484 



paussid^;. 



251. Paussus hardwicki, Westw. 



Paussus hardwicki, Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lend, xvi, 1838, 

 p. 649, pi. 33, figs. 39-40 ; id., Arcan. Ent. ii, 1845, p. 189, pi. 94, 

 fig. 5. 



Rufo-castaneous, shining, punctured, 

 elytra with the disc more or less dark ; 

 head broader than long, raised in the 

 middle, with the eyes very prominent ; 

 antennae with a long cylindrical club, 

 parallel-sided, about three or four times 

 as long as broad, with the base externally 

 produced into a hook-like process ; pro- 

 notum much longer than broad, divided 

 by a deep transverse central furrow, the 

 anterior portion with the sides dilated 

 and strongly rounded, about as broad at 

 its widest part as the head (including the 

 Fig. 223. e yes), with strong punctures ; posterior 



Paussus hardwicki. portion slightly dilated to the base, but 

 not furrowed ; elytra strongly punctured, 

 finely setose at the sides ; legs slender, dark, tibia) with two 

 spurs. 



Length 8-9 millim. 



Nepal ; United Pkovinces : Almora. 



This species may at once be known by the club of the antennae, 

 which is formed on much the same pattern as in P. hearseyanus 

 and its allies, but is much longer and narrower. 



252. Paussus jousselini, Guer. 



Paussus jjusselini, Guerin, Rev. Zool. 1838, p. 21 ; Westwood, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ii, p. 90 ; id., Arcan. Ent. ii, 1845, p. 169 ; 

 Olivier, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (6) iii, 1883, p. 196, pi. 7, fig. 1 ; 

 Raffray, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris (2) ix, 1887, pp. 32-46. 



Paussus sinicuSj Westwood, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. ii, 1849, p. 57 ; 

 id., Thes. Ent. Oxon. 1874, p. 85, pi. 8, fig. 10. 



Of a dull dark reddish colour, with the elytra black, except the 

 base, and sometimes the apex, or entirely dark, with the apex of 

 the elytra and the abdomen reddish ; head much produced before 

 the eyes, uneven, granulate, with the clypeus emarginate, and the 

 vertex channelled and set with a rather strong tubercle in the 

 middle, behind which are two small tubercles which sometimes 

 coalesce ; antennae granulate, dull, with the first joint large and 

 subquadrate, and the second elongate, subcylindrical, five or six 

 times as long as broad, widened at base and apex, with the outer 

 basal angle slightly produced, and the apex dilated and clavate 

 and furnished with three small, but distinct, sharp teeth set in a 

 shallow excavation ; pronotum divided, long, subparallel-sided, 

 with the anterior part somewhat longer than usual, deeply 



