490 



PAUSSID^E. 



elongate and slender, with the posterior tibiae slightly dilated ; 

 anal segment of the abdomen with two curved horny points ; 

 underside of the mesosternum and abdomen darker. 



Length 7^-8 millim. 



India (no definite locality). 



From Westwood's description this seems to be a very distinct 

 species. 



260. Paussus fulvus, Westw. 



Paussusfulvus, Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xix, 1841, p. 47 ; 

 id., Arcan. Ent. ii, 1845, p. 175, pi. 90, fig. 3. 



Of a uniform fulvo-luteous or bright luteous brownish colour ; 

 head produced before the eyes, deeply and broadly channelled in 

 front, with the channel meeting a very large circular fovea between 

 the eyes ; antennae with a large broad club, boat-shaped (much as 

 in P. boysi), strongly impressed at the sides, with the keel uneven, 

 and the wide excavation obscurely scalloped or subcrenulate and 

 not setigerous, outer side with traces of ridges, outer basal angle 

 somewhat strongly produced ; pronotum divided, a little broader 

 than the head, anterior portion rather sharply produced at the 

 sides, feebly channelled, but not emarginate in the middle ; pos- 

 terior portion channelled and somewhat raised on each side of the 

 channel ; elytra dull, finely rugose, with very faint traces of raised 

 lines, with the apical follicles well marked, but without a brush of 

 hairs or a thorn-like seta ; legs rather broad, tibiae compressed,, 

 the posterior pair somewhat curved and rather broader than the 

 others. 



Length 6 millim. 



India. 



261. Paussus jerdani, Westw. 



Paussus jerdani, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v, 1847, p. 26,. 

 pi. 2, tip. 1 ; id., Cab. Orient. Ent. pi. 41, fig. 5 j id., Thes. Ent. 

 Oxon. 1874, p. 88, pi. 18, fig. 4. . 



Of a dull rufous or rufo-castaneous 

 colour, with the posterior part of the 

 pronotum, the disc of the elytra (more 

 or less), the femora, and the sternum dark ; 

 head produced in front of the eyes, with 

 the anterior angles marked, deeply chan- 

 nelled and strongly raised behind into a 

 large tubercle, which is hollowed out and 

 contains two more or less distinct small 

 tubercles ; antennae with both joints 

 closely granulate, the first stout, the 

 second large, boat-shaped, deeply and 

 broadly excavated, with the keel uneven 



Fig. 227. 



Paussus jerdani. 



