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Darlington — Paussid Beetles 
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versely divided, with large trichomes in the cleft on each side, and 
pronotum also with a less sharply defined longitudinal depression, 
widest basally but deepest toward the middle. Elytra and pygidium 
without dense trichome-fringes or special marginal hairs; pygidial 
margin indistinct. Legs not flattened. Male copulatory organs as 
figured. Length (to apex of elytra), just over 7 mm. 
Holotype $ in the United States National Museum (No. 59,426) 
from Biliran Island [north of Leyte], Philippine Islands, C. F. 
Baker Collection; unique. 
This new Paussus goes in a group to which belong also P. cat- 
oxanthus Gestro, tagalicus Gestro, and kolbei Reichensperger. The 
group in the strictest sense may be confined to the Philippines, but 
it is probably related to Paussus waterhousei Westwood and some 
other Oriental-Malayan forms. The new species is probably closest 
to tagalicus (Gestro 1918), which it resembles in coloration and 
most other details, but the new species is distinguished from tagalicus 
by much more strongly tuberculate head and much narrower pos- 
terior sulcus of the antennal flagellum. 
References 
Darlington, P. J., Jr. 
1937. A new paussid bettle from Central America. Psyche 44, 56-7. 
Gestro, R. 
1918. Sui Paussidi delle Isole Filippine. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova 48, 5-8. 
Reichensperger, A. 
1938. Sudamerikanische Paussiden (Col.) und einige Vorbemerkungen. 
Rev. de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 8, 68-79. 
