652 : Mr.J. O. Wzsrwoopn on the Pausside, 
latis. Oculi parvi depressi oblongi. T'rophi nondum de- 
scripti. Antenne capite vix longiores, articulo 1mo brevi, 
lato, in medio emarginato, 2do? parvo subgloboso, emar- 
ginature prioris inserto; ultimo magno (magnitudine ca- 
pitis dimidio,) ovato-lanceolato, compresso, subtüs vel 
posteriüs convexo, suprà vel anteriüs concavo, apice acuto 
antrorsüm flexo. Thorax brevis, transversus, anticé multó 
latior, capiti zequalis et illud ambiens, basi apiceque trun- 
catus, suprà inzequalis, prsesertim pone medium. Scu- 
tellum mediocre, triangulare. Elytra thoracis antico vix 
latiora, oblongo-quadrata, basi ipsá transversim impressa, 
lateribus inflexo-sinuata, apice truncata, anum occultantia, 
suprà convexa. Ale ample. Abdomen breve, retusum. 
Pedes breves, validi, femoribus tibiisque valdé compressis, 
dilatatis, tarsis brevibus, cylindricis, ut videtur 4-articula- 
tis, primis tribus brevissimis, coarctatis, pilosis; 4to lon- 
giore, nudo, unguibus duobus parvis arcuatis armato. 
The detailed specific description of Paussus Bucephalus given 
by Gyllenhal in the Appendix to Schonherr’s Synonymia In- 
sectorum, and the accompanying figure, together with the obser- 
vations upon the species by Dalman in the Analecta Entomolo- 
gica, and those by Latreille in the new edition of the Règne 
Animal, vol. v. p. 93. have enabled me to draw the preceding 
characters of this otherwise undescribed genus. Dalman ob- 
serves, ** Hanc speciem a reliquis Pausis nimis distare et vix 
ejusdem esse generis, facile sibi persuasius habebit, qui, in 
Schenherri Syn. iii. App. tab. 6. figuras hujus et Pausi den- 
ticornis" (Platyrhopalus unicolor mihi) ** comparare voluerit. 
Etenim in illo et ceteris veris Pausis, caput thorace multó est 
minus, oculi veró magni, et prominentes ; cum in Pauso Buce- 
phalo, caput thoracis latitudine, oculi minuti, et os etiam alis 
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