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age and labour, saw no probability of continuing 

 anv longer his career of glory. He might there- 

 fore be supposed to say " hie mcta Uiborum" as it 

 in reality proved, at least' with regard to Insects; 

 Pausus being the last he ever described. 



He named the Insect Pausus microcephalus. The 

 head is uncommonly small ; the thorax broader 

 than the head, and very uneven, the two parts 

 being entirely separated by a transverse furrow ; 

 the foremost division is elevated into a sharp ridge 

 resembling a collar, and the hindmost is depressed 

 or cut out in the middle into a cavity, which is 

 obtuse behind, dilated and deepened before, and 

 encompassed on the sides with diverging and out- 

 wardly declining lobes, being rounded at the top, 

 and provided with shining hairs of a fulvous colour 

 and bent inwards: the elytra are without dots, 

 and rather longer than the abdomen : the under 

 or real wings are sooty, and without the least 

 glossiness: the abdomen has the terminal segment 

 very retuse, and the margin of the next before it 

 is visibly raised, the pivots of the antennae are 

 black, very bright, and at first sight might be 

 easily taken for eyes; the under joint is furnished 

 with a wart on the inner margin of the top, covered 

 with papillary or cartilaginous hairs: the upper 

 joint or clava is dotted, much larger than the head, 

 and of the shape of an oblong spheroid, being 

 rounded in front and compressed, with the carina 

 raised into a sharp edge, provided on the vertex 

 with four tubercles set in a row and tipped with 

 bairs, and elongated behind into an obtuse tube. 



