of the Paussida, and notice of a fifth species, 467 



the sides, as in Ceratoderus, and fringed with short bris- 

 s ; the head is shagreened, and has the two round depres- 

 ns between the eyes at the end of a short channel from 

 ! clypeus, and not so far back as in Ceratoderus. 

 rhe femora and tarsi shew a connexion with Ceratoderus. 



the tarsi the five joints are distinctly visible, and the basal 

 at is nearly as long as the next three together. 

 [f not already named by Mr. Westwood, I propose the 

 signation of Leiomatocerus for the genus, from Aeuoua 

 lentum, and Kspag corner. 



[ took two specimens under a brick on the 2nd January 

 t4, at Bhitoara on the Ganges, the port of Futtehpore, 

 the lower Doab. They were in company with Platyrho- 

 \us denticornis. A third specimen, I had the good fortune 

 take on an ant's nest, under a stone, at Noushehra on the 

 una canal, in the district of Seharanpore, at the head of 



Doab, on the 16th January 1845. 

 Already have fifty-one different species of this singular 

 I varied family been figured, the major part of which are 

 abitants of Asia, and nearly two-thirds of these of Bri- 

 t Continental India, yet few examples are known of each 

 cies, and of some but a single specimen. The best fur- 

 led European cabinets possess a very small number of 

 cies ; any light therefore, which can be thrown on their 

 mts and habits, must be acceptable to Entomologists, and 

 apology will be required for the insertion of the following 

 ices of the capture of specimens by Dr. Bacon and myself. 

 )t. Boys has given notes of some eight or ten captures in 

 work above quoted, which might be added to these. 

 I vast number are doubtless annually destroyed during 



warmer months in the vast extent of country which 



Paussidae inhabit, from the Himalaya to the sea, by 

 ing at night into the oil-lamps of the natives, which then 

 1 the land ; lights forming a great attraction to many 

 cies when the moon does not shine. Many others are 



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