PAUSSUS. 



495 



This species may be at once known by the very broad posterior 

 portion of the pronotum, which is nearly three times as broad as 

 long and is distinctly broader than the anterior part. The upper 

 find undersides of the excavation of the antennal club are set 

 with very sharp teeth, the under ones being furnished with a 

 single very long seta ; the elytra are furnished with long reddish 

 yellow setae on their whole disc and at the sides, and there is no 

 difference in length between the discal and lateral setae. Wasmann 

 {I. c. p. 5(3) adds other characters, but these are quite sufficient to 

 distinguish the species. 



267. Paussus ploiophorus, Bens. 



Paussus ploiophorus, Benson, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist, vi, 1846, 

 p. 463 ; Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v, p. 25 ; id., Tlies. 

 Ent. Oxon. 1874, p. 87, pi. 16, fig. 11. 



Paussus phloRophorus (in error), Gem. & EJar. Cat. ii, p. 705. 



Blackish chestnut; head a little longer than in P. nauceras, 

 antennae with the club rather broader and more rounded, with a 

 deep excavation which, has the margins denticulate (the lower 

 denticulations being setigerous), and with the base incised in the 

 •centre ; pronotum much as in P. denticulatus, but a little narrower ; 

 elytra with the disc dark, polished, finely setose ; apex of abdomen 

 with two distinct fascicles of short hairs. 



Length 5-5 1 millim. 



United Pkovinces : Eohilkhand. 



This insect is closely allied to P. nauceras and P. denticulatus, 

 being intermediate between them. From the former it differs in 

 the shape of the antennal club, and from the latter in this character 

 and also in the narrower posterior portion of the pronotum, as 

 -compared with the anterior portion. 



268. Paussus tibialis, Westw. 



Paussus tibialis, Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xix, 1841 

 p. 47 ; id., Arcan. Ent. ii, 1845, p. 174, pi. 90, fig. 1. 



Castaneous or rufo-castaueous, shining, with the disc of the 

 elytra black ; head rather narrower than the pronotum, convex, 

 with the clypeus scarcely emarginate, strongly channelled on the 

 vertex, the sides behind the eyes oblique and punctured ; club 

 large, somewhat ovate, boat-shaped, uneven and impressed, with 

 the keel sharp and the outer apical angle produced and rounded, 

 the excavation deep, with the upper margin simple, and the lower 

 denticulate and setigerous, marked internally behind the denticles 

 with several small impressions ; pronotum deeply divided, the 

 anterior part much broader than long, with the lateral angles 

 bluntly produced and not dentate, the posterior part widely 

 -excavate in front, almost as broad as the front portion ; elytra 



