PAUSUS. PAUSUS. 



Generic Character. 



Antenna biarticulatae, clava 

 maxima, uncinata, pedi- 

 cellata, mobili. 



Caput porrectum. 



Elytra flexilia, deflexa, 

 truncata. 



Antennae of two joints, the 

 upper very large, inflated, 

 moveable, and hooked. 



Head stretched forwards. 



Wing-sheaths flexile, de- 

 flected, truncated. 



JL HIS genus does not exist in the twelfth edition 

 of the Systema Naturae, but made its first ap- 

 pearance in a dissertation published at Upsal by 

 Linnaeus, in the year 1775. At that period only 

 one species was known. In the year 17Q6, Dr. 

 Adam Afzelius, then residing at the British settle- 

 ment at Sierra Leona, discovered a second, and 

 has described both with elaborate exactness in a 

 paper on this genus published in the fourth volume 

 of the Transactions of the Linnaean Society of 

 London. To this paper nothing can be objected 

 but its extreme prolixity. I shall therefore take 

 the liberty of here reducing it within reasonable 

 compass. The etymology of the name Dr. Afze- 

 lius imagines to be from the Greek **, signify- 

 ing a pause, cessation, or rest; for Linnaeus, now 

 old and infirm, and sinking under the weight of 



