m 
a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 639 
nutissima. Oculi mediocres laterales. Palpi ut in conge- 
neribus. Antenne articulo 1mo cylindrico, piceo, articulo 
ultimo magno lividé flavescenti, ovali globoso, apice sub- 
acuto latere interno tenué compresso, latere externo exca- 
vatione parva lineari-oblonga vel carináà in quà linee 4 
elevate tranverse ; basi externé in spinam obtusam pro- 
ducto. Thorax subquadratus capite vix major, bipartitus, 
flavescenti-fulvus, lateribus vel angulis portionis postice 
piceis, portio antica angusta et elevata, in medio culmen 
acutum efformans, hoc in medio subemarginatum, ejusdem 
angulis lateralibus acutis, portio postica major, lateribus 
subrotundatis disco irregulari. Elytra fere cylindrica, ab- 
domen tegentia, basi thorace feré dupló latiora et illo 
quadrupló longiora, etiam posticé quàm anteriüs pauló 
latiora, nitida, basi fulvo-rufescentia, marginibus lateralibus 
posticisque rufis, disco piceo, obsoletissimé punctata, mar- 
gine externo et apicali fasciculis aliquot setarum rigidarum 
rufarum. Corpus subtüs pallide testaceum nitidum. Pedes 
nigro-picei, mediocres ; femoribus cylindricis, posticis cras- 
sioribus ; £ibiis vix compressis ; £arsis rufis. 3 
Of this pretty nondescript species, which is nearly allied to 
P. thoracicus, I have seen only a single specimen contained in 
the cabinet of the British Museum, and which, solely in con- 
sequence of the wish expressed by me to describe and figure 
the new unnamed species of Paussus contained in that cabinet, 
was immediately designated by the manuscript name which I 
have adopted above, although I regret to state, that the species 
belonging to the neighbouring, and indeed I might add, to the 
majority of the genera of insects contained in that national 
repository, still for the most part remain unnamed and in con- 
fusion. 
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