JOU RNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Extract from Note Book regarding the Genus Paussus. By Capt. W. 



J. E. Boyes, 6th Light Cavalry, Assistant to the Commissioner 



Kemaon and Gurwhal, with four Plates. 



[We have, from press of matter and other causes, been hitherto unable to do justice 

 to Capt. Boyes' valuable and interesting communication : not tie last we hope from 

 his pen on a subject so little known, and of such boundless extent as Indian Ento- 

 mology ; and those who know the difficulties attending the creditable execution of deli- 

 cate plates by native artists, will we trust, as well as the author, make due allowances 

 for our anxiety that his beautiful labours should not be marred in our hands. — Eds.] 



Having observed that the genus Paussus among the Coleopterous In- 

 sects, has been placed with the Tetramerae in every work on Entomology 

 it has hitherto been my fortune to peruse, I am induced to forward to 

 you the accompanying extracts from a note book which I have kept 

 some time past, in hopes that the observations therein cited, may in- 

 duce others more competent than myself to observe, and perhaps assign 

 what I conceive might be a fitter place to the above-mentioned Genus. 



Stark in his Natural History, correctly states, as far as I can vouch 

 from my own experience, that the number of joints in the tarsus of the 

 Paussus is five ; which circumstance alone, should, I imagine, have 

 proved a sufficient reason, for the removal of thi3 Genus from the 

 Tetramerous to the Pentamerous section of Coleopterae ; but as it will 

 be observed from the following notes, that in addition to its general 

 form, which, in outward appearance approximates to many of the 

 Carabici, that it is also, similarly with several of the latter genus, 

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