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PAUSUS. 
laterally compressed, above depressed and under- 
neath having a knob, which, in moving, touches the 
bundle of hairs on the top of the under joint: the 
pedicle is long and crooked, its upper part being- 
broader, compressed, and keeled in front : the in- 
terior palpi are of a lanceolate-oblong shape, and 
furnished with A ery minute hinges: the mandibles 
have sm^dl hinges, and the inferior sheath is much 
larger than the superior: the hind-legs are a little 
shorter than the others: the joints of the tarsi are 
difficultly distinguished. This rare insect is a native 
of Banana island, and Sierra Leona in Africa. Its 
colour is a blackish brown. It is represented on 
the annexed plate both in its natural size, and 
considerably magnified. 
The second species, or Pausus spJuerocerus, is 
thus described by Dr. Afzelius. 
“ I had been in Africa almost three years before 
I happened to meet with this remarkable little 
insect; and then it was quite accidentally. There 
Avas a house building for the Governor, on an 
eminence called Thornton Hill at the South end 
of Free-ToAvn in Sierra Leona; and in the begin- 
ning of the year 1795, several apartments having- 
been got ready, so as to be habitable, one of them 
AA'as allotted to me, and I removed into it in the 
end of the month of January. I had not resided 
there many days, when one evening, having just 
lighted my candle and begun to wu'ite, I observed 
something dropping down from the ceiling before 
me upon the table; Avhich, from its singular ap- 
pearance, attracted my particular attention. It 
