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" perlitora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et eirciim vitreos considite fontes : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divje, replete eanistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphffl Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conehylia sueeo." 



N. Parthenii Gianneitasii E<;1. 1. 



No. 103. JULY 1856. 



I. — Monograph of the genus Catops. 

 By Andrew Murray^ Edinburgh*. 



Notwithstanding Mr. Spence's able Monograph of the 

 British species of this genus, and the excellent works of Erichson, 

 Sturm, Redtenbacher, Kraatz and others,, its study is still attended 

 with so much difficulty, that I imagine the following attempt to 

 clear up the synonymy, and to make the species more easily 

 recognizable, will be welcome, particularly to British entomo- 

 logists. 



When I commenced my examination of the genus, with a 

 view to publishing the results, I applied to my entomological 

 friends for their assistance both in the way of information and 

 communication of specimens, an application which was cordially 

 responded to. I have thus had the advantage of carefully ex- 

 amining Mr. Waterhouse^s collection, which I believe to be the 

 best representative of the Spencian species extant ; — the deter- 

 mination having been submitted to and approved by Mr. Spence 

 himself, with this qualification, that he (Mr. Spence) had de- 

 scribed some of his species from specimens belonging to others, 

 to whom they had been returned, so that the type specimens 



* Read before the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, Jan. 1856. 

 Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. Fo/. xviii. 1 



