iM Wi?}t\iMi^SftMono(/rfrph of the genus Cato^M 



di'Mnct, and that C. fuliginosus may have been clescrifiea^S^oiS 

 other specimens, although they arc not now in the collection in 

 the Berlin Museum. 



Still, in the face of M. Kraatz^s deliberate opinion, fortified as 

 it is by the specimens in the collection of the Berlin Royal 

 Museum, and also doubtless by the traditions which must re- 

 main of Erichson's own views in a place which has only so 

 recently been deprived of him, I have not ventured to carry my 

 difference of opinion further than to submit the above suggestions 

 for the consideration of the reader. , \' ''' 



I have only to add with reference to this species (ft Wz^^?-? 

 canSf Sp.), that the readiest distinction between it and such 

 others (except C. picipes) as are likely to be mistaken for it, is 

 furnished by the longish almost subfiliform ferruginous antennae. 

 In my observations on C picipes I have already noticed the 

 primd-facie differences existing between it and this species. 



Widely distributed, being found in Scotland and Englandlf 

 France, Germany, and most of Europe, but nowhere common. ' 1 



foii?)i8orr ^dt m t^^y^^^^lBX coracimiSy Kellner. raiol wiohadk bas 



Catops coracinus, Kelln. Stett. Ent. Zeit. vii. 1/7. 3 jTO^t,^. i^l.^Bf^ 

 Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 431. 12. ma&aimu^s, id^ire 



Ovatus, niger ; antennis obsolete clavatis, TujO;^ ^^ ^ \ jm 

 piceis ; thorace transverso, basi latiore, angutis pos- Pig. I0» 

 ticis distinct e rectis; elytris obsoletissime striatis, 

 Loug.^lin. (M,om5«;> Sr 



This has a considerable resemblance to C. nigri- 

 cans, Spence, in the form of the elytra and antennae, / 

 but is smaller, and more continuous in its outline : 

 the hinder angles of the thorax are very slightly acuminate, so 

 slightly as to be scarcely observable except by minute exami- 

 nation : the elytra are indistinctly striated. The antennae are as 

 long as the head and thorax, shghtly thickened towards the 

 point, in some individuals a little thicker than in others, reddish 

 brown ; the club usually blackish, but the depth of colour varies. 

 The head and thorax are black, densely and finely punctate, 

 with a fine short yellowish pubescence. The thorax is almost as 

 broad as the elytra, broadest in the middle, straight at the base, 

 the anterior angles rounded, and the posterior angles right-angled 

 at the very angle ; that is, when looked at superhcially the angle 

 would appear obtuse, but when examined more carefully there 

 ap})ears a very short space of right angle before the thorax takes 

 its curved outline : the scutellum is proportionally large, and 

 clothed with the same coloured pubescence as the thorax. The 

 elytra are oval, densely and finely punctate, black, clothed with 

 a^ ashen grey pubescence or bloom, indistinctly striated: no yel- 



