Dr. AfzeliusV Obfcrvations on the Genus Paufus. 245 



Fuefsly, without taking notice of what Thunberg had written on 

 the fubjecT:, republifhed Linne's original account in the 3d number 

 of his Archiv der InfcClengefchichte, printed at Zurich 1 7 83. The 

 whole defcription, as well as all the figures, are exprefsly copied ; but 

 the other remarks are tranflated into the German language. 



Gmelin, in his Llnnai Syj hma Naturce of 1788, feems to have con- 

 fined himfelf only to the perufal of the text of Fuefsly, tranfcribing 

 even his error) which he furely could never have done, had he at 

 the fame time confulted the original of Linne. 



Herbft, in his Natur Syjiem der Jnfeflen, the 4th part of the Cole- 

 optera, published at Berlin 1792, has inferted both Linne's and 

 Thunberg's fpecies, but tranflated their defcriptions of them into 

 German, and given them new fpecific characters in Latin, though 

 not very recommendable for corre&nefs either fcientific or typo- 

 graphical. To this he has fubjoined a plate, reprefenting, amongft 

 many other infects, alfo two figures of P. microcephalus, and two 

 of P. Uneattis ; the former copied from the differtation of Linne, and 

 the latter from Thunberg's paper in the Tranfaclions of the 

 Swedilh Academy of Science. 



Fabricius began in the fame year, or 1792, to publifh at Copen- 

 hagen his Entomologia Syfteniatica. Not having before taken notice of 

 Paufus in any of his writings, he now introduced it in this work ; not 

 however as a diftinct genus, but putting it under his Cerocoma y he 

 calls Linne's infect C. microcephala, and the figured one of Thun- 

 berg C. lineaia. The other, or Paufus ruber •, he does not men- 

 tion at all. 



An anonymous author, or probably more than one, have laftly 

 publifhed atVVinterthour in the canton of Zurich, in the year 1794, 

 a French tranflation of Fuefsly, combining all his feparate numbers 

 in one continued volume, and calling it Archives de V Hifloire des 



Infecles 



