426 Extract from Note Book regarding the Genus Paussus. [No. 1 38. 



with drawings, from which the accompanying sketches have been taken. 

 The originals being colored, I have preferred doing the copies in 

 outline, that a lithograph might be the more readily and correctly 

 produced, should this article be considered worthy of publication. The 

 original drawings have in all instances been taken from the living 

 insect, and which I shall be happy to forward if required. In the two 

 first, Nos. 1 and 2, the minutiae were not alluded to, and being at 

 some distance from my collection, I regret I am at present unable to 

 give any delineations of their forms ; latterly, having taken greater in- 

 terest in the genus, more has been done, and it now only remains with 

 me to assure you, that in the facts and experiments cited, I have 

 always leaned to the doubtful side, and I therefore trust, that the 

 errors which have crept in, (either as regarding the characterizing of 

 my specimens, or the conclusions I may have arrived at,) will receive 

 the indulgence an unpractised hand may merit. 



No. 1. Fig. 1. — Mhowy July 19, 1839. — Genus Paussus, length 

 7-20th of an inch, body brown, deeper in the middle of the elytra. 

 Antennae of two joints, of which the last is large, cuspiform, and having 

 dentated edges with a scallop between each tooth, apex rounded exterior- 

 ly, basal angle produced, accuminate and forming a tooth at the end of 

 the superior margins. Lower portions carinated, front view resem- 

 bling the bows of a boat, head light brown, rounded posteriorly, emar- 

 ginated in front, sunk nearly to the thorax, and bearing a minute 

 depression in the centre of its upper part in the form of a diminutive 

 horse-shoe. Eyes round when viewed from above, reniform when seen 

 in flank. Thorax sub-octagonal, with rounded margins anteriorly, 

 angulated and scolloped at the corners posteriorly, bisected in its 

 centre, the posterior portion bearing a strongly produced emargination, 

 which crosses transversely in the form of a bracket. Tarsi simple, 

 cylindrical, the last longest, the first very small, almost invisible, 

 of five joints in each leg, all of which are furnished with hairs 

 beneath. Elytra truncated posteriorly, of a uniform width through- 

 out, slightly depressed, body oblong, flattened, palpi conical, not very 

 salient, maxillary ones tumid at base and over- arching the labials. 

 Taken on a heap of manure at Plassie near Mhow. 



Note. — This is the first insect of the kind I have seen at this place, 

 and differs very much from the one I captured at Nusseerabad, which, 



