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INSECTS. 
Genus iVTTELABUS.— Linnaeus. 
Generic Character. —Without a conspicuous labrum; with 
minute conical palpi; the antennas straight, and consisting of 
eleven joints, the last three forming a perfoliated club ; rostrum 
broad, dilated at the end; without any visible neck; mandibles 
cleft at their points ; legs terminated by two strong hooks. 
Attelabus coryli. — The Hazel Attelabus. 
Plate XCVIII. fig. 12. 
Black, the elytra red and reticulated. Inhabits Europe, and 
is found on the hazel. 
TRIBE II.-XYLOPHAGI. 
Joints of the tarsi mostly entire, or if the penult joint is bi- 
lobate, the palpi are small and conical; antennas frequently with 
less than eleven joints, perfoliated at the base, or thickened and 
clavate at the extremity. 
Genus PAUSSUS.— Linnaeus. 
Generic Character. — Antennae consisting of two joints, the 
last one very large, dentated, or hooked, nearly ovate or orbicu¬ 
lar ; with a small, transversely square, coriaceous labrum; palpi 
four, which are conical or subulate, short arid thick, the maxil- 
laries a little longer than the labials ; with a corneous, nearly 
oval labium, having a longitudinal keel in the middle*, tarsi 
short, cylindrical. 
Paussus microcephalies _The Minute-Headed Paussus. 
Plate XCVIII. fig. 14. 
The head excessively small; blackish-brown. Inhabits Sierra 
Leone. 
TRIBE III.-PLATYSTOMA. 
With all the tarsal joints entire; body oblong, depressed, 
with a triangular or cordiform head, as broad as the body, but 
narrowed into a kind of neck posteriorly; mandibles projecting, 
but most developed in the males ; labrum small; palpi short ; 
thorax nearly square ; antennae filiform. 
