a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 631 



Sectio I. Thorax quasi bipartitus. 



Species 1. Paussus microcephalus. Linn. 



Tab. XXXIII. Fig. 21. 



P. obscurfe niger, vel nigricanti-brunneus, elytris magis piceis, 

 vel rufo-piceis, capita mutico, aDtennarum clavA per- 

 magn^, oblongo-sphEeroidaed, inaequaliter elevate, ad basin 

 subelongatfe pedunculate, latere externo quadri-tuberculato, 

 infr^ in uncum obtusum unidentatum producto, thorace in 

 medio profundi excavato, parte anticd strangulo distincto, 

 valdfe et transversa elevatA, illius margine supero acuto, 

 tibiis linearibus, posticis paul6 latioribus, apice subangus- 

 tioribus. 



Paussus microcephalus. Linn. (Dahl. Diss. Acad. Biga Ins.) 

 p. 6. tab. ann. f. 6 — 10. Thunberg. Act. Suec. 1781. 170. 1. 

 Fuess. Arch. Ins. Flag. iii. p. 1. sq. ; ed. Gall. p. 42. t. 13. 

 Afzelius, Act. Soc. Linn. vol. iv. p. 263. t. 22. /. 1 — 5. 

 Herbst. Coll. iv. p. 100. t. 39. /. 6. a, b. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 

 vol. i. p. 4. p. 1737 — 1. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. ii. p. 75. 1. 

 Weidem. Arch. 1. 2. p. 297. 1. Latr. Hist. Nat. ^c. t. 11. 

 p. 208. Latr. Gen. Crust. S^c. t. 3. p. 2. Nouv. Diet. 

 d'Hist. Nat. vol. xxv. p. 58. Schonhcrr, Syn. Ins. vol. i. 

 p. 3. p. 18. Shaw, Gen. Zool. vi. part 1. p. 42. pi, 12. 

 Fncyclopcedia Londinensis, vol. xix. Genus ^ tab. Pausus, 

 Jig. 1, 2, 3. Kees' Encycl. vol. xxvi. Pausus, no. 1. 



Cerocoma microcephala, Fabr. Ent. Syst. t. i. p. 2. p. 82. 

 Leske, Naturg. i. t. 12. f. 19. 



" Habitat in Insula Bananas ejusdemque vicinitate." Afz. 



Magn. nat. Dermestes lardarii Linn.- — Long. corp. lin. 3-^. 



In Mus. Soc. Linn. Lond. (olim Banks). Dom. MacLeay 

 (olim Drury) ; etiam olim in Musaeo Linnaei (Smith) ; 

 etiam in Mus. Latreille (nunc Dejean). 



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