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a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 653 
modo conformatuim videatur, alias minoris momenti discrepan- 
tias, ut pretermittam. Accedunt characteribus suprà recusitis, 
ocelli, in paragrapho preecedenti laudati; undé satis ratio ap- 
paret quare hoc insectum proprii sit habendum generis, quod 
Hylotorus nobis nominatur; intermedium forté inter Pausos 
genuinos et Platypodes:;" And the following is the paragraph 
referred to in the preceding extract; * De ocellis Coleopte- 
rorum :—ocellos quosdam me observasse in Pauso Bucephalo, 
eosque satis accuraté depinxisse in Appendice ad Schcenherri 
Syn. Ins. i. tab. 6, 2, c etsi cl. Gyllenhal speciem describens 
non ocellos sed tubercula verticalia mamillata dixerit." 
Bearing in mind the observations upon the affinities of the 
family given above, I cannot consider the remark made by 
Dalman upon the situation of the genus as founded upon actual 
affinity. It is indeed to be regretted, that Gyllenhal has omitted 
to give any account of the structure of the trophi, which might 
have afforded some additional information upon the subject ; 
and the magnified figure given by Schonherr of the head is very 
obscure in regard to the structure of these organs. 
In addition to the distinguishing characters mentioned by 
Dalman may also be noticed the immersion of the head nearly 
to the eyes in the anterior cavity of the thorax, without the 
intervention of any neck,—a character not found in the two 
preceding or two subsequent genera, and sufficient of itself to 
show that the genus, if here placed, unnaturally separates — 
Paussus and Platyrhopalus. To both these genera, however, 
and especially to the latter, it is evidently allied, from the sub- 
bipartite formation of the thorax, which is evidently traceable 
in the deeply impressed transverse striga. 
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