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pressione postice bituberculata. Scutellum parvum con- 
color. Elytra thoracis parte antica pauló latiora, magis 
rufescentia, nitida, subconvexa, linearia, apice truncata, 
abdomine pauló longiora. Pedes longi tenues, castanei, 
parüm compressi. 
LiNN æo discipulus novissimus iino speciem inscribit. 
"This species appears to agree in size, colour, and general 
structure with the next, if indeed it be not specifically ideditical. 
The chief apparent differences between its characters and the 
description of P. ruber being, 1st, the formation of the head 
and thorax of the two species, and which, as I have suggested 
below, may not perhaps actually exist; and, 2ndly, the for- 
mation of the terminal joint of the antenne, which must I 
apprehend, on the other hand, be considered as indicative of 
a distinct species. ‘The circumstance of this species being pre- 
served in the. Linnean cabinet.and actually attached to the 
generic label in Linnzus's hand-writing,—the original Linnean 
species at the same time not being preserved in the cabinet,— 
renders it necessary to state that this is not the P. microcephalus. 
From Donovan's P. pilicornis it varies in colour, although when 
the antennz are seen sideways, there appears to be some spe- 
cific affinity. 
Species 3. Paussus RUBER. Thunb. 
P. totus obscure rufescens, elytris rufescentibus, capite in medio 
angustato et postice utrinque spinoso, thorace antice eroso, 
antennis clavá lata complanatá basi cordata, apice eroso- 
sulcato. Sr. ef. 
Paussus ruber. Thunb. Act. Holm. 1781. p. 170. 1; ed. Germ. 
21. p.171. Herbst. Syst. Ins. Col. 4. p. 101. 2. Afzelius, Linn. 
Trans. vol. iv. 972. 1. Schonherr. Syn. Ins. 1. part 3. p. 19. 
Rees’ 
