Mr. A. Murray's Monograph of the germs Catops. 305 



Mr. Kirby remarks regarding it, that " This species appears 

 to present the type of a new family of Choleva, not noticed in 

 Mr. Spencers ' Synopsis Sectionum ' in his admirable Monograph 

 of that genus. From his first section {Choleva^ Steph.) it bor- 

 rows the rounded posterior angles of the prothorax ; from his 

 second {Catops, Steph.) its clavated antennae; and from his 

 third [Ptomaphagus, Steph.) its unf arrowed elytra : it seems 

 properly included in the second, with which it most agrees in 

 habit*.'' 



Var. b. Mann. Bull, de la Soc. Mosc. 1843, pp. 173, 254. 



Ferrugineo-testacea ; capite fusco; thoracis disco antennisque 

 infuscatis ; elytris pallide livido-testaceis, postice nonnihil 

 obscurioribus. 



As Count Maunerheim observes, this species is somewhat allied 

 to C. morio, Erichs. {fuscits, Gyll.), but distinguished from it by 

 the thorax being smaller and narrower and the elytra longer. 

 The colour both of the pubescence and body is paler. 



In carcases in the island of Afognak; taken sparingly in 

 the month of August by M. Holmberg, who also took it in Cali- 

 fornia. It was likewise brought by M. Frankenhauser from 

 the interior of the Peninsula of Kenai. 



For the figure of this and the other American species I am 

 indebted to my friend Dr. Leconte of Philadelphia, who has kindly 

 furnished me with drawings of them made expressly for my use 

 in this paper. They are in half outline, and all his figures are 

 four times enlarged. The head is brought up simply to show 

 proportions. 



22. C. brunnipennis, Mann. 



Catops brunnipennis, Mann.Nachtrag zur Kafer-Fauna derNord-Amerikan- 

 ischen Lander der Russischen Reiches, Mosc. 1853, p. 14. 



" Oblongo-ovatus, convexus, crebre subtilissirae reticu-Fig.25. 

 lato-strigulosus, nigro-piceus, griseo-pubescens ; an- 

 tennis thorace vix brevioribus, ferrugineo-testaceis, 

 clava parum incrassata fusca, articulo octavo minutis- 

 simoj thorace longitudine sesqui latiore lateribus 

 modice rotundatis, antice latitudine basis baud angus- 

 tiore, angulis omnibus subrotundatis ; elytris obscure 

 castaneis, apice subacuminatis, stria suturali leviter 

 exarata; pedibus piceo-testaceis. 



" Long. If lin., lat. | lin. 



" Longer than C. cadaverinus, Esch., more narrowed behind. 



* Kirby in loc. cit. 



• iviroy in loc. cit. 

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