308 Mr. A. Murray^s Monograph of the genus Catops. 



the species with slender antennae to those with the heaviest and 

 thickest-clubbed antennse. The affinity to these leads us now to 

 reverse this order, and to commence this subdivision with those 

 having similar thick antennse. 



A. Antenna heavily clubbed and middle tarsi widened in the 

 males. 



26. C.fumatus, Erichs. 



Choleva Watsoni, Spence, Linn. Trans, xi. 156. 



Catops agilis, Fab. Syst. Eleuth. ii. 565. 6; Gyll. Ins. Suec. i. 277- 2; 



Panz. Faun. Germ. 95. 10 ; Duft. Fn. Aust. iii. 75. 4. 

 Catops fumatus, Erichs. Kaf. d. M. Br. i. 240. 12; Sturm, Deut. Fn. xiv. 



31. 15. t. 176. f. c. C; Heer, Fn. Helv. i. 382. 15; Redt. Fn. Aust. 



144. 7; Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 436. 22; Fairm. & Laboulb. Fn. 



Ent. Fr. i. 303. 14. 



Oblongo-o oralis, fusco-piceus ; antennis brevibus, da- Fig- 29. 

 vatis, basi apiceque ferrugineis ; thorace brevi, 

 basi latiore, angulis posticis rectis ; elytris pedi- 

 busque testaceis. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



One of the smaller species. Oblong oval. Beep 

 brown. Antennse short and thick, a little longer 

 than the thorax, brown ; last joint broader than 

 long, both it and the three first joints ferruginous. 

 Head black, densely punctate. Thorax with reddish transparent 

 margins, slightly arched; densely and finely punctate, almost 

 twice as broad as long, as broad at the base as the elytra, or 

 very nearly so, narrowed in front ; posterior angles right-angled, 

 pointed; posterior margin almost straight. Elytra oval, acu- 

 minate, densely punctate, without traces of strise, except the 

 sutural ; reddish-brown, often brownish at the extremity. Under 

 side blackish-brown. Legs ferruginous. 



Distinguished from the other European species of this sub- 

 division, except alpinus and scitulus, by its short, thick, heavily- 

 clubbed antennse. 



The alpinus is clearer in colour, is longer, and has the thorax 

 usually narrower than the elytra. Scitulus differs from fumatus 

 in having the antennse longer, the elytra broader, the posterior 

 angles of the thorax projecting, and the colour somewhat dif- 

 ferent, the elytra being brown, without the reddish tint which 

 is characteristic oi fumatus y particularly at the base of the elytra, 

 and having a marked sericeous lustre. 



One of the commonest species. It is found in Scotland and 

 England, and all over Europe, under detritus, in decaying fungi 

 and under leaves. 



