488 



PAUSSIDiE. 



rather prominent ; antennae with the first joint robust, subquad- 

 rangular, club rather short, subtriangular, compressed, excavate, 

 with the apex rounded and the base truncate and produced 

 externally in a short tooth, excavation with the sides very feebly 

 scalloped, not dentate or setigerous, inner side impressed, upper 

 surface of club with five dark transverse 

 impressions at the edge of the excavation ; 

 pronotum narrow, longer than broad, 

 divided by a furrow, anterior part dull, 



Igranulose, strongly emarginate in the 

 middle, with the sides scarcely produced ; 

 posterior part shining, broadly impressed 

 in the middle, with the lateral lobes nar- 

 rowly black at the apex ; elytra shining, 

 very slightly sculptured, setose at the 

 apex ; legs long, not dilated. 

 Length 5 millim. 

 Tenassemm : Tavoy (Doherty). 

 Type in the British Museum. 

 This species appears to be allied to 

 P. ivroughtoni, Wasm., and P. soleatus, 

 Wasm., but is smaller and differently coloured and is remarkable 

 for the dull granulose front parts and the very smooth and shining 

 elytra. From P. Jlchteli, which it somewhat resembles in the 

 shape of the pronotum, it differs entirely by the shape of the 

 club and the almost total absence of pubescence. 



Fig. 225. 



Paussus testaceus. 



258. Paussus boysi, Westw. 



Pavssus boysi, Westwood, Arcan. Ent. ii, 1845, p. 177, pi. 92, fig. 2 ; 

 Wasmann, Notes Leyden Mus. xxv, 1904, pp. 43, 54, pi. 5, fig. 2. 



Yellowish testaceous, with the elytra slightly more rufescent, 

 and with the basal joint of the antennae, the sides of the posterior 

 part of the pronotum, and the disc of the 

 hinder portion of the elytra more or less 

 obscurely dark (but variable) ; head sub- 

 triangular, much produced in front of the 

 eyes, angulate in front, vertex deeply 

 channelled, the channel ending in a large 

 round fovea between the eyes ; neck short, 

 punctured ; antennas with the first joint 

 rugose, and the second large, broad, boat- 

 shaped, compressed, granulose, with the 

 keel uneven and the deep excavation having 

 Fig. 226. sides scalloped and subcrenulate (as in 



Paussus boysi. P. stevensianus and P. fulvus), and not 



denticulate or setigerous; outer basal angle 

 strongly produced, pitchy ; pronotum divided, anterior part convex 



