16 Mr. A. Murray ^s Monograph of the genus Catops. 



" Note III. — From the near affinity of this species with the fol- 

 lowing species more minutely described by Sturm [castanens, St.), 

 is it surprising that I yet refer to this species the greatest 

 part of those placed by Erichson under the C angustaim^ 

 of the authors referred to by him, without subjecting to a 

 more particular examination the descriptions given by them, and 

 knowing whether or not they had the work of Sturm on Catops 

 before them while engaged on their descriptions ? Such an ex- 

 amination has been made as far as possible, and leads to the 

 result that those authors who entered upon a more detailed 

 description, such as Gyllenhal, Latreille, Spence, had mostly 

 both species before them, as Gyllenhal without doubt appears to 

 have had/' 



Var. C. intermedins, Kraatz. 

 C. intermedins, Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 401. 



'^ Oblongus, fuscus ; thorace postice angustiore, ante medium 

 latiore, angulis posticis obtusiusculis ; elytris substriatis con- 

 coloribus ; antennis pedibusque ferrugineis. 



" Long. 2^ lin. 



" Mas, trochanteribus posticis scalpiformibus. 



" In form this species occupies the middle place between 

 C. spadiceus, Dahl., and angustatus, Fab., — shorter and broader 

 than the latter, less robust than the former ; well distinguished 

 however by its breadth. It is distinguished at the first glance 

 from C. spadiceus, Dahl., by the thorax not being .deeply and 

 strongly punctured, as well as by its lighter colour. From C. an- 

 gustatus it differs in the following points : — 



" a. The whole beetle is shorter, more compressed, less equally 

 broad than the C. angustatus, Fab. ; the elytra in the middle 

 somewhat bellied out. 



" b. The antennae are likewise uniform in colour, clear ferru- 

 ginous red, but somewhat shorter and stronger, the eighth joint 

 relatively shorter than in C. angustatus, 



" c. The margin of the thorax is somewhat broader, and 

 more bent upwards than in the C. angustatus. Fab. ; it is also 

 to be distinguished by the deepened lines on each side of the 

 thorax. The upper side is moderately finely and densely [coarsely- 

 shagreen) punctured, ferruginous brown, occasionally somewhat 

 darker in the middle. 



" d. The elytra are less equally broad than in the C. angus- 

 tatuSy Fab., in the middle somewhat bellied out, entirely of one 

 colour, ferruginous brown. 



" I have at least half-a-dozen females, but only one male 

 before me, which with greater probability belongs to this species. 



