated transverse ridges 

 running across it ; pronotum about as broad as the head, divided; 

 anterior portion short, testaceous, with the ridge feebly chan- 

 nelled, the lateral angles not very sharply produced ; posterior 

 portion dark at the sides, rather broad, with two rounded tubercles 

 in the middle of the hind margin ; elytra covering the pygidium, 

 broad and short, almost subquadrate, slightly widened behind, 

 pitchy, shining, with the base lighter and the margins and apex 

 reddish, very obsoletely and finely punctured, outer margins with 

 four or five equidistant tufts of short stiff reddish setae, and the 

 apex with two tufts on each side ; legs pitchy, hinder pair broader 

 than the others, w T ith the femora a little dilated and the tibiae 

 compressed, tarsi red ; underside entirely red. 

 Length 6 millim. 



Bengal : Chota Nag-pur, Barway and Nowatoli ; United 

 Provinces : Dehra Dun. 



Tound in company with Pheidole latingda. 



248. Paussus pilicornis, Don. 



Paussus pilicornis, Donovan, Ins. Ind. 1800, pi. 5, fig. 4 ; West/wood, 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xvi, 1838, p. 643, pi. 33, fig. 34 ; id., 

 Arcan. Eht. ii, 1845, p. 173, pi. 89, tig. 1/ 



A very small and very distinct species, rufo-testaceous, with 

 the elytra pitchy black except the extreme base, distinctly punc- 

 tured and shining ; head rather broad, subtriangular, with the 

 clypeus emarginate, and with an impressed longitudinal line 

 extending from the anterior margin to between the eyes, where 

 there is a rather large circular impression ; antennae with a very 

 strongly setose club, which is pear-shaped, the narrower part 

 forming the apex, and the basal portion being almost circular, 

 with the outer angle at the base produced into a short blunt 

 point ; the apical portion is bent upwards, with a slight keel 

 along the anterior margin, and a transverse depression before the 

 base on the upper side ; pronotum about as long as broad, with 

 the anterior portion broader than the posterior, uneven, with a 

 rounded depression in the middle, and with the lateral angles 

 produced, but rounded : the centre is deeply sulcate, and the 

 posterior part, which is almost parallel-sided, is made up of two 

 large raised shiny spaces separated by a channel ; elytra black, 

 strongly punctured, setose ; legs rufo-testaceous, rather long and 

 slender. 



Length 4 millim. 



Bengal. 



This insect may at once be known by its small size, the shape 

 of the pronotum, and especially by the peculiar shape of the setose 

 club of the antennae. 



