a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 609 



rales SfC. p. 225, under the name of Paiissili, and which he 

 placed between the Bostrichidce and the Cisida. This family 

 name was altered in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia by Dr. Leach 

 to Paussides. In the Regne Animal, the two genera considered 

 a subgenera together form the second genus of the first section of 

 the Xylophages between the Scolytidce and the Bostrichidce. And 

 in the Analecta Entomologica, Dalman proposed to establish 

 the species, previously named by him Paussus Bucephalus^ into 

 a distinct genus named Hylotorus. 



To these three genera I have now the pleasure of adding 

 several others ; and the following may be regarded as the prin- 

 cipal typical characters of the family. 



Ordo. COLEOPTERA. 



Sectio. Pentamera? Latr. 



' (Chilopodomorpha ? MacLeay.) 



Stirps. Necrophaga? MacLeay. 



Familia. Paussid^ mihi. Paussili. Latr., S^c. Paussides. 



Leach, Edin. Encycl. 



Genus typicum. Paussus. Linn. 



Familia Character typicus. 



Corpus oblongo-quadratum, subdepressum, antice subacumi- 



natum. 

 Caput parvum, subtriangulari-globosum, porrectum, collo in- 



structum. 

 ANTENNiE permagnse, crassee, articulis 2 — 10 plils miniisve 



depressae (pro magnitudine insectorum). 



Palpi magni, coriacei, exserti, inaequales. 



Labium magnum, coriaceum, planum. 



Thorax plus miniisve bipartitus. 



Elytra postice quadrata. 



4 I 2 Pedes 



