a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 653 



modo conformatum videatur, alias minoris momenti discrepan- 

 tias, ut praetermittam. Accedunt characteribus supr^ recusitis, 

 ocelli, in paragrapho praecedenti laudati ; unde satis ratio ap- 

 paret quare hoc insectum proprii sit habendum generis, quod 

 Hylotorus nobis nominatur ; intermedium fortfe inter Pausos 

 genuinos et Platypodes :" And the following is the paragraph 

 referred to in the preceding extract; " De ocellis Coleopte- 

 rorum : — ocellos quosdam me observasse in Panso Bucephalo, ' 

 eosque satis accurate depinxisse in Appendice ad Schcenherri 

 Syn. Ins. i. tab. 6, 2, c etsi cl. Gyllenhal speciem describens 

 non ocellos sed tubercula verticalia mamillata dixerit." 



Bearing in mind the observations upon the affinities of the 

 family given above, I cannot consider the remark made by 

 Dalraan upon the situation of the genus as founded upon actual 

 affinity. It is indeed to be regretted, that Gyllenhal has omitted 

 to give any account of the structure of the trophi, which might 

 have afforded some additional information upon the subject; 

 and the magnified figure given by Schonherr of the head is very 

 obscure in regard to the structure of these organs. 



In addition to the distinguishing characters mentioned by 

 Dalman may also be noticed the immersion of the head nearly 

 to the eyes in the anterior cavity of the thorax, without the 

 intervention of any neck, — a character not found in the two 

 preceding or two subsequent genera, and sufficient of itself to 

 show that the genus, if here placed, unnaturally separates 

 Paussus and Platyrhopalus. To both these genera, however, 

 and especially to the latter, it is evidently allied, from the sub- 

 bipartite formation of the thorax, which is evidently traceable 

 in the deeply impressed transverse striga. 



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