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



grey pubescence. The sciitellam is obtusely triangular, densely 

 punctate. The elytra are of a short and broad oval form, broadly 

 truncate at the apex, finely shagreen -punctured, thinly clothed 

 with a yellowish-grey pubescence, deeply impressed with a 

 sutural stria, and without any traces of other striae. The abdo- 

 men is pitchy-black ; the legs are ferruginous-yellow. 



The salient points in which it differs from the preceding have 

 been already noticed. It is .larger, more densely pubescent, 

 more thickly punctate and less shining than the following spe- 

 cies (C anisotomoides). 



The above description is reproduced from Sturm, as I have 

 not seen the species. It has been taken in Hungary and 

 Austria. 



37. C, anisotomoides, Spence. 



Choleva anisotomoides, Spence, Linn. Trans, xi. 156. 16. 



Catops anisotomoides, Sturm, Deutschl. Fn. xiv. 42. 21. t. 278. f. c. C ; 



Heer, Fn. Helv. i. 384. 20; Redt. Fn. Aust. 145. 16; Kraatz, Stett. 



Ent. Zeit. xiii. 439. 29; Fairm. & Laboulb. Fn. Ent. Fr. i. 304. 20. 



Ovatus, piceus, nitidulus; antennis longioribus,ob- Fi^- ^^• 

 solete clavatis; thorace transverso, basi latiore, 

 margine postico recto, angulis posticis obtusis ; 

 elytris piceis sen rufo-piceis. 



Long. I lin. 



Oval, very convex. Pale ferruginous-brown, 

 somewhat shining, variable in depth of colour, 

 deeper on the disk of the thorax and of the elytra, 

 with a fine brown pubescence. Antennae tolerably long, scarcely 

 thickened at the extremity. Thorax transverse, as broad at the 

 base as the base of the elytra, narrowed a little in front, very 

 densely but finely punctate ; posterior margin straight, posterior 

 angles obtuse. Elytra elongate-oval, scarcely widening behind 

 the base, then gradually becoming narrower ; densely punctate, 

 but not so finely as the thorax; suture raised; sutural stria 

 deep, almost reaching the scutellum; no traces of other striae 

 to be seen. Legs and antennae of the same colour as the body. 



The smallness of its size, and its short and more convex form, 

 distinguish it from C. velox. It is nearer in point of size to 

 C, prcecoXf but the more elongate form of the latter and its dif- 

 ferently shaped thorax distinguish it ; and a tendency which it 

 has to curl itself up like an Agathidium will suggest what it is. 



Distributed over all Europe, and generally common. In 

 Scotland and England it is scarcer; but in France and Germany 

 it is very common. Fairmaire says it is found almost all the 

 year round in vegetable detritus, principally on the banks of 

 lakes and marshes. 



[To be continued.] 



