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tubercle covered with cartilaginous hairs: behind 

 there is a little conical shining hook, of the same 

 colour and with the same sort of hairs bending 

 outwardly, being of equal length with the horn on 

 the head, but narrower: the pedicle is short, strait, 

 and cylindrical. The interior palpi, furnished 

 with very visible hinges, are a little thicker to- 

 wards the top, but look in some directions as if 

 they were filiform : the mandibles have large 

 hinges, and the superior sheath almost as long as 

 the inferior one, and nearly cylindrical. The 

 thorax is of the same breadth with the head, and 

 not very uneven, the two parts being separated by 

 a furrow only on the sides and underneath, the 

 foremost above and on the sides resembling an 

 annular segment, and the hinder one impressed 

 in the middle with a mark somewhat like two 

 small diverging wings of a blackish silvery colour. 

 The elytra are shorter than the abdomen, and 

 minutely punctated: the under wings are of a 

 shining and changeable violaceous colour, and not 

 very dark: the abdomen has the terminal segment 

 a little convex, and in the female more so than in 

 the male: underneath, the third and last segments 

 are darker than the others, the legs are all of equal 

 length; the tarsi longer than those of the Pausus 

 microcephalus, and have both the joints and the 

 claws much more distinct." 



