a6o Dr. Afzelius'j Obfervations on the Genus Paufus. 



at their top rounded, and provided with fhining hairs of a fulvous 

 colour, and incurved downwards. 



The Elytra are without dots, and rather longer than the abdomen. 

 The folds of the exterior borders, and the tubercles on the outer 

 angles of the ends, are both larger than thofe of Y . fphecrocerus. 



The Under-wings are quite footy, and without the leafl gloffinefs., 



The Abdomen has the terminal fegment very retufe, and the mar- 

 gin of the next before it vifibly railed. MMs 



The Hinder-feet are a little lhorter than the others. The thighs 

 ofthefe feet are larger than thofe of "P.fpbarocerus. The legs of 

 the four foremoft feet are linear, but thofe of the two hindmofl: 

 ones nearly lanceolated, being alfo fomewhat broader. The joints 

 of the tarfi are exceedingly difficult to be diftinguifhed. 



1. P au su s fphterocerus. 



I had been in Africa almoft three years before I happened to 

 meet with this remarkable little infe&, and then it was quite acci- 

 dentally. There was a houfe building for the Governor, on an emi- 

 nence called Thornton-hill, at the South end of Freetown, in Sierra 

 Leone ; and in the beginning of the year 1796, feveral apartments 

 having been got ready fo as to be habitable, one of them was allotted 

 to me, and 1 removed into it in the end of the month of January. 



I had not refided there many days, when one evening having 

 juft lighted my candle and begun to write, I obferved fomething 

 dropping down from the ceiling before me upon the table; which, 

 from its lingular appearance, attra&ed my peculiar attention. It 

 remained for a little while quite immoveable, as if flunned or 

 frightened, but began foon to crawl very (lowly and fteadily. I 

 then caught it, and, from the remembrance I had of the Linn<ean 

 fpecies, I dire&ly took it for a non-defcript of this genus. 



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