246 Dr. Afzelius'j Obfervatlons on the Genus Paufus. 



Infedles de Fuefsly. Here occurs nothing but what is found in the 

 original edition, except a new blunder, and a remark in the notes to 

 this purport : " that there are two other fpecies of Paufus mentioned 

 in the memoirs of the Swedifh Academy, and that Fabricius, not 

 having examined thefe infects as minutely as he ought, has placed 

 them amongfl: his Cerocoma, till there may occur an opportunity of 

 determining their genus with more accuracy." 



Thefe are all the writers I have feen who treat on the genus and 

 fpecies of Paufus. And it is very remarkable, that almoft every one 

 of them has committed fome miftake. This may be excufable, 

 when there are feveral accounts of a natural production from ocular 

 obfervations of different perfons; but not fo when there exifts 

 only one, as is the cafe in regard to Linne's Paufus ; for though 

 Thunberg and Fabricius may both have feen it, yet neither of them 

 has added any thing to illuftrate it but what might have been col- 

 lected from Linne's defcription and figures of it, the latter having 

 only created greater confufion than any before him, by putting 

 it among the Cerocomcz. As to Fuefsly, Gmelin, Herbft, and 

 Fuefsly's tranflators, I am almoft certain they never faw a Paufus ; 

 and therefore, whatever they have written, they ought to have 

 taken from Linnc, and are to be elteemed in proportion as they have 

 copied him faithfully.— But I fhall flate their refpedive miftakes 

 more at large, when I come to the hiftory of P. mlcrocephalus in 

 particular, and (hall now in the firft place fettle the chara&eriftics 

 of the genus. 



Befides the Linnaean fpecies, which I have examined here in Lon- 

 don, I brought another nondefcript with me from Africa, which, in 

 imitation of Linne's deriving the fpecific name of his from the 

 Greek, I call (from c<pa!pcc and xepai) V.fpbterocerus, on account of 

 each of its antennas bearing at its end a large and remarkable globe. 



Both 



