144 Mr. Srencr’s Monograph of the Genus Choleva. 
of the same colour as the rest of the body: but this difference 
is of little moment in so variable a genus. | 
The references to Fabricius and to Herbst are adopted on the 
authority of Paykull. The characters given by the former are 
too brief to decide by; and the latter seems merely to have 
copied Fabricius. The figure of Frölich’s Luperus fuscus, as well 
as his description in which he. characterizes that as ** kleiner und 
mehr buchlicht" than the foregoing, (his L. niger,) appear to be 
intended for this species. 
5. CnorEva tristis. | 
C. oblongo-ovalis, nigra, antennis basi, tibiis, tarsisque ferru- 
gineis; capite antice abbreviato. 
Latreille Gen. Crust. et Ins. ii. 28. 3. 
Ptomaphagus fornicatus. Illig. Käf. Preus. i. 89. 3. 
Dermestes fornicatus. Rossi Faun. Etrusc. 352. 81? | 
Catops Morio, Payk. Faun. Suec. i.344. 4. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. 
il. 564. 4? 
Mordella clavicornis. Forst. Cent. 66. Marsh. Ent. Brit. i. 494. 22. 
Cistela ovata. Oliv. Ent. iii. 54. 10. 12. Tab. i. 11. a. b? 
Helops tristis. Panz. Faun. Germ. 8. 1. Ent. i. 43. 9. 
Chrysomela gibbosa. Thunberg. Nov. Act. Ups. iv. 14. 94. 
Tritoma Morio. Fab. Ent. Syst. em. i. 507. 7 ? 
Catops fornicatus. Gyll. Ins. Suec. i. 276. 1. 
Long. Corp. 13—2 lin. Lat. 14 lin. 
Habitat Mus. D. Marsham, Wilkin, Nostr. 
DESCR. CORPUS oblongo-ovale, nigrum, pube fulvescente quàm in precedente rariori 
vestitum ; sub lente obsoleté rugulosum. 
Carur sub lente levitér et crebré punctatum, ante antennas brevius quàm in duabus 
precedentibus. Palpi ferruginei. Antenne thoracis longitudine, articulis 4, 5, 
vel 6 primis, ferrugineis, reliquis nigro-fuscis ; articulo 8vo contiguis feré dimidió 
breviore et angustiore. 3 
'TRUNCUS. 
