ARCANA ENTOMOLOGICA. 
PLATES XLIX anv L. 
MONOGRAPH OF THE COLEOPTEROUS FAMILY PAUSSID/. 
PART Ie 
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[ Havine acquired, since the publication of my various memoirs 
on the family Paussidze, which have appeared in the Transactions 
of the Linnzean Society, vols. 16, 18, and 19; the 2nd volume of 
the Transactions of the Entomological Society, and the Entomo- 
logical Magazine, vol. 5, much additional matter relating to these 
singular insects, as well as a considerable number of new species, 
of which no figures have yet been published, I have thought that 
a complete series of coloured figures of the entire family *, most 
of them redrawn with care for the purpose of this work, would be 
received with interest by entomologists. ] 
The family Paussidee comprises a small assemblage of exotic 
coleopterous insects, varying from a quarter to rather more than 
half an inch in length, the species of which are of extreme rarity 
in collections (single individuals only of the greater portion being 
known); and at the same time so remarkable in thei structure, 
that Latreille observed, ‘‘ vainement chercherions nous dans tout 
Yordre des Coléoptéres un genre qui nous offre des caractéres aussi 
bizarres, et aussi insolites que les Paussus.”—Nouy. Dict. dH. N. 
Ve 25, Povdide 
* The figures accompanying my monograph in the Linnean Transactions, published twelve 
years ago, were uncoloured. 
NO. XIli,—Ilst MAY, 1843. B 
