254 Dr> Atzelius'j Obfervations on the Genus Paufus. 



hairs. The tarfi are nearly cylindraceous and very (lender, com- 

 poied of four joints, three of which are of equal length, bvit the outer- 

 moft longer, all marked at their tops with a hair on each fide, and 

 otherwife hardly diftinguiihable. At the end of the tarfi there are 

 two longilh claws, crooked inwards, and diverging. 



From this generic defcription it is very eafy to be convinced that 

 Paufus never can be of the fame genus as Cerocoma. And it is 

 rather a matter of furprize that Fabricius, who always has been 

 ready to divide the genera of Linne, and fometimes has done it for 

 reafons, I fear, not very urgent, fhould now unite two i'o ftrikingly 

 and effentially diftinft. lie fays, it is true, «« that he has only put 

 it in here for future examination, that it fcems to be a genus of it- 

 felf, and that he does not know it rightly," But then it might 

 perhaps have been as well not to have mentioned it at all. Be this 

 however as it may, in order to prevent any farther mifconception on 

 the fubje&, I will here (late all the principal circumftances by 

 which Cerocoma -differs from Paufus. 



The Body is of an oblong fhape, and almoft of an equal breadth 

 throughout, the head and the thorax being fcarcely narrower than the 

 elytra. It is found without the tropics in the South of Europe and 

 the molt Northern parts of Africa, on plants growing in open fields. 



The Bead is oval, and inflected downwards. 



The Antenna are fmall, fcarcely as long as the thorax, and com- 

 pofed of many joints of various fize and lhape, particularly thofe of 

 the male. And therefore I do not comprehend what could induce 

 Fabricius to call the joints equal, and the antenna? moniliformes, 

 efpecially as he adds that the latter are irregular es ; for this term, 

 according to the fignification he has attached to it himfelf, flatly 

 contradicts the former aflertions. 



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