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SPECIES 22 (44)—PAUSSÜS (A B*) "VVATEEHOUSII.
PLATE XVI, FIG. 4.
Rufo-picens, hand nitidus, tenue et minute punetatus et subgrauulatus : capite antico prol'uude emarginato
(íig. 4 c), vertice exeavatione polita, rotundata, lateribus elevatis acutis, oaiiali frontali eonjuneta (fig-. 4 i, rapite
e latere viso) ; antennarnm clava longitudine capite et prothorace aiquali, longa, plana, punctata, lateribus
fere parallelis, postice excavatione valde angusta longitudinem totam occupante, marginibus tubercnlis 5 a;quidistantibus
instruetis (ñg. 4a); apice rotundato, basi truncata ángulo externo vix producto; collo angusto;
protborace bipartito, parte antica capite latiori utrinque angulata, et transverse elevata, acumino in medio interrupto,
parte postica angustiori lateribus fere rectis ; medio disci profnnde impresso, lateribus impressionis
elevatis et subacuto augulatis, intus setosis; elytrorum bumeris elevatis; lateribus setis mediocribus piceis
vestitis; disco singuli versus sutin-am ante medium impressione ovali nigrieanti nitida notato; pedibus sublongis
angustis concoloribua ; tibiis eompressis ; elytris apice subfulvis.
Long. corp. lin. SJ.
Habitat ; Ponang. In Mus. Britann.
This species is closely allied to P. hjstrix, but differs in its obscure colour, in the shape of the clava of
the antenna?, and its longitudinal excavation, as well as in the form of the impression of the disc of the hind
part of the thorax.
SPECIES 23 (45)—PAUSSÜS (A a * ) SPEFCII.
(•\Testw. Proe. Eut. Soc. Lond. January, 1864, 3rd Ser. vol. i. p. 190.)
PLATE STI I I , FIH. S.
Oblongus, subdepressus, subnitidus, eastaneo-rufus : elytris, basi apicequo exceptis, nigris ; minute punetatis,
punctis setas lúteas emittentibus; capite antico emarginato, et impressione longitudinaU notato; antennarum
elava reniformi, subdepressa, margine antico acuto, postico supra in medio impressione semi-orali distmcto
; prothorace capitis latitudine, bipartito, angulis lateralibus partis anticse rotundatis, disco hujus partis
inermi, medio prothoraeis exeavatione profunda impressa; elytris subangustis; femoribus tibiisque omnibus
eompressis sublatis.
Long. corp. lin. 2J.
H a b i t a t ; India Oriontalis (?). lu Mus. Hopeiano Oxonis.
SPECIES 24 (46)—PAUSSÜS (Ab**) AFZELII.
(Westv. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. voi. iii. 2nd Ser. p. 82, 1853.)
PLATE XVII, FIG. 6.
^ Fulvus, vix nitidus, tenuissime seaber : elytris nigris, basi sutura apieeque fulvis, luteo-setosis ; capite
antico oblique declivi, parte postica capitis semieirculariter et abrupte depressa; antenuarum clava oblonga
curvata subeultrata, margine antico acuto, apice rotundato, margine postico eanaliculato, canali elongate angusto,
pagina ejns superiori tubercnlis sex minutis, impressionibus totidem transversis conjunctis ; pagina inferiori
parum^ sinuata integra ; prothorace capite parum angustiori subbipartito, parte antica ìongiori, lateribus rotundatis,
in medio supra canali longitudinali fortiter impresso, medio disci fossula trigona impresso, antioe utrinque
tubérculo parvo rotundato instruoto, parte postica sensim latiori ; lateribus obliquis ; elytris prothorace multo
latioribus, lateribus subparallelis ; pedibus angustis eompressis ; eorpore infra obscurius fulvo ; palpis maxillaribus
articulo secundo magno ovato, labialibus articulo ultimo ovali apice subacuto.
Long corp. Hn. 3.
Plabitat ; CalTraria (D. V7ahlberg). In jNIus. Reg. Holm.
