634 Mr. J. O. Westwood on the Paussida , 
the Society to institute such an inquiry into the state of the Lin- 
nean cabinet of insects as will tend in the result to diminish the 
confusion which has so inadvertently been produced, — whereby 
the value of the cabinet has been diminished, and the increase 
of knowledge retarded, — by endeavouring, as far as may be 
possible, to reinstate the collection in its original form. 
Species 2. Paussus Linn^ei mihi. 
Tab. XXXIII. Fig. 22—24. 
P. subcylindricus, rufo-piceus, elytris rufescentibus, antennarum 
clav& supr&labi subquadratfi, apice valde depresso, recurvo, 
subhirsuto. 
Habitat ? 
Long. corp. (exclus. antennis) lin. 2. 
In Mus. Soc. Linn. Lond. (olim Smith?). 
Nova species. Parvus, subcylindricus, tenuissimk punctatissi- 
mus. Caput supra subconvexum, piceum, obscurum, por- 
rectum, subtriangulare, postice in collum breve productum ; 
margine antico emarginato ; vertice impressione parva, 
subrotundabi, in qu& tuberculum minutum. Oculi parvi 
laterales. Palpi ut supra descripti. Antenna magnae, ob- 
scurae, castaneae vel rufo-piceae, apice subpiloso, articulo 
lmo cylindrico, brevi, apice obliquo, articulo ultimo max- 
imo, supra subquadrato, inaequaliter elevato, basi paulb 
latiori, et oblique truncato ; latere interno tuberculis tribus 
minutis, apice citb valde depresso, acuto et supra reflexo. 
Thorax longior, quasi bipartitus, et in medio profundi 
excavato, rufo-piceus, portio antica obscura capite latior 
strangulo distincta, valde et transverse elevata, illius mar- 
gine supero acuto et in medio subemarginata, ejusdem 
angulis lateralibus acutis ; portio postica nitida paulb an- 
gustior, lateribus rotundatis, vertice valdk depresso, de- 
pressione 
