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XXII. Odfervations on the Genus Paufus, and Defeription of a New Species. 
By Adam Afzelius, M.D. Demonftrator of Botany in the Univerfity of 
Upfala, F.R.S. and F. M. L.S. 
Read March 6, 1798. 
N a differtation publifhed at Upfala in the year 1775, and 
called Bige Infectorum, Linné defcribed two new genera of in- 
feéts, to one of which he gave the name of Pauffus. The etymo- 
logy of this word, though he does not explain it himfelf, is probably 
the Greek watou, fignifying a pau/e, a ceffation, a reff. But then it 
ought to be fpelt with only one /; and in either cafe it would be 
difficult to comprehend the reafon of his applying it to the infect 
in queftion. ‘The former, however, may eafily be accounted for as 
a trifling error of the prefs; and the latter, I imagine, it may not be 
improper to explain in this way :—Linné, old, infirm, and finking. 
under the weight of age and labour, faw no poflibility of continuing 
any longer his glorious carreer: wifhing therefore to put a ftop to 
his ufual amufements and ufeful exertions, he would fay, 
—___———_ hic meta laborum; 
and fo it was as to infects, for Pau/us is the laft he ever defcribed, 
and afterwards he publifhed only two fmall botanical differtations. 
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