PAUSSUS. 



485 



emarginate in the centre, with the lateral angles rather sharply 

 produced ; posterior part with the sides nearly parallel, deeply and 

 broadly impressed in the middle, and with a tuft of yellow hair on 

 each side of the dividing sulcus ; elytra considerably broader than 

 the base of the pronotum, almost smooth, with a small but distinct 

 tubercle at the outer apex of each ; legs not elongate, rather stout, 

 and granulose. 

 Length 8 mm. 



Burma : Pegu, Bhamo (Fed) ; China : Hong-Kong. 



A specimen before me, from Mr. Andrewes' collection, was taken 

 by Fea in company with a very small reddish-brown ant. 



Baffray (I. c. p. 32) expresses his strong belief that P. sinicus is 

 synonymous with this species, and in his catalogue (p. 46) places 

 them together. Desneux (Genera Insectorum, Paussidae, 1905) 

 again separates them, but, as he is merely recording a list of 

 species, gives no reason for so doing. Westwood's figure of 

 P. sinicus agrees almost entirely with the description of P. jousselini 

 above given, except that it has two small tubercles on the disc of 

 each elytron. 



253. Paussus waterhousei, Westw. 



Paussus ivaterliousei, Westwood, Thes. Ent. Oxon. 1874, p. 90, 

 pi. 16, fig. 4 ; Wasmann, Notes Leyden Mus. xxi, 1899, p. 40, & 

 xxv, 1904, p. 68. 



Bufo-piceous, not shining, very finely and somewhat granulosely 

 sculptured ; head in front deeply emarginate and channelled ; 

 vertex with a round polished excavation, with the sides raised ; 

 antennae with a very elongate club, rounded at the apex, and 

 bluntly and slightly produced externally at the base, with the 

 sides almost parallel, and with a very narrow excavation stretching 

 along its whole length, each margin with five equidistant tubercles ; 

 neck short, but distinct; pronotum divided, the anterior part 

 broader than the head and sharply angled at each side, broader 

 than the posterior part which has the sides almost parallel ; centre 

 of the disc deeply impressed, with the sides thickly setose ; elytra 

 rather broad, parallel-sided, with the shoulders strongly raised, 

 and with a small but very distinct elongate-oval impression on the 

 anterior third, near the suture ; the sides are set with long pitchy 

 setae ; legs comparatively long and slender, with the tibiae 

 compressed ; there is a tuft of yellow hairs on each side of the 

 pygidium. 



Length 5-8 millim. 



Burma : Momeit ; Malay States ; Sumatra : Tandjong 

 Morawa, Serdang. 



The species was originally described by Westwood from Penang; 

 the other specimens from Burma, Malacca, and Sumatra are 

 smaller, with the side angles of the anterior part of the pronotum 

 (according to Wasmann) not so much produced, and its breadth 

 scarcely more than that of the head ; the circular impression on 



