a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 
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Sectio I. Thorax quasi bipartitus. 
Species 1. Paussus m icrocf.piialus. Linn. 
Tab. XXXIII. Fig. 21. 
P. obscurh niger, vel nigricanti-brunneus, elytris magis piceis, 
vel rufo-piceis, capite mutico, antennarum clavA per- 
magnA, oblongo-sphaeroidaeA, inaequaliter elevatA, ad basin 
subelongath pedunculatA, latere externo quadri-tuberculato, 
infra in uncum obtusum unidentatum producto, thorace in 
medio profundb excavato, parte anticA strangulo distincto, 
valdb et transversb elevatA, illius margine supero acuto, 
tibiis linearibus, posticis paulb latioribus, apice subangus- 
tioribus. 
Paussus microcephalus. Linn. (Dahl. Diss. Acad. Bigce Ins.) 
p. 6. tab. ann.f.6 — 10. Thunberg. Act. Suec. 1781. 170. 1. 
Fuess. Arch. Lis. Plag. iii. p. 1. sq. ; ed. Gall. p. 42. t. 13. 
Afzelius, Act. Soc. Linn. vol. iv. p. 263. t. 22. f. 1 — 5. 
Herbst. Coll. iv. p. 100. t. 39. /. 6. a, b. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 
vol. i. p. 4. p. 1737 — 1. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. ii. p. 75. 1. 
Weidem. Arch. 1.2 . p. 297- 1. Latr. Hist. Nat. $c. t. 11. 
p. 208. Latr. Gen. Crust, fyc. t. 3. p. 2. Nouv. Diet. 
d’Hist. Nat. vol. xxv. p. 58. Schonhcrr, Syn. Ins. vol. i. 
p. 3. p. 18. Shaw, Gen. Zool. vi. part 1. p. 42. pi. 12. 
Encyclopaedia Londinensis, vol. xix. Genus § tab . Pausus, 
Jig. 1, 2,3. Rees’ Encycl. vol. xxvi. Pausus, no. 1."] 
Cerocoma microcephala. Fabr. Ent. Syst. t. i. p. 2. p. 82. 
Leslie, Naturg. i. t. 12. f. 19- 
“ Habitat in Insula Bananas ejusdemque vicinitate.” Afz. 
Magn. nat. Dermestes lardarii Linn. — Long. corp. lin. 3^-. 
In Mus. Soc. Linn. Lond. (olim Banks). Dom. MacLeay 
(olim Drury) ; etiam olim in Musaeo Linna?i (Smith) ; 
etiam in Mus. Latreille (nunc Dejean). 
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