Air. A. Murray's Monograph of the genus Catops. 17 



It has gouge-chisel-shaped lengthened trochanters in the hinder 

 legs. 



" This species has up to this time been collected in the island 

 of Rugen (Erichson !), Konigsberg (Hargen !), Leipzig (v. Kiesen- 

 wetter !), S. Wehlen (Markel !), and Diisseldorf (Hildebrand !). 

 It has also been taken in Austria. For the most part it is 

 found under leaves. C angustatus^ Fab., is not rarely found 

 under stones." 



Var. C cisteloideSy Frohl. 



" Luperus cisteloides, Frohl. Naturf. 28. 25. 3. t. 2. f. 50. 



*' Catops castaneus, Sturm, Ins. xiv. 9. 3. t. 273. a. A ; Heer, Fu. Helv. i. 



378. 2; Redt. Fn. Aust. 143. 4 ; Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xii. 284. 4. 

 " cisteloides, Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 404; Fairni. & Laboulb. 



Faun. Ent. Fran?, i. 299. 



" Oblongus, nigro-piceus ; thorace nigro-piceo, ante medium vix 

 latiore, angulis posticis obtusiusculis ; elytris substriatis, piceis 

 sen castaneis. 



" Long. 2| lin. 



" Mas, trochanteribus posticis acuminatis seu latere inferiore 

 dente magis minusve curvato extante. 



" This is readily distinguished from the C, angustatus, Fab., 

 by the darker colour and the form of the thorax. The antennse 

 are nearly as long as the body*, reddish brown, always darker 

 towards the point. First joint strong, third distinctly longer 

 than the contiguous joints, the fourth somewhat shorter than the 

 third; fifth, sixth and seventh equal in length, eighth nearly half 

 as long as the seventh, ninth somewhat shorter than the seventh, 

 tenth somewhat shorter than the ninth ; the last joint almost 

 twice as long as the preceding, sharply acuminate. The head is 

 black-brown, extremely finely and closely punctate. The thorax 

 is formed like that of C angustatus. Fab., but the sides both 

 before and behind are nearly equally strongly rounded, so that 

 the greatest breadth is not before the middle ; the margin is by 

 far less raised up, less broadly spread out, so that the line on 

 each side of the thorax is both shorter and less deeply marked ; 

 the upper side is as a rule entirely/ pitchy black, extremely deeply and 

 finely [fine-shagreen) punctured ; the deep middle line is frequently 

 wanting. The elyti-a are moderately arched, lightly striated, 

 pitchy black, more rarely pitchy brown. The legs are ferruginous 

 brown. 



" It is spread over the whole of middle and southern Europe, 

 and not rare. In France (according to Latreille) ; in Lombardy 



* This is not correctly expressed. The antennae are longer than the half 

 of the body, but cannot be said to be " nearly as long as the body." They 

 are in no degree longer than the antennae of the other varieties. 



Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. Fo/. xviii. 2 



