PAUSSUS. 



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273. Paussus bicolor, Raffr. 



Pausms bicolor, Raffray, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris (2), viii, pp. 22 & 

 45, pi. 19, fig. 25 (1885). 



Front parts and the auterior third or quarter of the elytra 

 black, the remainder of the elytra yellowish brown or pale brown, 

 head rugose, produced before the eyes, which are very prominent, 

 clypeus emarginate, vertex channelled and raised into a point be- 

 tween the eyes which bears a hollow longitudinal fovea ; antennae 

 rugose, w r ith the first joint subcylindrical, widened at the apex, 

 and the second elongate and narrow, three times as long as broad, 

 with the sides subparallel, excavate externally along its whole 

 length, the upper margin with four teeth and the lower with five, 

 the basal tooth of the latter being more or less obsolete, and the 

 rest set with small bunches of short setae ; the apex is rounded 

 and the base is produced into a long, stout, and rather sharp 

 tooth or process ; pronotum distinctly rugose, divided, with the 

 anterior part longer than the posterior, sinuate and bluntly but 

 plainly produced into an angle on each side, almost as broad at 

 the apex as the head with the eyes, the posterior part strongly 

 excavate in front, with the sides somewhat rounded, and with 

 a small fascicle of hairs at the apex on each side ; elytra much 

 broader than the pronotum, with the black portion at the base 

 dull and somewhat rugose, and the remaining lighter portion 

 scarcely punctured and gradually more shining towards the apex ; 

 pygidium brown, depressed, with the margins ciliate ; fine hairs 

 are also present at the sides of the elytra, and the surface is more 

 or less pubescent, the pubescence being in more or less regular 

 small patches on the elytra ; legs black, long and slender. 



Length 5^ millim. 



Andaman Islands. 



This species is remarkable for its sharply and equally divided 

 colour, and the long and narrow club of the antennae, as well as 

 for the length of the anterior, as compared with the posterior 

 part of the pronotum. 



574. Paussus cardoni, Wasm. 



Paussus cardoni, Wasm. Notes Leyden Mus. xxv, 1904, pp. 47 & 57. 



llufo-castaneous, with the hinder part of the pronotum and the 

 disc of the elytra black, more or less shiny, except the head which 

 is dull; head granulosely punctured, with short white setae, the 

 clypeus being narrowly emarginate in front and furnished with a 

 longitudinal black line in the centre ; vertex raised, with a trans- 

 verse semilunar fovea on the disc ; antennae with the club resem- 

 bling, but shorter than, that of P. nauceras, narrowed towards the 

 apex, with the margins of the excavation not toothed, and the 



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