PAUSUS. 
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tubercle covered with cartilaginous hairs: behind 
there is a litile conical shining hook, of the same 
colour and witli the same sort of liairs bending 
outwardly, being of equal length with the horn on 
the head, but )iarrower: the pedicle is short, strait, 
and cylindrical. The interior palpi, furnished 
with very vdsible hinges, are a little thicker to- 
wards the top, but look in some directions as if 
they were filiform : the mandibles have large 
hinges, and tlie su})erior sheath almost as long as 
the inferior one, and nearly cylindrical. The 
thorax is of the same breadth with the head, and 
not very uneven, the two parts being separated by 
a furrow only on the sides and underneath, the 
foremost above and on the sides resembling an 
annular segment, and the hinder one impressed 
in the middle with a mark somewhat like two 
small diverging wings of a blackish silvery colour. 
The elytra are shorter than the abdomen, and 
minutely punctated: the under wings are of a 
shining and changeable violaceous colour, and hot 
very dark: the abdomen has the terminal segment 
a little convex, and in the female more so than in 
the male: underneath, the third and last segments 
are darker than the others, the legs are all of equal 
length ; the tarsi longer than those of the Pausus 
microcephahis, and have both the joints and the 
claws much more distinct.” 
