G35 
a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 
pressione postice bituberculata. Scutellum parvum con- 
color. Elytra thoracis parte antica paulb latiora, magis 
rufescentia, nitida, subconvexa, linearia, apice truncata, 
abdomine pauld longiora. Pedes longi tenues, castanei, 
par dm compressi. 
LiNNiEO discipulus novissimus hanc speciem inscribit. 
This species appears to agree in size, colour, and general 
structure with the next, if indeed it be not specifically identical. 
The chief apparent differences between its characters and the 
description of P. ruber being, 1st, the formation of the head 
and thorax of the two species, and which, as I have suggested 
below, may not perhaps actually exist ; and, 2ndly, the for- 
mation of the terminal joint of the antennae, which must I 
apprehend, on the other hand, be considered as indicative of 
a distinct species. The circumstance of this species being pre- 
served in the Linnean cabinet and actually attached to the 
generic label in Linnaeus’s hand-writing, — the original Linnean 
species at the same time not being preserved in the cabinet, — 
renders it necessary to state that this is not the P. microcephalus. 
From Donovan’s P. pilicornis it varies in colour, although when 
the antennae are seen sideways, there appears to be some spe- 
cific affinity. 
Species 3. Paussus ruber. Thunb. 
P. totus obscurh rufescens, elytris rufescentibus, capite in medio 
angustato et postich utrinque spinoso, thorace antich eroso, 
antennis clavfi latfi complanatfi basi cordata, apice eroso- 
sulcato. 
Paussus ruber. Thunb. Act. Holm. 1781. p. 170. 1 ; ed. Germ. 
21 .p. 171. Herbst. Syst. Ins. Col. 4. p. 101. 2. Afzelius, Linn. 
Trans, vol. iv. 272. 1 . Schonherr. Syn. Ins. 1. part 3. p. 19- 
Rees’ 
