. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. ounded and not produced; elytravery finely sculptured; legs rather long and slender, red ; thepubescence is thicker (in fresh specimens) on the pronotum, head,and antenna?, and longest on the outer and hinder margins of theelytra; in any case it is much finer than the setae in several oftha allied 6 millim. Bengal : Chota Nagpur, Nowatoli, Barway, Mansar. This species has been found with Pheidole latinoda, and appearsto be not uncommon, as Wasmann records 134 examples fromChota Nagpur. The shape of the antennal
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. ounded and not produced; elytravery finely sculptured; legs rather long and slender, red ; thepubescence is thicker (in fresh specimens) on the pronotum, head,and antenna?, and longest on the outer and hinder margins of theelytra; in any case it is much finer than the setae in several oftha allied 6 millim. Bengal : Chota Nagpur, Nowatoli, Barway, Mansar. This species has been found with Pheidole latinoda, and appearsto be not uncommon, as Wasmann records 134 examples fromChota Nagpur. The shape of the antennal club, the simple apexof the pronotum, and the pubescence will easily distinguish thisspecies from its allies. 255. Paussus wroughtoni, Wasm. Paussus ivroughtoni, Wasmann,Kritisch. Verzeich. Myrmek. 1894, p. 215 ; id., Notes Leyden Mus. xxv, 1904, p. 43pi. 5, fig. 3. Of a tawny luteous colour, smooth and somewhat shining, withthe disc of the elytra pitchy, and the posterior part of the pro-notum pitchy or blackish pitchy at the sides; head broad, with. PAUSSUS. 487 the eyes prominent, clypeus strongly deflexed in the -middle,forehead not channelled, vertex with a broad round excavation ;antennae with a broad obtusely triangular club, with the apexalmost truncate, excavated, the posterior part of the excavationbeing transversely silicate ; pronotuin divided into two parts, as,broad as the head, with the sides of the anterior part rounded,and the angles bluntly rounded, the posterior part scarcelynarrower than the anterior, with the anterior angles raised, thedisc impressed in the middle and longitudinally channelled ; elytravery finely coriaceous, with a single thin seta on each side nearthe apical angle; legs moderate, with the tibiae not dilated. Length 6-6h millim. i Bombay: Poona. Several examples were taken by Wroughton in nests of Pheiclolewroughtoni, Forel, in company with Paussus soleatus. Accordingto its describer (I, c. p. 216), the species is closely allie
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