PAUSSUS. 



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249. Paussus fletcheri, sp. n. 



Bather robust, shining, front parts and the antennae red, elytra 

 black, with the base rather broadly and the suture very narrowly red, 

 very scantily pubescent ; head rather large, 

 eyes riot prominent, vertex with a small 

 circular depression; antennae with the first 

 joint large and broad and the second bean- 

 shaped, depressed and obscurely channelled 

 on its outer edge, longer than broad, 

 rounded at the apex and produced at the 

 internal angle into a tooth-shaped promi- 

 nence ; pronotum strongly divided by a 

 deep transverse impression, the front part 

 very broad, produced at the sides into 

 large prominent angles, and emarginate in 

 the centre ; hinder part much narrower, 

 parallel -sided, very strongly impressed in 

 i the middle longitudinally ; elytra parallel- 



Paussus fletcheri. sided, very feebly and • confusedly punc- 

 tured ; legs rather robust, red, with the 

 femora darker, intermediate and posterior tibiae produced rather 

 sharply at their external angles ; underside reddish. 

 Length 6| millim. 



Ceylon : Diyatalawa (T. Bainbrigge Fletcher). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



This species is very distinct; superficially it most nearly 

 resembles P. quadricornis, but is in an entirely different section, 

 the antennae having the second joint of the club bean-shaped and 

 closed, and not boat-shaped and open. 



250. Paussus saundersi, Wesfw. 



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

 p. 50; id., Arcan. Ent. ii, p. 190, pi. 94 fig. 6. 



Entirely of a fulvous or fulvo-castaneous coloor, with the head 

 and pronotum somewhat darker ; head about as broad as pro- 

 notum, with two semicircular impressions between the eyes ; 

 antennae with a long oblong-ovate club, with the base externally 

 produced into a hook-like setigerous process ; pronotum longer 

 than broad with a deep central furrow ending in a small lateral 

 tubercle on each side, anterior portion somewhat raised, with the 

 sides strongly rounded; legs slender, tibiae with two apical spurs. 



Length 7-8 millim. 



India. 



The club of the antennae is about as long as in P. hardivicki, 

 but in shape is much more rounded, and the insect in this 

 respect is intermediate between the last-named species and the 

 P. hear sey anus group. 



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