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Mr. J. O, Wzsrwoop on the Pausside, 
videtur, qui vero, vix nisi precedentis radicula,) tota 
quee restat antennze pars, clavam format permagnam, cras- 
sam, parüm compressam, obovatam, summo apice tamen 
tumescenti. Hsc clava, sub oculo armato, articulata 
attamen videtur, scilicet articulo basali brevi, semilunari, 
2do maximo clavam veram constituente, apicali brevi sub- 
mamillari tumido, his omnibus tamen sic intimé connatis, 
ut difficile distinguuntur. Clava subtüs visa, feré instar 
cochlez duplicatz. Oculi laterales, parvi, rotundati, integri, 
parüm prominuli. Ocelli nulli. Thorar quàm longus latior, 
marginatus, subcordatus, basi apiceque tamen truncatus, 
angulis anticis rotundatis posticis subrectis, suprà convexus, 
(canalicula dorsali?). Scutellum parvum triangulare. Ely- 
tra ferè obovata, scilicet, jam ad basin thorace manifeste 
latiora, versus medium aliquantüm dilatata, posteriàs an- 
gustata, apici rotundata dorso convexa. Pedes breviusculi, 
mutici, antici basi approximati, postici veró insertione a se 
invicem valdé distantes, femoribus subclavatis, elytrorum 
apicem haud attingentibus. Tibie mutice, compresse, 
posticæ pauló curvatz. Tarsi graciles, longitudine dimidie 
tibie, 4-articulati, articuli 1, 2, 3 minuti, brevissimi, api- 
calis longitudine praecedentium conjunctim, biunguiculatus. 
Abdomen planiusculum, segmentis 6, Imo reliquis multd 
majore, anali minuto. 
The preceding are the generic characters of an extremely 
interesting insect described by Dalman in his paper “Om In- 
sekter unneslutne i Copal, &c." published in the Transactions 
of the Swedish Royal Academy for 1825; but regarding which 
(notwithstanding Dalman has observed that the antenns are 
of the “forma singularis Pauso propria," adding, * De genere 
haud dubito, attamen characteres insecti genus proprie designan- 
tes, 
adjungere licet"), I feel convinced that no one, consider- 
ing 
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