PAUSUS. 
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«\gc and labour, saw do probal)ility of continuing 
any longer his career of glory. He might there- 
fore be supposed to say “ hie meta laborinn," as it 
in reality proved, at least with regard to Insects ; 
Pausus being the last he ever described. 
He named the Insect Pausus microcephalus . The 
head is uncommonly small ^ the thorax broader 
than the head, and very uneven, the two ])arts 
being entirely se})arated by a transverse furrow ; 
the foremost division is elevated into a sharp ridge 
resembling a collar, and the hindmost is depressed 
or cut out in the middle into a cavity, which is 
obtuse behind, dilated and deepened before, and 
encompassed on the sides with diverging and out- 
wardly declining lobes, being rounded at the top, 
and ])rovided with shining hairs of a fulvous colour 
and bent inwards: the elytra are without dots, 
and rather longer than the abdomen: the under 
or real wings are sooty, and without the least 
glossiness : the abdomen has the terminal segment 
very retuse, and the margin of the next before it 
is visibly raised, the pivots of the antenme are 
black, very bright, and at hrst sight might be 
easily taken for eyes; the under joint is furnished 
with a wart on the inner margin of the top, covered 
with papillary or cartilaginous hairs: the upper 
joint or clava is dotted, much larger than the head, 
and of the shape of an oblong spheroid, being 
rounded in front and compressed, with the carina 
raised into a sharp edge, provided on the vertex 
with four tubercles set in a row and tipped with 
hairs, and elongated behind into an obtuse tube. 
