498 



PATJ,:'SIDJ2. 



base of the femora darker ; pygidium red, very closely and finely 

 pubescent, with the row of stiff: marginal setae well pronounced. 

 Length 7-8 millim. 



Ceylon: Rambodde ; North India (F. Moore). 



The species is closely allied to P. ploiojphorus and P. denticu- 

 latus, from which it differs in the narrower hind part of the 

 pronotum ; the shape of the club of the antennae and especially 

 of the mouth of the excavation will divide it from other related 

 species. 



272. Paussus assmuthi, Wasm. 



PaussuB assmuthi, Wasmann, Notes Ley den Mus. xxv, 1904, pp. 47 

 & 58, pi. 6, fig. 4. 



Red, with the disc of the elytra black and the posterior part 

 of the pronotum pitchy, antennae and legs rufo-piceous, front 

 parts dull, elytra rather shiny ; head and thorax coriaceous, 

 coarsely but obsoletely sculptured, the former slightly impressed, 

 with a narrow black line in the centre, vertex with a small round 

 fovea ; antenna? with the club boat-shaped, long, and subparallel- 

 sided, with the apex abruptly recurved, the upper and lower 

 margins of the excavation with teeth, in the former depressed 

 and not marked, in the latter strong, setigerous ; pronotum 

 about as broad as the head, and almost as long as broad, deeply 

 divided, the anterior and posterior parts being of almost equal 

 breadth ; anterior part produced in front at the sides, with the 

 anterior margin almost straight, and the posterior margin almost 

 semicircular, raised, somewhat impressed in the middle, and 

 broadly emarginate or sinuate before the lateral angles ; on each 

 side in the deep dividing furrow there is a distinct fascia of yellow 

 pilose hairs ; the posterior part is gradually narrowed towards the 

 base, slightly impressed in the middle, and deeply and broadly 

 depressed in front ; elytra finely alutaceous and sparingly and 

 finely punctured, with short and thick setose pubescence, the 

 lateral margin set with somewhat longer red setae ; legs slender. 



Length 6 millim. 



Bombay : Kbandala {Rev. J. Assmuth). 



Two specimens were taken by the Rev. J. Assmuth in a nest 

 of Pheidole ghatica, Forel, on 22nd May, 1902. 



This species is very closely allied to P. politus, from which, 

 according to its author, it differs in its smaller size, the denticu- 

 lation of the excavation of the antennal club, the sculpture of the 

 head and pronotum, the prominent lateral angles of the clypeus, 

 and the shape of the anterior portion of the pronotum (especially 

 the emargination of the posterior margin before the lateral angles), 

 and the thickness of the red setae at the side margins of the 

 elytra. 



