496 



PATJSSIDjE. 



shiny, extremely finely sculptured; anterior and intermediate 

 femora slender and cylindrical, posterior femora and tibiae shorter 

 and much more robust, dilated and compressed; tibial spurs 

 wanting. 



Length 6 millim. 



Bengal. 



This insect may be easily distinguished from all its allies, except 

 P. pacificus, by the formation of the posterior tibiae ; the species 

 appears to be very rare, and Wasmann makes no allusion to it in 

 his notes on the allied species. Westvvood obtained the specimen 

 on which he described it from Westermann at Copenhagen. 

 In the face of Westwood's separate descriptions, it is hardly 

 possible to regard this and the succeeding species as synonymous 

 without comparing the type-specimens, which I am unable to do. 

 I am strongly of opinion, however, that they are identical. 



269. Paussus pacificus, Westw. 



Paussus pacificus, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1855, p. 81 ; 

 id., Thes. Ent. Oxon. 1874, p. 88, pi. 16, fig. 7. 



A small and broad species, of a castaneous colour, with very 

 scattered fine yellowish pubescence ; the sides of the posterior 

 part of the pronotum and the greater part of the disc of the 

 elytra are black and shining; head emarginate and channelled 

 in front, with a depressed semicircular tubercle in the centre at 

 the base of the eyes ; club of the antennae irregularly boat- shaped, 

 subovate, broader at base than at apex, with the disc on each side 

 longitudinally impressed from near the apex to the base, basal 

 margin produced externally, excavation with its upper margin 

 straight and simple, the lower margin with six or seven small 

 teeth and the same number of transverse striae on the edge of 

 the inner surface ; pronotum divided by a broad and not very 

 deep furrow, the anterior part a little broader than the head, 

 raised, with the lateral angles bluntly rounded and not sharply 

 produced, posterior part as broad as the anterior, gradually nar- 

 rowed to the base ; elytra much broader than the pronotum, very 

 finety sculptured, with the sides set with short, red, curved setae ; 

 pygidium castaneous, with the raised margin black ; legs dark 

 castaneous, the anterior and the posterior pairs slender, the poste- 

 rior pair short, with the tibiae much dilated and compressed. 



Length 5|— 6 millim. 



Ceylon (coll. Dohrn). 



The laterally impressed antenna! club, the bluntly rounded 

 angles of the anterior portion of the pronotum, and the short 

 posterior legs with the thickened tibiae will serve to distinguish 

 the species. 



