1843.] Extract from Note Book regarding the Genus Paussus. 429 



make a virtue of necessity, and strip myself to a pair of light trowsers 

 and white night cap, but for which I considered myself amply repaid in 

 the capture of many new, and to me rare, specimens. Among the most 

 common were several varieties of Carabus, four entirely new to me, 

 Hegeter, Tenebrio, Agieliae, and swarms of minute Capridse. Of the 

 rarer sorts I took two new Cicindelas, two Colymbetes and very beau- 

 tiful Haliplus, which I had never before seen. All these came around 

 the light in numbers, but Staphylini and the smaller Orthopterous 

 insects were incredibly numerous. I was almost black with them, and 

 the sensation produced over my back, arms and legs, from the multi- 

 tude of grasshoppers and crickets which were constantly jumping on or 

 off me, and crawling in every direction, was very similar to what is 

 called "needles and pins," or a " foot asleep." Great indeed was the 

 enjoyment of a bathe with some dozens of ghurrahs filled with cold 

 water, which I poured over my head before retiring to rest at one a. m. 

 I should also mention, that on visiting the Commandant of my Regi- 

 ment this morning, I found that he also had captured a Paussus last 

 night, similar to those I have been lately taking, between the hours of 

 nine and ten p. m., and rather strangely to say, his specimen had 

 shared the same fate as my last, having fallen into the oil-burner on 

 the table. 



No. 4, Fig. 4. — Sultanpore, Benares, July 24, 1841. — This Paussus 

 has already been figured in the 2d vol. of the Transactions of the Ento- 

 mological Society, by W. W. Saunders, Esq., but as his drawing though 

 highly characteristic, must (I conclude) have been taken from a dead 

 specimen, perhaps a dried one, I have thought it worth while, if only for 

 my own satisfaction, to make another delineation of it from a living 

 specimen which I this morning captured, having succeeded in rescuing it 

 without damage from the gripe of a small black ant, which in spite of 

 its struggles was bearing it along with the utmost facility, holding on 

 by one of its antennae. Length seven-twentieths of an inch. The head is 

 rounded posteriorly and sunk into the thorax. A deep cavity with edges 

 in the form of a horse-shoe, the anterior margins of which are levelled 

 towards the front, is a prominent feature in this organ. The bevelments 

 terminate at the front just above the forehead, at which spot they 

 turn upwards a little, and appear to spread out in the form of a rather 

 deeply emarginated clypeus. In the centre of this excavation are two 



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