136 Mr. A. Murray's Monograph of the genus Catops. 



This species at first sight looks very like an overgrown fuscusy 

 Panz., hut closer examination shows that it is a good species,4l« 

 the proportions of the joints of the antennae as well as other par-? 

 ticulars being wholly different. In a specimen which 1 owe to 

 the kindness of M. Kraatz, I observe that the development of 

 the posterior angles of the thorax is considerably exaggerated in 

 the outline I have given, which is copied from Aube's own figure. 

 Aube also states it is larger than picipes, Fab., which had 

 hitherto been considered the largest known Catops ; but my spe- 

 cimen is scarcely so large as the smaller individuals of picipes, 

 from which I should infer that it ought perhaps rather to be 

 stated as being about the same size as picipes. Its entirely fer- 

 ruginous colour and the projecting posterior angles of the thorax 

 furnish a tolerably good piimd-facie guide to the species. aiHool 

 i>At,isioundiiJ> Sicily, gjid,is.asv yet scarce in. collectionsiic t^oo 

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odnr .ion 8«rf ^^%^'^^'^^l'^t!i.m<nj)6s''YM^ -^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^* 

 Y^H^bfj^t tfi>»rl>^ fi 'i^ed ?wx- * ' j'i adi ^o aafgae 'joiiaJaoq 

 BydropUlus picipes. Fab. Syst. El. i. 251> ^P-doidw ^bnidad .loaro'jq ot 

 Ptomaphac,us picipes IHig. Kaf. Pr. 893 ,3,,^, j^^^^^^j ^^ ^.y ^l^jrp 

 Catops striatus, Duit. In. Aust. 111. 74. 3. , . ? j- 

 *— Uapsoides, Germ. Ins. Sp. Nov. 84. 142?'^* ^H ■'*^" ^^^^^ ^ "^'"''* 

 pieipes, Erichs. Kaf. d. M. Br. i. 236. 5 j StW,'Detft^61ir. FViiii.^iJIt 



17. 7. t. 274. f. c. C; Heer, Fn. Helv. i. 378. 6; Redt. Fn. Aust. 144. 



10; Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 428. 9 ; Fairm. & Laboulb. Fn. Ent. 



Franc, i. 300. 4. ., • - ^ ... 



Ovatus, convexus, niger ; antennis subfiliformibus ,. ^.y-rt**^ 4^\oAO 

 pedibusque piceis, apice testaceis; thorace ^jvjroh^t^%j,\oYnO 

 transverso, basi sublatiore, angulis posticis ^ '^' 

 obtusis; elytris apice profunde stTtatis., '^L 



Long.2ilm. , , ^^'f'^-'-'*. 



This is the largest species of the genus, with 

 the exception of the last. Oval, convex y black. 

 Antennae scarcely thickened at the end, reddish 

 brown at the base, blackish at the extremity, 

 excepting the last joint, which is light yellow. 

 Head very densely and finely punctate, mouth reddish. The 

 thorax is likewise very densely and finely punctate, with a fine 

 silky pubescence, black, strongly rounded on the sides, narrowed 

 both in front and behind, but most in front, posterior angles obtuse, 

 posterior margin very slightly sinuated on each side, the greatest 

 breadth behind the middle. Elytra oval, very convex, black, with 

 a shght grey hoar-frost bloom upon them, very densely punc- 

 tate, with stria) faint in front, deeper behind. Under side black, 

 -abdomen and jlj^^s^j^-piw^ ^^^.,|gpuginous brown, tarsi pale 



ei^iTuginous,:^,^:^' -^ ^,^;^'' ;^. ;^^^ 



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