﻿84 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  Smith's 
  Notes 
  on 
  Osm'ia 
  Parietina. 
  

  

  a 
  bramble 
  stick 
  ; 
  the 
  larvae 
  were 
  five 
  in 
  number, 
  placed 
  at 
  about 
  

   half 
  a 
  line 
  apart, 
  without 
  any 
  separation 
  constructed 
  between 
  

   them, 
  in 
  fact 
  exactly 
  agreeing 
  with 
  the 
  description 
  which 
  I 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  of 
  Hylceus 
  signahis 
  five 
  years 
  ago 
  ; 
  but, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  I 
  know, 
  

   it 
  was 
  Mr. 
  Thwaites 
  who 
  first 
  proved 
  the 
  Hylcei 
  to 
  be 
  working 
  

   bees, 
  and 
  the 
  subsequent 
  observations 
  of 
  myself, 
  and 
  also 
  of 
  Mr. 
  

   S. 
  Saunders, 
  have 
  confirmed 
  his 
  observations, 
  made 
  in 
  1841. 
  The 
  

   species 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  bred 
  this 
  year 
  is 
  my 
  own, 
  Hylceus 
  hyalinalus. 
  

  

  XIV. 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  some 
  new 
  Species 
  of 
  the 
  Coleopterous 
  

   Family 
  Paussidee, 
  witli 
  a 
  Synopsis 
  of 
  the 
  Family. 
  By 
  

   J. 
  O. 
  Westwood, 
  Esq., 
  F.L.S. 
  

  

  [Read 
  2nd 
  August, 
  1852.] 
  

   Having 
  already 
  on 
  several 
  occasions 
  brought 
  under 
  the 
  notice 
  of 
  

   the 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  the 
  very 
  remarkable 
  insects 
  composing 
  

   the 
  family 
  Paussidee, 
  I 
  should 
  have 
  hesitated 
  in 
  again 
  doing 
  so 
  

   were 
  not 
  the 
  additions 
  which 
  I 
  purpose 
  describing 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  

   paper 
  of 
  considerable 
  importance. 
  The 
  description 
  of 
  a 
  single 
  

   species, 
  and 
  that 
  not 
  even 
  a 
  novelty 
  in 
  science, 
  may, 
  it 
  is 
  true, 
  be 
  

   rendered 
  most 
  worthy 
  of 
  attention 
  when 
  treated 
  by 
  a 
  Reaumur, 
  a 
  

   Lyonnet 
  or 
  an 
  Audouin, 
  but 
  the 
  zoological, 
  technical 
  descriptions 
  

   of 
  a 
  few 
  isolated 
  species 
  can 
  scarcely 
  expect 
  to 
  obtain 
  notice. 
  In 
  

   the 
  present 
  instance, 
  however, 
  although 
  so 
  short 
  a 
  time 
  has 
  elapsed 
  

   since 
  I 
  published 
  a 
  revised 
  and 
  extensively-illustrated 
  Monograph 
  

   of 
  the 
  Paussidee 
  in 
  the 
  second 
  volume 
  of 
  my 
  " 
  Arcana 
  Entomolo- 
  

   gica" 
  (1845, 
  containing 
  fifty-three 
  species), 
  together 
  with 
  the 
  

   addition 
  of 
  ten 
  new 
  species 
  subsequently 
  described 
  in 
  our 
  Trans- 
  

   actions 
  and 
  Proceedings, 
  and 
  seventeen 
  new 
  species 
  in 
  the 
  Pro- 
  

   ceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Linnaean 
  Society, 
  I 
  am 
  able 
  by 
  the 
  exertions 
  of 
  

   several 
  friends 
  to 
  extend 
  the 
  limits 
  of 
  the 
  family 
  still 
  further; 
  and 
  

   now 
  that 
  the 
  natural 
  habits 
  of 
  the 
  insects 
  have 
  been 
  discovered, 
  

   there 
  is 
  likely 
  — 
  to 
  use 
  a 
  very 
  poor 
  pun 
  — 
  to 
  be 
  no 
  pause 
  in 
  the 
  

   discovery 
  of 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Paussidee. 
  Major 
  Champion, 
  for 
  

   instance, 
  discovered 
  several 
  specimens 
  belonging 
  to 
  two 
  distinct 
  

   new 
  species 
  under 
  a 
  single 
  stone 
  at 
  Hong 
  Kong, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Benson 
  

   found 
  so 
  many 
  specimens 
  of 
  P. 
  Parrianus 
  in 
  their 
  natural 
  haunts 
  

   at 
  the 
  Cape 
  of 
  Good 
  Hope, 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  able 
  at 
  leisure 
  to 
  watch 
  

   their 
  habits 
  in 
  detail. 
  (See 
  Trans. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  vol. 
  v. 
  p. 
  30.) 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  recently 
  described, 
  and 
  those 
  now 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time 
  

   noticed, 
  form 
  portions 
  of 
  collections 
  made 
  by 
  different 
  collectors 
  

   in 
  various 
  parts 
  of 
  Asia, 
  Africa 
  and 
  Australia. 
  Of 
  these 
  a 
  consi- 
  

  

  