SYN. : Pcmsms Imtus. Gerstaecker in Stettin Zeit. 1867, p. 430.
F A M I L Y — P A U S S I D / E . 9 1
This species is closely allied to P. De Geerii, but is well distinguished by the narrow prothorax, divided
into two nearly equal parts : the anterior with the sides rounded, and the hinder part widest behind.
Having made a careful drawing of the type specimen of P. latns, Gerstaecker, in the Berlin Museum, I am
able to aflirm its identity with 1'. Jfzelii.
SPECIES 26 (47)—PAUSSUS (Ah**) PAURIANUS.
(Westw. Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. vol. v. p. 29, pi. II, fig. 3.)
PLATE XVII, FIG. 9.
Testaeeus, elytris nigris, basi apieeque testaeeis ; antennarum clava naviculari subeurvata margine postico
subserrato, margineque infero exeavationis integro ; basi postice in eornu rectum producto ; apice antico rotundato,
postico subangulato; capite supra subeoncavo ; prothorace nitido subbipartito ; parte antica lateribus
angulato-productis et subacutis, capite latiori, disco in tubereula duo rotundata elevato ; parto postica angusta,
disco eariuis elevatis literam W simulantibus, instrueto ; elj'tris eoriacois subopacis; pygidio rufo-piceo, semieirculari,
lateribus et carina mediana subelevatis; pedibus gracilibus.
Long. corp. lin. 2i.
H a b i t a t ; Port Natal et Cape of Good Hope (D. Benson). In Mus. Hopeiano Oxoniaì, &c.
The flattened crown of the head, with the lateral margins slightly elevated, distinguishes this speeios.
The narrow form of the elava of the antenna; (fig. 7 a, seen from the f ront ; 7 b, seen from behind), and the black
disc of the elytra, separate it from P. ruber and cocUearins ; its narrow legs and red colour separate it from
P. exeavatus ; and the narrower hind part of the prothorax from P . Kliirjn and LatreilUi.
From a series of notes on the capture of this species in the neighbourhood of Cape Town, by the late W. HBenson,
Esq., which I published in the Transactions of the Entomological Society, as above referred to, it is
evident that it lives habitually in auts' nests and under stones and bark, and that it secretes a liquid capable of
staining the fingers when touched.
SPECIES 2G (48)—PAUSSUS (A b **) AUDOUINII.
(Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. vol. ii. new Ser. p. 92.)
PLATE XVII, FIG. 8.
Prothorace subbipartito : antennarum clava postice excavata ; totus piceus, sublajvis, parum nitidus, punctis
minutissimis setulosis vagis ; capite subquadrato, antiee in medio angulato, emarginato ; vertice convexo, punctis
duobus profundis inter partem anticam ocnloruni, inter se et oeulos equidistantibus ; palpis maxillaribus articulo
soeundo ovato compresso; antennarum clava capite majori, oblonga, apice rotundato, fere plana, margine postico
parum erassiori oblique excavato, exeavatione in fossulas sex divisa, margine supero-postieo recto, inferopostico
parum sinuato, disco pnnetatissimo ; prenoti parte antica capite 0 quarta parte latiori, lateribus reete
angulatis, disco postice elevato, in medio autem impresso, parto postica e prEecedonti fossula profunda setosa
separata, angustiori, capite fero aìquali, bre^'iter cordato-truncata, in medio profondo impressa, lateribus in
discum angulato-elevatis, medio postice in lobos duos ovales elevato ; clj'tris pronoti parto antica latioribus,
postico sensim panilo latioribus, apice recto truncatis; podice la:vi plano, margine omni tenui elevato luteosotoso
; pedibus latis, valde eompressis ; tibiis fere triangnlaribus ; corporo infra nigro, metasterno et ventre
rufìs, hujus segmento ultimo iiigro.
Long. corp. lin. 3.
Habitat ; Bengucla, Africa Oeeid. Tropiealis. lu Mus. Jekol, Parisiis.
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