PAUSSUS. 



491 



and the edges of the emargination scalloped and impressed within 

 but not setigerous, external basal angle produced into a blunt 

 point ; the base is emargiaate and not incised ; prouotum very 

 deeply divided, the anterior part rather variable in breadth, with 

 the hind margin emarginate in the middle and the lateral angles 

 acutely produced, but more so in some examples than others ; 

 posterior part broader than the anterior, with the sides strongly 

 rounded, deeply incised and bidentate on its front margin, with 

 a tuft of yellow hairs on each side near the anterior lateral angles; 

 elytra much broader than the base of the pronotum, slightly 

 widened behind, very finely sculptured, with the base' more 

 broadly red than the apex, and with the sides and apex set with 

 very long wiry setae ; pygidium also setose ; legs rather short and 

 stout, with the tibiae slightly dilated; sterna punctured. 

 Length 6-7 millim. 



Bengal: Siripur Sarda (Ind. Mus.); Madras: •Nilgiri Hills 

 (H. L. Andreses). 



This species is very distinct by reason of the long and numerous 

 wiry setae which clothe the sides of the elytra, and in fresh 

 specimens exceed half the breadth of the elytra. It is most 

 nearly allied to P. thoracicus, from which it may be known by 

 the much shorter lateral setae, and the shape of the posterior 

 part of the pronotum. 



262. Paussus thoracicus, Don. 



Paussus thoracicus, Donovan, Ins. Ind. 1800, pi. 5, fig. 2 ; Westwood, 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xvi, 1838, p. 040, pi. 33, figs. 28-30 ; 

 id., Arcan. Ent. ii, 1845, p. 180, pi. 90, fig. 4; Wasmann, Notes 

 Leyden Mus. xxv, 1904, pp. 44 & 54. 



Paussus trigonicornis, Latreille, Gen. Crust. Ins. iii (3), 'pi. 11, fig. 8. 



Red or rufo-castaneous, with the sides of the posterior part of 

 the pronotum and the elytra, except the base and apex, black ; 



head large, much produced in front of 

 the eyes, with the anterior angles well 

 marked, narrower than the pronotum, 

 with an impressed line extending from 

 the clypeus to the vertex, which bears 

 two small elevated curved ridges shaped 

 like a horse-shoe, the space between with 

 two small tubercles ; antennae with a 

 large deep boat-shaped subtriangular club, 

 deeply excavated, with the margins scal- 

 loped and not strongly denticulate, the 

 Fig. 228. Dase ]S bluntly produced externally ; pro- 



Pomssus thoracicus. notum very deeply excavate in the middle, 

 anterior part produced into sharp angles 

 at the sides, raised and emarginate in the centre ; posterior part 

 with the sides in front considerably raised, large and broad ; 

 elytra with yellowish setose scales on the disc, and with long but 



