The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ibed by Dr. Erichson in Weigmanns Archiv.,and figured in Dr. Ratzeburgs Forst Insecten. Several new genera are established in these works.] The others have the palpi large, very visible, and of unequal length. The body is depressed andnarrowed in front; the antennae either 2-jointed, the second joint being very large and irregular-shaped,or 10-jointed, and entirely perfoliated ; the tarsi are entire. These are exotic insects [of the mostsingular appearance an
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ibed by Dr. Erichson in Weigmanns Archiv.,and figured in Dr. Ratzeburgs Forst Insecten. Several new genera are established in these works.] The others have the palpi large, very visible, and of unequal length. The body is depressed andnarrowed in front; the antennae either 2-jointed, the second joint being very large and irregular-shaped,or 10-jointed, and entirely perfoliated ; the tarsi are entire. These are exotic insects [of the mostsingular appearance and greatest rarity], which compose the genus Paussus, Linn.,—[Of which I have published a monograph in the Trans. Linn., and Enlomol. Society, proposing severalnew genera]. LatreiUe obsen-es, that these appear to be allied to Cryptophagus, I are extremely close in their relations to the CttrcalionldiB. othersand Oliver analogous Pentameroos Coleoptera [The fact is, that I possess no other relation than that of beinfr minute in size, andwhilst Borne of the species here placed at the head of the Xylophagi, I xylopbagons in habits.]. COLEOPTERA. 543 Paussut proper, has only two joints to the antrnnsp, the second very larj^e and , Dalm., composted of a single species apparently with uct-llif and with the antenna: scarcely longer thanthe head, and Sired., has the antcnnie 10-jointed and perfolinted. 2. Those wliich have only 10-jointed antennrc, and the maxillarj palpi arc not narrowed to the tips,hut are of equal thickness throughout, or thicker at the tips ; the joints of the tarsi are always are divi&ihlc into two principal genera ; those with the three terminal joints forming a perfoliatedmass compose that of— DosTRiCHUS, GeofTr. Bostrichut proper, has the body cylindrical, the thorax forming a kind of hood over the heat). The species arefoiMui in old wood and timber. [iJ. capiicinus, a rare Hritiah species.] Psoa, Fabr.,
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