674 Mr. J. 0. Westwood on the Paussida, 
videtur, qui vero, vix nisi praecedentis radicula,) tota 
quae restat antennae pars, clavam format permagnam, cras- 
sam, parhm compressam, obovatam, summo apice tamen 
tumescenti. Haec clava, sub oculo armato, articulata 
attamen videtur, scilicet articulo basali brevi, semilunari, 
2do maximo clavam veram constituente, apicali brevi sub- 
mamillari tumido, his omnibus tamen sic intimb connatis, 
ut difficile distinguuntur. Clava subths visa, fere instar 
cochleae duplicatae. Oculi laterales, parvi, rotundati, integri, 
parhm prominuli. Ocelli nulli. Thorax quam longus latior, 
marginatus, subcordatus, basi apiceque tamen truncatus, 
angulis anticis rotundatis posticis subrectis, supn\ convexus, 
(canalicula dorsali ?). Scutellum parvum triangulare. _ Ely- 
tra fer& obovata, scilicet, jam ad basin thorace manifesto 
latiora, versus medium aliquantum dilatata, posterihs an- 
gustata, apici rotundata dorso convexa. Pedes breviusculi, 
mutici, antici basi approximate postici verb insertione a se 
invicem valde distantes, femoribus subclavatis, elytrorum 
apicem haud attingentibus. Tibia, muticae, compressae, 
posticae paulb curvatae. Tarsi graciles, longitudine dimidiae 
tibiae, 4-articulati, articuli 1, 2, 3 minuti, brevissimi, api- 
calis longitudine praecedentium conjunctim, biunguiculatus. 
Abdomen planiusculum, segmentis 6, lmo reliquis multb 
majore, anali minuto. 
The preceding are the generic characters of an extremely 
interesting insect described by Dalman in his paper “Om In- 
sekter unneslutne i Copal, & c” published in the Transactions 
of the Swedish Royal Academy for 1825 ; but regarding which 
(notwithstanding Dalman has observed that the antennae are 
of the “ forma singularis Pauso propria/’ adding, “ De genere 
haud dubiio, attamen characteres insecti genus proprib designan- 
tes, adjungere licet”), I feel convinced that no one, consider- 
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