PAUSUS. PAUSUS. 
Generic Character. 
Antennie biarticulata', clava 
maxima, imcinata, pccli- 
cellata, mobili. 
Caput porrectum. 
Elrjtra flexilia, clcflexa, 
truncata. 
Antenna of two joints, the 
upper very large, inflated, 
moveable, and booked. 
Head stretched forwards. 
Wing-sheaths flexile, de- 
flected, truncated. 
This genus does not exist in the twelfth edition 
of the Systema Naturne, but made its first ap- 
pearance in a dissertation published at Upsal by 
Tiniueus, in the year 1775- that period only 
one species was known. In the year 1796? 
Adam Afzelius, then residing at the British settle- 
ment at Sierra Leona, discovered a second, and 
lias described both with elaborate exactness in a 
jiaper on this genus published in the fourth volume 
of the Transactions of the Linnaean Society of 
London. To this paper nothing can be objected 
but its extreme prolixity. I shall therefore take 
the liberty of here reducing it within reasonable 
compass. The etymology of the name Dr. Afze- 
lius imagines to be from the Greek signify- 
ing a pause, cessation, or rest; for Linnaeus, now 
old and infirm, and sinking under the weight of 
