26*2 Dr. AfzeliusV Obfervat'wns on the Genus Paufus* 



cylindrical. It is alfo of a lighter or chefnut colour, and all over 

 very glofify. 



The Head is larger, but its annular bate part fmaller and con- 

 tracted. It is furniihed with a little horn in the middle between 

 the eyes, which is ftraight, conic, and tipped with a tuft of cartila- 

 ginous hairs. The clypeus is only deprefied, and the jugular triangle 

 wider. 



The Eyes are large and very evident, thofe of the male black, 

 though in a certain light appearing greeniih; but thofe of the 

 female are like pearls, or as if they were covered with a cryftalline 

 membrane. The angles of the brim of the focket are fmall and 

 rounded at the top, and the hinder one lower than the eye. 



The Pivots of the antenna: are not fo difcernible, being of the 

 fame colour as the furrounding parts. The under-joint is without 

 any hairy papilla or wart. The upper joint, or the clava, is of the 

 fize of the head, quite globular, and refembles an inflated bladder, 

 being almoft: pellucid, and of a light flefh colour. The keel is no- 

 thing more than a raifed line, finilhing on the vertex in only one 

 chefnut brown tubercle covered with cartilaginous hairs. Behind 

 there is a little conical ihining hook* of the fame colour and with 

 the fame fort of hairs bending outwardly, being of equal length 

 with the horn on the head, but narrower. The pedicle is ihorr, 

 ftraight and cylindraceous. - .- 



The interior Palpi, furniihed with very vifible hinges, are a little 

 thicker towards the top, but look in fome directions as if they were 

 filiform. 



The Mandihidtf have large hinges, and the fuperior lheath almoft 

 as long as the inferior one, and nearly cylindrical. 



The Thorax is of the fame breadth as the head, and not very 

 uneven, the two parts being feparated by a furrow only on the 



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