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latter having the tips obliquely truncate, and the angles acute. 
The tarsi have the basal joint very minute, as well as the 
calcaria, which are almost indistinct. The abdomen (fig, 2 c), in 
the specimens in the collections of the Kev. F. W, Hope and 
M. Westerraann, is simply 4-jointed, without any exserted appen¬ 
dages. [Fig. 26 represents the front part of the body, seen 
sideways.] 
TJie figure published by me in the Transactions of the Entomo¬ 
logical Society, above referred to, was engraved from a slight 
sketch made during my visit to Berlin. The present drawing is 
from a specimen sent to me from Copenhagen by M. Westermann 
for examination. 
Species 5.—Paussus rufitarsis, Sam . J \ IS . 
(Plate 89, fig. 4.) 
Fulvo-flavescens; aritcnnarum articulo basali, prothoracis angulis posticis, elytrorum disco 
pedibusque piceis; tarsis riifis, antennariim clava ovata convcxa basi esterne in spinam 
obtusam producto. Long. corp. lin. 3. 
Habitat-? In Mils. Britann. 
Paussus rujitarsis, M'cstw., in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xvi., p. 638, pi. 33, fig. 25 — 27. 
The form of this species is comparatively short and broad ; it is 
somewhat cylindric, and very delicately punctured, and slightly 
pubescent. The head is subtriangular, porrected, and nearly as 
large as the prothorax, wdth the neck narrow'ed, and the anterior 
part truncate and slightly emarginate; it is of a pale flavescent 
colour; and in the middle, betw^een the eyes, is a rounded excava¬ 
tion, having a minute round impression on either side ; betw^een 
the eyes and the base of the antennoe is also a rounded impression 
on each side of the head. The maxillary palpi have the second 
joint very broadly ovate and compressed. The basal joint of the 
antennee is pitchy, and the second pale livid-flavescent, the latter 
elongate-globose, rather pointed at the apex, slightly carinated 
along the anterior margin, with the upper angle of the base 
produced into an obtuse pitchy spine; the middle of the upper or 
hinder margin, with a rather depressed oblong impression, in wiiich 
are four slightly elevated transverse ribs. The prothorax is 
subquadrate, scarcely broader and larger than the head, and 
bipartite; the anterior portion fulvous-yellow, with the sides of 
the hinder portion pitchy; the anterior part is elevated and short; 
along the middle runs an angulated ridge, which is interrupted in 
the middle, the lateral angles subacute ; the hinder part is larger, 
