8 ß OEDEE—COLEOPTERA. SECTIOX—PENTAMERA.
SPECIES 10 (32)—PAUSSUS (A a) CULTEATÜS. (Mus. Berol.)
(Westw. Proe. Linn, Soc. Lond. Jnne 19, 1849, P- 59')
PLATE XIX, FIG. 1.
Totns testaceo-fulviis, punctatus et broTÍter setosns : capite supra convexo integro, angulis posticis pone
oeulos porreetis ; clypco emarginato ; antennis depressis late-falcatis apice aeutissimis, margine omni acuto,
glabris, tcnniter pnnctatis; palpis maxillaribus filiformibus; protboraee ovali antiee et postice troncato, in
medio^ parum depresso, glabro, excavationibus dnabus profundis snbrotundatis in medio notato ; pedibus subgracilibus
; tibiis eompressis et ante apicem sensim augustioribns ; podice punetato setoso margine acuto elevato.
Long-, corp. lin. 3.
H a b i t a t ; Africa Meridionalis, apnd Port Natal. In Mus. D. Melly cum nomine supra indicato, e Mus.
Regio Berol. cominunioatus ; in Mus. Hopeiano Oxonia;, &o.
SPECZES 11 (33)—PAUSSUS (A a) GEANULATUS.
(West\T. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. June 19, 1849, P- 58.)
XIX, FIG. 3.
Luteo-fuhais : disco eMrorum magis rufeseenti, podice piceo; capite inter oculos biimpresso, tuberculisque
duobus apice cxeavatis instructo ; angulis anticis supra basin antennarum produetis ; antennarum clava falcata,
apice acutissimo setaque unica apicaK instructo ; palpis maxillaribus articulo secundo fere rotuudato ; capite submtido,
gradllime cicatricoso ; pronoto glabro ; elytris opacis granulatis, singulo plaga longitudinali submembranacea
grisea, impresso ; pedibus gracilibus ; tibiis 2 posticis magis dilatatis.
Long. corp. lin. 3| .
Habitat ; Africa Meridionalis, prope Port ííatal. In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonife, &c.
SrnciES 12 (34)—PAUSSUS (A a) CHEVBOLATII.
(Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. voi. ii. new Ser. p. 93.)
PLATE XTO, FIG. 5.
Protborace bipartito; antennarum clava vix postice excavata; totus brunneo-rufus, fascia lata media elytrorum
nigra; coriaceus, subopacns; capite et pronoto punctis minimis; elytrisque punctis majoribus setiferis;
capite supra fere piano, fossnlis dnabus parvis rotundis inter partem anticam oculorum ; margine antico clypeí
fere recto acuto, angulis anticis rotimdatis ; antennarmn clava oblonga paullo curvata, dimidio basali depresso
apicali magis convexo, margine antico fere recto, acnto, apicali rotnndato, acuto; postico inter basin et medium'
sat profunde emarginato ; puncto profundo, prope angulum subobtusum basalem externum, carinaqne acata e
puncto versus medium disci extensa et• emarginatura parallela; palpis maxillaril)us articulo secundo máximo
fere rotundo, subdepresso, tertio et quarto parvis subsequalibus ; palpis labialibus articulo basali minuto, secundo
rotundato, tertio magno ovaK, apice subobliqne truncato; protborace oblongo angulis lateralibus partis antica;
capite latioribus obtusis, parte postica capitis latitudine; fossula profunda media oblonga utrinciue ad basin
luteo-setosa, carinaque parva longitudinali utrinque notata; elytris capite multo latioribus, bumeris rotundatis;
pedibus gracilibus elongatis.
Long. corp. lin. 2.
H a b i t a t ; Abyssinia. In Mus. Chevrolat, Parisiis; Mus. Hopeiano Oxonia, &c.
FAMILY—PAUSSIDIE.
SPECIES 13 (35)—PAUSSUS (AB*) NAUCEEAS.
(Benson, M'Clelland's Calcutta Journ. Nat. Ilist. ; Westw. Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond. voi. v. p. 25.)
PLATE XVI, Fio. 8.
Fusco-castaneus : protboracis lateribus antice angulatis, parte postica elongatiuscula tenuiori picea ; elytris
tboraceque setosis, illis elongatis plaga magna communi picea notatis ; capite carina elevatiuscula a clypeo
emarginato egredienti usque ad nucbam attingente ; tuberculo ad verticem posito ; clava antennarum naviformi,
marginibus denticulatis, denticulis inferioribus setigeris ; carina antice versus apicem subaugulata, versus basin
profunde emarginata, quasi scissa; tibiis mediooribus.
Long. corp. lin. 2 i poli.)
H a b i t a t ; India Orientalis. D. D. Bacon and Hutton.
Closely allied to F. denticulatus Westw., Are. Ent . ii. pi. XCII, fig. 1.
Taken by Captain T. Hutton in July, 1845, at Green Mount, Mussoorie, on tbe under side of a leaf of
nigbt-sbade. Another, apparently of the opposite sex, was captured by Dr. Bacon, on the 5th of July, 1844,
witb a sweeping net, in grass at Kockville, Landour, three miles from Green Mount.
SPBCLES 14 (36)—PAUSSUS (A b *) POLITUS.
(Westw. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. June 19, 1849, P- 58.)
PLATE XVI, FIG. 10.
Fulvo-rufus, pronoti lateribus posticis discoque elytrorum nigris : capite tuberculo conico parum elevato,
inter oculos; antennarum clava naviculari, margine antico fere recto, apice rotundato, margine postico excavato!
excavatione acuminato-ovali, margine supero simplici, infero 5-denticulato et 5-setoso; prothorace bipartito^
parte postica antica baud latiori; elytris nitidis lievibus, breviter setosis, lateribus longius setosis; podice rufo,'
setarirm serie marginato ; pedibus subgracilibus, basi femorum obscuriori.
Long. corp. lin. 3J.
Habitat ; India Orientalis (D. Bacon). In JIus. Hopeiano Oxonife (olim Westw.).
Nearly allied to P. ploiojiJiorus and cUntimlatzis, but differs in the narrowed hind part of the prothorax ; also
to P. nauceras, from which it differs in tbe glossy elytra and different shape of the antenna^.
SPECIES 15 (37)—PAUSSUS (A B *) PLOIOPHOEUS.
(Benson, M'Clelland's Calcutta Journ, Nat. Hist,; Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol. v. p. 25.)
PLATE XVI, FIG. 11,
Fuseo-castaneus : abdomine elytrorumque disco nigris politis, borum marginibus late castaneis, antennarum
clava navitormi, fissura basah profunda angusta incisa, cavaminis marginibus denticulatis, marginis iiiferioris
denticulis setigeris ; abdomine setarum brevium fascicnlis duobus munito.
Long. corp. lin. 8, ( ^ poll.)
H a b i t a t ; India Orientalis, mense Februario (Dr. J. F. Bacon), Moradabad, in Rohiltund, to tbe north of
the river Ganges. In Mus. Benson olim.
This species is of the same size and habits as P. dentimdatm Westw., and is intermediate between it and
P. nauceras.
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