492 



paussid^:. 



not strong setae at the sides ; legs long and rather slender, tibiae 

 without spurs ; abdomen with two incurved fascicles of hairs at 

 the apex. 



Length 7-7| millim. 



Bengal. 



The host of this species, according to Wasmann, is probably 

 Pheidole latinoda. It may be known by the shape of the head and 

 pronotum, and the broad and large mussel-shaped club of the 

 antennae. 



263. Paussus suavis, Wasm. 



Paussus suavis f Wasmann, Kritisch. Verzeich. Myrmek. Termit. 

 Arth. 1894, p. 215 ; id., Notes Leyden Mus. xxv, 1904, pp. 44 & 

 54, pi. 5, fig. 4. 



Ferruginous, entirely dull, with the disc of the elytra broadly 

 black ; head large, with the eyes comparatively small, clypeus 

 emarginate, forehead longitudinally sulcate, vertex foveolate, with 

 the margin of the fovea raised on both sides, apparently auriculate ; 

 antennae with a triangular club, which is broad and strongly com- 

 pressed, and deeply and broadly excavate, the lower side of the 

 excavation being transversely sulcate ; pronotum deeply divided, 

 with the anterior part very short, almost four times as broad as 

 its length, with the lateral angles rather strongly but somewhat 

 bluntly produced, and emarginate behind the processes ; posterior 

 part distinctly narrower and longer, and broadly sulcate longi- 

 tudinally ; elytra broad and ample, coriaceous, with very short 

 flavous pubescence, and with long but not strong fulvous setae at 

 the sides and apex ; legs rather slender, tibiae not dilated. 



Length 6 millim. 



Bombay : Belgaum {H. E. Andrewes), Kolaba (R. Wroughton). 



One female example was taken by Wroughton in a nest of 

 Pheidole latinoda. 



This species is closely allied to P. thoracicus, from which it 

 differs in the longer and more sharply triangular club of the 

 antennae and the different shape of the posterior part of the pro- 

 notum, which in the last-named insect is at least as broad as the 

 anterior part, and is widened in front, while in P. suavis it is 

 distinctly narrower than the anterior part and is parallel-sided ; 

 P. thoracicus, moreover, is a larger insect. 



264. Paussus quadricornis, Wasm. 



Paussus quadricornis, Wasmann, Notes Leyden Mus. xxi, 1899, 

 p. 43, pi. 4, fig. 8 (club of antenna), & xxv, 1904, p. 48. 



Black, with the head, the club of the antennae, the anterior 

 part of the pronotum, and the base, margins and extreme apex of 

 the elytra red, slightly shining ; head punctured, with the clypeus 



