Mr. A. Murray's Monograph of the genu^ Catops* 3-41 



loiv pubescence along the base of the elytra. The legs are reddish 

 brown. -^ ' rfV 



Its small size, shorter and more thickened antennae, mora 

 uniform and less bellied outline distinguish this species from 

 picipeSj Fab. Its shorter and more thickened antennae, the 

 yellow pubescence on the thorax and scutellum, want of depres- 

 sions on the disk of the thorax, and the want of the produced 

 posterior angles of the thorax distinguish it from the smaller 

 specimens of nigricans, Spence. Its antennse only slightly 

 thickened, as well as its smaller size, distinguish it from chry- 

 someloideSy Spence. From most of those which have a decided 

 yellow pubescence on the thorax it is distinguished by the want 

 of yellow pubescence along the base of the elytra. This separates 

 it from tristis, Panz., including abdominalis, Rosenh., montivagus, 

 Heer, longulus, Kelln., grandicollis, Erichs., and rotundicollis, 

 Kelln., and from heglectus, Kraatz, and nigrita, Erichs. Its 

 yellow pubescence also is liner, shorter and more delicate than 

 in any of these. The only I'emaining species with which it may 

 be confounded is morio, Erichs., but the more elongate shape 

 and slenderer form of morio and the difference in the posterior 

 angles of the thorax distinguish it. Morio has not got the 

 slight acumination which coracinus has at these angles, and in 

 it they are gently obtuse instead of being at first right-angled. 

 The thorax in morio is also flatter. 



It is found in Scotland and England, and in various parts of 



the Continent. : v ' , 



12. C. mono. Fab. .mi |i .S"<xl 



Catops morio, Fab. Syst. El. ii. 564. 4. ''^^. ^ ^^^ ^^^ 



Choleva dissimulator, Spence, Linn. Trans, xi. 150. 11. «i ,0'>norj<5 ^^KTi'i 

 Catops sericeus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. iv. 313. 1-2. :-■ si jud 



- — morio, Erichs. Kaf. d. M. Br. i. 240. 11 ; Sturm, DeutschL EHuTxiyf-f 



29. 14. t. 276. fig. b, B; Heer, Faun. Helv. 382. 14; Redt. Faun. 



Aust. 144.13; Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii.431. 13; Fairm.& Laboulb. 



Fn. Ent. Fran9. i. 301. 8. '-" ^^"-'V '^-^ ■- ^^'-»^-'-^ 



Qblongo-ovalis, nigerj antenms obsolete clavatis, „. ., * 

 , articulis duobus primis ultimoque et pedibus ^* 



ferrugineis; thorace basi apiceque latitudine 

 subsequali, angulis ppsticis obtusis^ elytris ob- 

 soletissime striatis. .^j^|,j^ Sill oi ia-jbsoid ,i; 



Long. If lin. ' - ' - 



The antennse are as long as the head and 

 thorax, imperceptibly but not greatly thickened 

 towards the point ; the first two joints are ferru- 

 ginous yellow, the rest, with the exception of theJ^-^^'<> bavii/a eti 

 last, blackish, the last joint yellow: rarely the ^^hofe antennse" 

 are ferruginous, which Erichson observes is the case with the 

 examples in Fabricius^s collection. The body is black ; the 



