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latter having the tips obliquely truncate, and the angles acute. 
The tarsi have the basal joint very minute, as well as the 
calearia, which are almost indistinct. The abdomen (fig. 2c), in 
the specimens in the collections of the Rev. F. W. Hope and 
M. Westermann, is simply 4-jointed, without any exserted appen- 
dages. [Fig. 26 represents the front part of the body, seen 
sideways. | 
The figure published by me in the Transactions of the Entomo- 
logical Society, above referred to, was engraved from a slight 
sketch made during my visit to Berlin. The present drawing is 
from a specimen sent to me from Copenhagen by M. Westermann 
for examination. 
Species 5.—Paussus ruritarsis, Sam. MS. 
(Plate 89, fig. 4.) 
Fulvo-flavescens ; antennarum articulo basali, prothoracis angulis posticis, elytrorum disco 
pedibusque piceis; tarsis rufis, antennarum clava ovata convexa basi externe in spinam 
obtusam producto. Long. corp. lin. 3. 
Habitat ? In Mus. Britann. 
Paussus rufitarsis, Westw., in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xvi., p. 638, pl. 33, fig. 25—27. 
The form of this species is comparatively short and broad ; it is 
somewhat cylindric, and very delicately punctured, and slightly 
pubescent. The head is subtriangular, porrected, and nearly as 
large as the prothorax, with the neck narrowed, and the anterior 
part truncate and slightly emarginate; it is of a pale flavescent 
colour ; and in the middle, between the eyes, is a rounded excava- 
tion, having a minute round impression on either side; between 
the eyes and the base of the antennze is also a rounded impression 
on each side of the head. The maxillary palpi have the second 
joint very broadly ovate and compressed. The basal joint of the 
antennee is pitchy, and the second pale livid-flavescent, the latter 
elongate-globose, rather pointed at the apex, slightly carinated 
along the anterior margin, with the upper angle of the base 
produced into an obtuse pitchy spine; the middle of the upper or 
hinder margin, with a rather depressed oblong impression, in which 
are four slightly elevated transverse ribs. The prothorax is 
subquadrate, scarcely broader and larger than the head, and 
bipartite ; the anterior portion fulvous-yellow, with the sides of 
the hinder portion pitchy ; the anterior part is elevated and short ; 
along the middle runs an angulated ridge, which is interrupted in 
the middle, the lateral angles subacute ; the hinder part is larger, 
