PAUSSUS. 



487 



the eyes prominent, clypeus strongly deflexed in the -middle, 

 forehead not channelled, vertex with a broad round excavation ; 

 antennae with a broad obtusely triangular club, with the apex 

 almost truncate, excavated, the posterior part of the excavation 

 being transversely silicate ; pronotuin divided into two parts, as, 

 broad as the head, with the sides of the anterior part rounded, 

 and the angles bluntly rounded, the posterior part scarcely 

 narrower than the anterior, with the anterior angles raised, the 

 disc impressed in the middle and longitudinally channelled ; elytra 

 very finely coriaceous, with a single thin seta on each side near 

 the apical angle ; legs moderate, with the tibiae not dilated. 



Length 6-6 h millim. i 



Bombay: Poona. 



Several examples were taken by Wroughton in nests of Pheiclole 

 wroughtoni, Forel, in company with Paussus soleatus. According 

 to its describer (I, c. p. 216), the species is closely allied to 

 P. fulvus, P. boysi, and P. stevensianus. From the first of these it 

 differs in its dull upperside, finely alutaceous elytra, the absence 

 of a longitudinal furrow on the forehead, the rounded side-angles 

 of the front part of the pronotum, and the narrow legs ; from 

 P. boysi it further differs in not having a strong flexible spine at 

 the apex of the elytra, and from P. stevensianus by the formation 

 of the vertex. 



256. Paussus soleatus, Wasm. 



Paussus soleatus, Wasmann, Kritisch. Verzeich. Myrmek. Termit 

 Arth. 1894, p. 216. 



Very closely allied to the preceding, of which it might, perhaps, 

 be considered a variety ; it is, however, a shorter and smaller 

 insect, with the head broader, and with the elytra all black except 

 the base and apex. According to Wasmann, the chief difference 

 lies in the fact that on the head there is a horseshoe-shaped 

 impression, the anterior part of which is formed by the margin of 

 the fovea on the vertex and the middle part by the margin of the 

 frontal furrow ; it appears to be interrupted behind, and not in 

 front as in P. testaceus. 



Length 5j millim. 



Bombay : Poona. 



Several examples were taken by Wroughton in nests of 1 heidole 

 wroughtoni) Forel, in company with the preceding species. 



257. Paussus testaceus, sp. n. 



A small testaceous or light castaneous species ; head large, 

 hexagonal, not much shorter than the pronotum, dull and rather 

 strongly granulose, vertex with a deep impression surrounded by 

 a dark raised line, which is interrupted in front; eyes small, 



