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a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 
rales $-c. p. 225, under the name of Paussili, and which he 
placed between the Bostrichida and the Cisidce. This family- 
name was altered in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia by Dr. Leach 
to Paussidcs. In the Regne Animal, the two genera considered 
a subgenera together form the second genus of the first section of 
the Xylopliages between the Scolytida and the Bostrichida. And 
in the Analecta Entomologica, Dalman proposed to establish 
the species, previously named by him Paussus Bucephalus, into 
a distinct genus named Hylotorus. 
To these three genera I have now the pleasure of adding 
several others ; and the following may be regarded as the prin- 
cipal typical characters of the family. 
Ordo. COLEOPTERA. 
Sectio. Pentamera? Latr. 
(Ciiilopodomorpha ? MacLcay .) 
Stirps. Necropiiaga? MacLeay. 
Familia. Paussidje mihi. Paussili. Latr., $c. Paussides. 
Leach, Edin. Encycl. 
Genus typicum. Paussus. Linn. 
Familia Character typicus. 
Corpus oblongo-quadratum, subdepressum, antice subacumi- 
natum. 
Caput parvum, subtriangulari-globosum, porrectum, collo in- 
structum. 
Antenn;e permagnse, crassae, articulis 2 — 10 plhs minusve 
depress® (pro magnitudine insectorum). 
Palpi magni, coriacei, exserti, inaequales. 
Labium magnum, coriaceum, planum. 
Tiiorax plus minhsve bipartitus. 
Elytra postice quadratu. 
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