398 Mr. A. Murray *s Monograph of the genus Catops. 



Not having seen this species^ I can only reproduce M. Kraatz^s 

 description, which is as follows : — 



" A new species differing so much from all the species of 

 Catops known to me, by its shining glittering upper side and 

 clear yellow elytra, that I cannot class it under any one of 

 Erichsou's groups : not only so, but I was not wholly averse to 

 have based a new genus upon it, if in spite of the many differ- 

 ences there was not a form of transition to that of the perfect 

 Catops in a species which I possess (the only one hitherto 

 accessible), and a species from Mesopotamia in the Royal Mu- 

 seum (of Berlin) (though in other respects differing little from 

 the C. lucidus of this country). The antennae are nearly of 

 the length of the elytra, entirely of a lively reddish-brown, 

 stout ; first joint distinctly longer than the second, and as well 

 as it a little more slender than the remaining joints ; third a 

 little stouter than the fourth, nearly as long as the first ; fourth, 

 fifth and sixth are reverse cone-shaped, the following joint always 

 somewhat shorter than the preceding ; the seventh is equal to 

 the ninth and to the tenth in length, which is the same as the 

 length of the fourth joint, but somewhat stouter; the eighth is 

 somewhat shorter but scarcely more slender than the joints 

 which encompass it ; the eleventh is almost of the length of 

 both the preceding, from its base to its last third growing gra- 

 dually broader, from thence cone-shaped acuminate. The head 

 is black, shining, not punctate ; the mouth yellowish-red. The 

 thorax at the base is more than double as broad as long, gra- 

 dually narrowed from the base towards the front, so that the 

 greatest breadth is before the middle*, gently rounded on the 

 sides ; the anterior angles are obtuse, somewhat sloping down- 

 wards, the posterior angles likewise obtuse and rounded off; the 

 posterior margin is distinctly sinuate and depressed over the 

 moderately densely finely punctate scutellum, and on each side 

 towards the posterior angles, so that the posterior angles project 

 slightly and are a little reflexed ; the upper side is dark pitchy- 

 brown, clearer on the sides and posterior angles, flatly arched, 

 bright shining. The elytra are symmetrical oblong, only feebly 

 narrowed behind, shining pale yellow, brownish towards the 

 scutellum, dark pitchy-brown at the apex, disappearing at some 

 distance, with punctures irregularly arranged in rows and clothed 

 with solitary yellowish hairs ; the under side is shining black, 

 not punctured, the last abdominal segment yellow. The legs are 

 lively reddish-brown. 



* Sic in orig., viz. " von der Basis an nach vorn allmalig verengt, wodurch 

 die grosste Breite vor der Mitte." It should probably have been, *' greatest 

 breadth behind the middle." 



