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PLATE LVIIL 
MONOGRAPH OF THE COLEOPTEROUS FAMILY PAUSSID^. 
PART II. 
The three following species, constituting the like number of 
genera, form a peculiar section in this singular family, possessing, 
in the number of joints in their antennse, an intermediate character 
between the Cerapteri and more typical Paussi and Platyrhopali. 
Genus.— CERATODERUS, IVestwood. 
(Proceedings Linn. Soc., June 1, 1841.) 
(Plate 58, fig. 1.) 
Corpus oblonguui dcprcssum punctatutn. Caput trausverso-quadratuoi, augulis rotundatis, 
supra planlusculum, postice collo instructum, angulis pone oculos rotundatis, disco inter 
oculos bi-impressum; antcnnie tiuasi G^articulalse; articulo lmo8ubcylindrico,2—5 (inter- 
mediis) tmnsversis plauis, ultimo semiorbiculari. Matidibulic (fig. 1 a) falcatae, apice 
acuUe, margino externo et interno in medio angulatis, basifiue intus lobo semipellacido 
coriaceo instructs. Maxilla? mioutae (fig. I 5) planie comea3 apice acutac, curvataj, intus 
sub apicem dente acute armatae. Palpi maxillares 4-articulati, articulo Imo minute, 2ndo 
niaguo ovato, 3tio 4toquo minoribus gracilioribus subcyllndricis. Mentum brevissimura 
(fig. 1 c) medio acute producto. labium integrum corneum ad apicem articuli 2di pal- 
pornm labialium protensum. Palpi labiales crassi articulo ultimo priEcedcnle baud multo 
majori, ovato, apice truucato. Prothorax capilo vix iatior, cordato-truucatus, trans 
medium Itnca iniprcssa uutatiis. Scutcllum mimitum. Elytm oblongo-ovata depressa, 
angulis exteruis apicalibus tubcrculo ordinarlo munilis. l^’dcs breviuscuU ; femoribus 
libiisquo compressis, bis ad apicem setigeris (fig.^ e) baud calcaratis ; tarsis distincte 5- 
articulatis, articulo basali sequenti longiorc; 4to prajccdenti parum minori. Ungues magui 
acuti. Abdomen (fig. 1 d) c segmentis 4 constans, duobus intermediis brevibus. 
Species DNiCA. — Ceratoderus hifasetatus. (Plate 58, fig, 1.) C.ferrugineus; capite, anten- 
iiurum apice, fascia lata elytrorum, femonbus tiblisqtie nigris. Long. corp. lin. 3. 
Habitat in India Oricntali. In Mus. Imp, Vindob., et Hope. 
Syk .—Paussus bifascuUuSt Kollar in Ann. Wien. Mus., 1336, t, 31, fig. 7 a & ,* Westw. 
in Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 91, pi. JO, fig. 3; Westw. in Proceed. Linn. Soc., ut supra. 
Caput nigrum, uitidum sat remote punctatum, impressionibus dnabus Ijevioribus in medio 
lincaquD teiuli impressa longitudinali in vertieem, oculi lateralea vixprominuli rotundati 
nigro-obscuri ; instrumenta cibaria ferrugiuea. Antennao ferrugincaj puuctatne articulis 
duobus apicalibus nigris. Protborax ferrugincus nltidus, llneola transversa media pro- 
funde impressa, altera luugitudinali iiiiuus profunda nec marginciu auticum ueque posticum 
attirigCDtc; bre lineola? cnicem in medio thoracis rcprcseulant. Elytra thoracis parte 
antica iatioi'a, obluuga-quadniugula, basi ipsa depressa, protborace remota subemarginata, 
lalcribus infiexis immaiginatis, apice truncata, et aJ angulos tubcrculo ferrugineo 
inslructa; abdomine breviora convexiuscula ferruginca nitida obsolctissirae-puuctata, fascia 
lata mediana nigra. Corpus subtus ferruglneum, uilidum punctatum. Pedes nigri 
omues sukequales tlbiis compressis femoribus basi tarsisque totis ferrugincis. 
This pretty species was described by Professor Kollar from a 
unique specimen in the Vienna Museum, brought from India by 
Fitchel many years ago, and which is, I apprehend, the identical 
insect mentioned by Donovan in his Insects of New Holland, as an 
undesoribed species of Cerapterus. My drawing is made from a 
