COLEOPTEROUS FAMILY PAUSSID^. 
irr 
culated, and the basal external angle produced into a broad rounded 
lobe. The maxillary palpi have the second joint very broad. The 
prothorax is bipartite, the sides of the anterior part being acutely 
angulated with a transverse elevated carina, interrupted in the 
middle, the posterior half of the prothorax with the sides elevated 
and the middle deeply impressed, the hind part having two 
elevated and rounded lobes in the middle. The elytra are pale 
luteous, somewhat shining, with the hinder part darker, very finely 
rugose, nearly twice as broad as the prothorax, ha\dng near each of 
the posterior lateral angles a small fascicle of reddish rigid setae. 
The legs arc elongated, slender, and punctated, the posterior tibiee 
being rather broader than the others ; the tarsi distinctly five- 
jointed, but with the calcaria obsolete and replaced by a few short 
bristles, similar to those at the extremity of the joints of tho tarsi. 
The anal segment of the abdomen is furnished in the middle with 
two curved horny points. The head and thorax beneath are pale 
coloured, but the abdomen and mesosternum are darker. 
Fig. 2 h represents the head and prothorax, seen sideways; 
fig. 2 a, the antenna seen from behind, showing the excavated part, 
mth its sinuato-tuherculated margins; and fig. 2 c, the underside 
of the abdomen. 
Species XI.—Paussus Boysii, IVestw, 
(Plate 92, %. 2, and pi. 90, fig. 6.*) 
Luteo-fulvus, antonDarum clava anticc valde depressa, tnaigmibus excavationis subcrenulatis, 
capite supra in medio excavationc rotunda, elytris basi apicoque exceptis nigricantibus 
singulo versus apicem sctula instnicto. Long. corp. lin. 3J. 
Habitat in India orientali, I). Boys. 
Syn. — Pauss'us No. 6, Boys in Jonm. of Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, N.S., No. 54, p, 433, and 
Tab. ann., fig. 6. 
The kindness of Captain Boys in sending to me his specimen of 
this insect from India, enables me to determine its situation between 
P. Stevensianus and fulvus, as it possesses the rugose elytra, armed 
near the tip with a pair of short curved bristles of the former, 
and the deep circular excavation of the head of the latter; it is 
also much more glossy than the latter, and its legs are very much 
♦ TheYvbole of the row of figures at the foot of pi. 90 are copied from the plates accom¬ 
panying Captain Boys' memoir, of which he justly complains to me in his letters, that they 
are very unfaithful copies of his drawings, which is certainly the case, Captain B. having sent 
me bis original figures as well as the insects themselves. 
NO. XXIV.— Ist JUNE, 1845, N 
