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



" Nearly in the middle between C. fumatus and C. scitulus. 

 Easily distinguished from both by the wholly different thorax 

 and form of the antennae. Pitchy-brown ; elytra and legs 

 brownish-yellow. The antennae are somewhat longer than the 

 head and thorax, reddish-brown throughout ; the club scarcely 

 perceptibly thickened ; the five last joints are only a little stouter 

 than those preceding, and are of equal breadth ; the first joint is 

 somewhat longer and a little stouter than the second ; the third 

 somewhat shorter than the second, distinctly larger than the 

 fourth, almost equal to the sixth ; fifth scarcely larger than those 

 on each side of it ; seventh half as long again and somewhat 

 stouter than the sixth, equal to the ninth ; eighth scarcely 

 slenderer, and half as long as those on each side of it ; tenth a 

 little shorter than ninth ; eleventh as long as ninth and tenth 

 together, from the middle outwards sharply acuminate. The 

 head is pitchy-black, very finely moderately densely punctate; 

 the mouth brownish-yellow. The thorax of the breadth of the 

 elytra, broadest at the base, more than twice as broad as long, 

 tolerably strongly and symmetrically narrowed from the base 

 towards the front. The anterior angles are rounded, somewhat 

 depressed ; the obtusely rounded hinder angles project a little 

 beyond the anterior margin of the elytra ; the posterior margin 

 is very feebly sinuated on both sides near the middle ; the upper 

 side is moderately, densely, finely shagreen-punctate, pitchy- 

 black ; the sides and posterior margin brownish, tolerably closely 

 covered with a long yellowish-grey pubescence. The elytra are 

 uniform, only slightly narrowed behind, densely and finely punc- 

 tate, with a slight bloom or hoar-frost on them, sparingly and 

 finely pubescent, brownish -yellow. The under side of the body 

 is pitchy-black. The legs are reddish-yellow*.^^ 



M. Kraatz has established this species upon one example from 

 Sicily, communicated by Zeller to the Royal Museum of Berlin. 



29. C. scitulus i Erichs. 



Choleva fumata, Spence, Linn. Trans, xl. 155. 4. 



Catops scitulus, Erichs. Kaf. d. M. Brand, i. 241. 13; Sturm, Deutschl. 



Faun. xiv. 33. 16; Redt. Faun. Aust. 712; Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 



xiii. 437. 24 ; Fairm. & Laboulb. Fn. Ent. Fr. i. 304. 17- 



Ovatus, fuscus; antennis leviter clavatis, ferru- Fig. 31. 

 gineis ; thorace postice latiore, angulis posticis 

 productis, rectis ; elytris pedibusque obscure 

 fusco-testaceis. 



Long, li lin. 



Oval, brown. Antennae as long as head and 

 thorax, ferruginous, a little deeper before the 



* Kraatz in he. cit. 



