494 



PAUSSID^E. 



impressed and scarcely emarginate, and the vertex raised, with a 

 minute fovea on the apex of the elevation ; antennae with the 

 club boat-shaped, much as in P. denticulatus, bat differently- 

 shaped, being less parallel-sided and more narrowed towards the 

 apex, with the margins of the excavation less strongly toothed, 

 but with the teeth of the inferior margin furnished with much 

 longer and coarser setae ; pronotum with short fulvous pubescence, 

 strongly divided ; anterior part dull, elevated, with the lateral 

 angles rounded and not produced, about as broad as the head ; 

 posterior part twice as broad as long, broader than the anterior 

 part, very strongly foveate in front, with the posterior angles 

 rounded ; in fresh specimens the transverse central furrow has a 

 rather strong tuft of yellow hairs on each side ; elytra long and 

 flat, smooth and somewhat shining, very finely alutaceous, with 

 three or four very distinct longitudinal rows of stiff short yellowish 

 white setae on each, which look like raised carinae in fresh speci- 

 mens; at the sides and apex there are longer yellowish setae, and 

 the pygidium has a row of long yellowish setae, and inside this a 

 row of reddish hairs and small tufts. 

 Length 5 millim. 



Madras : Nilgiri Hills (H. L. Andrewes), Travancore, base of 

 "Western Ghats (Annandale) ; Bengal : Calcutta (Brit. Mus.), 

 Biru, Chota Nagpur, with Pheidole javana {Car don). 



This little species, when fresh, is one of the most distinct of 

 the whole genus by reason of the very regular longitudinal rows 

 of short setae on the elytra which look like yellowish white or 

 whitish yellow carinae ; these are apparently very easily rubbed 

 off, and the elytra are then quite bare and smooth ; the shape of 

 the pronotum, and, to a less extent, of the antennal club will, 

 however, serve to distinguish the species. 



266. Paussus denticulatus, Westw. 



Paussus denticulatus, Westwood, Arcan. Ent. ii, 1845, p. 179, pi. 92, 

 tig. 1 ; id., Thes. Ent. Oxon. 1874, p. 88, pi. 16, fig. V2 ; Wasmann, 

 Notes Leyden Mus. xxv, 1904, pp. 47 & 55, pi. 6, fig. 1. 



Of a dark brownish chestnut colour, with the disc of the elytra 

 and the hinder part of the pronotum darker ; head narrower than 

 the pronotum, club of antennae large, boat-shaped, rather regular, 

 with the excavation wide and strongly denticulate and the base 

 incised in the centre ; pronotum divided, with the anterior part 

 obtusely toothed in front at the sides, and distinctly narrower than 

 the posterior part, which is very broad compared with the allied 

 species ; elytra parallel-sided, finely sculptured, strongly setose ; 

 legs somewhat long and slender. 



Length 6-7 millim. 



Bombay: Ahmadnagar; Centkal India : Mhow (Boys). 



