184! M^i'A. Murray's Monograph of the genus Catops. 



*' ^I'ilEfv'd'ibbt i^ii^li tbi^" sficcies in nature, and have merely copied 

 M. Kraatz's description. It appears to be readily recognized 

 among its neighbours by its transversely strigose elytra. It is 

 found in Sicily, and appears to be rare, M. Kraatz having only 

 seen three speciniens^^^'^'^^l ^^^ ^^ ^\8oaLb-iKo ^' .^ovi- jinjiiqa:!^: 

 iii,.. . \, .:=,,, rtiiij -labfrrrRfsff or! ?:3n^(]9, orfj gb-jBgai es ifit oh 

 ajj'i) od;t «|j-iB^rti 8B ylfi'j C, fuscus, Panz. ^V'ss^'i lo ^ioi'/Ev 



"TtdpT^^is^, te.'fei'term. 18. 1. . ^ ^ ^ .^^^ ^^ . 'f ^^^^ V 



Luperusfuscus, Frohl. Naturf. 28. 24. 2. t. l/f/ 1« ffoijooqgnt slqaii 

 Catops seric€US,Fiiyk.Yn. Sued. 342.1. ^.'.)hf)(\^ 98oHT .ion 'iv* 

 Catops rufescens. Fab. Syst. El. ii. 563. 1. gnorns brrrfO^ OTB 3?ftfT'.>1 

 Choleva sericea, Spence, Liim. Trans, xi. 145. 6. ^,. , r ,^ fj rfn i- mI* 

 C«/o/j5/e5J^i/iaw5r, Gyll. Ins. Suec. iv. 314. 1-2. ,' ', | -^ 



Galops fuscus, Erichs. Kaf. d. M. Br. i. 235. 3; SttirAi; Dfeutscfll: Fii; iilv. 



-lu^ 13. 5. t. 2/4. f.a.A; Heer, Fn. Ilelv. i. 37J>. 4 ; Redt. Fn. Austr. 164. 



[hn. 11 ; Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 407. 8; Fairm. & Laboulb. Fn. Eut. 

 Fr.i.101.7. ,„,/^, 



Breviter ovatus, fuscus ; antennis subfiliformibus ; thorace trans- 

 . rjiyerso, postice latiore, angulis posticis rectis; elytris rufo-bruij- 



neis, substriatis. .01 .r-^J^ .iii^ .iiyX .j/iil .:tj9:i8 



Long. 2 lin. MirrstJifi ( 8iJooiq prirno^^rif/Mvpfno vurtevO 



Dark brown, short oyilr'';^A^^piiil^ ferru^^^^ brd^^^very 

 feebly thickened towards the extremity, not quite so long as the 

 head and thorax; first joint longer than the succeeding joints ; 

 second very little shorter than third; third and fourth very 

 nearly equal ; fifth and sixth equal, both a little shorter than 

 fourth ; seventh not much if at all longer than sixth, but a good 

 deal broader; eighth shorter than those on each side of it, but not 

 gi*eatly narrower ; ninth and tenth about same size, and eleventh 

 acuminate and nearly twice as long as the tenth. Head and 

 thorax black, very densely punctate, with a yellowish grizzly 

 adpressed pubescence ; mouth reddish ; edges of thorax ferrugi- 

 nous brown. Thorax rounded on the sides, bt'oadest behind tf^e 

 middle, at the base almost twice as broad as long, y\s. 6. 1) 

 very slightly rounded in at the poster-ior angles, which 

 are right-angled and have a slight tendency to pro- 

 ject behind. Elytra reddish brown, covered with a 

 bluish-grey bloom ; a little widened in the middle, 

 apew almost acuminate; densely punctate, and with Wit/fe) t 

 striae visible towards the apex, scaircely. perceptible in front. 

 Legs reddish brown. vm' i.M>!ir'^ ••■ 



M This species is easily distinguished from the rest of the sec- 

 tion by the breadth of its thorax behind, which gives its outline 

 ' ait first sight, and before the junction of the thorax and elytra is 

 examined, very much the appearance of being a oosutinuousoval 

 slightly interrupted at the base of the elytra. ' >iiiii^ii) /Ijii o 



It is widely distributed, being found both in England and Scot- 



