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XXII. Obfervations on the Genus Paufus, and Defcription of a New Species. 

 By Adam Af zebus, M, D. Demonftrator of Botany in the Unherfity of 

 Upfala, F.R. $ and F. M. L. S. 



Read March 6, 1798. 



IN a difTertation published at Upfala in the year 1775, and 

 called Biga Infeftorum^ Linne defcribed two new genera of in- 

 fects, to one of which he gave the name of PauJJus. The etymo- 

 logy of this word, though he does not explain it himfelf, is probably 

 the Greek -waZai^ fignifying a paufe, a cejaiion, a reft. But then it 

 ought to be fpelt with only one/; and in either cafe it would be 

 difficult to comprehend the reafon of his applying it to the infecl 

 in queftion. The former, however, may eafily be accounted for as 

 a trifling error of the prefs ; and the latter, I imagine, it may not be 

 improper to explain in this way : — Linne, old, infirm, and fmking 

 under the weight of age and labour, faw no poflibility of continuing 

 any longer his glorious carreer : wifhing therefore to put a flop to 

 his ufual amufements and ufeful exertions, he would fay, 



hie meta laborum ; 



and {o it was as to infects, for Paufus is the laft he ever defcribed, 

 and afterwards he published only two fmall botanical diflcrtations. 



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