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named by him lucidus, and described from a single specimen 

 found in Dalmatia. 



The fifth section has received the greatest increase. Hitherto 

 it had only contained the two species sericeus and varicornis, but 

 Kraatz has added three new species, strigosus, validus, and cola- 

 noides. I have not seen validtts, but the others appear to me good 

 and distinct species. 



Catopsimorphus orientalis he retains as forming a separate 

 genus. 



The number of exotic species which have been described is 

 not great. 



Three species from Algeria, C. marginicoUis, C. celer and C, 

 7'ufipennis have been described in 1849 by M. Lucas in the 'Ex- 

 ploration de FAlgerie.' 



M. Motschoulsky described a species from Georgia, C. pusillus, 

 io; the Bulletins of the Imperial Society of Moscow for 1840. 

 <\ ! Kolenati described in the ' Meletemata Ent.' a species, C.fun- 

 gicola, from the Russian Province of Elisabethopoleos. 



Menetries described a species (C pallidus) from Bakon in the 

 Caucasus in his ' Catalogue raisonne des Objets de Zoologie re- 

 cueillis dans un voyage au Caucase,' &c. He also described in 

 the Mem. Acad. Imp. Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 6 ser. vi. 1849, 

 two species, C. lateritius and C. fuscipeSy found at Novaia Alex- 

 androvskaia. 



One species, C. australisj from Van Diemen's Land, has been 

 described by Erichson in Wiegmann's 'Archiv fiir Naturge- 

 schichte,' 1842. 



The North American species hitherto described are C. basi- 

 laris, C. opacus and C. simptexy described by Say in the Journal 

 of the Academy of Philadelphia, vols. iii. & v. ; C. Spenciana de- 

 scribed by Kirby in the ' Fauna Bor. Americ' ; C. cadaverinuSy 

 C. Frankenhauseri, C. cryptophagoides, (7. hrunnipennis, and C. 

 luridipennis described by Mannerheim in the ' Bull, of the Imp. 

 Soc. of Mosc' in 1843, 1852 & 1853; C. terminans described 

 by Leconte in Agassiz's ' Lake Superior,' and C. clavicornis, C. ca- 

 lifornicus, C. strigosus, C consobrinus, C. oblitus and C. parasitus, 

 described by the same author in the ' Proceedings of the Aca- 

 demy of Philadelphia,' 1853. 



So much for the past history of the genus. We shall now 

 proceed to the examination of the different species seriatim. 



In doing so I shall first take the European species of each 

 section, and then give the descriptions of the exotic species. I 

 shall not attempt to intercalate the latter among the European 

 species, because there are a number which I have not seen. I 

 shall content myself with classing them according to their 

 geographical distribution. 



