Mr. A. Murray's Monograph of the genus Catops. 399 



" One example from Kuhr, probably found in Dalmatia*/' 

 I am unable to give any description of the species from Meso- 

 potamia above referred to by M. Kraatz. 



50. C. cryptophagoidesj Mannerheim. 

 Catops cryptophagoides, Mann. Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. 18i52, pt. 2. p. 333. 



" Oblongo-ovatus, convexus, rufo-ferrugineus, nitidus, glaber- 

 rimus; antennis extrorsum valde incrassatis pilosis, articulo 

 octavo prsecedente multo minore ; thorace laivi, antrorsum ro- 

 tundato, angulis posticis supra elytra rotundato-productis ; 

 elytris disperse punctatis, subrugulosis. 



" Long, f lin., lat. ^ lin.f 



I have not seen this species. M. Pippingskold collected it 

 in the island of Sitka under a stone. 



Mannerheim states that in form it comes very near the genus 

 Colon, but he rather referred it to Catops from the structure of 

 the antennae, although at the same time differing from both by 

 the polished smoothness of its body. From this indication it 

 should probably rank beside lucidus, Kraatz, and I have accord- 

 ingly placed it in this subdivision. 



2nd Subdivision. Body not polished and shining ; elytra trans- 

 versely strigose. 



51. C. strigosus, Kraatz. 

 Catops strigosus, Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. p. 441. 31. Fig. 46. 



Ovatus, rufo-ferrugineus ; antennis longioribus, 

 obsolete clavatis, ferrugineis; thorace trans- 

 verso, angulis posticis fere acuminatis ; elytris 

 substriatis, evidenter transversim strigosis, apice 

 acuminatis. 



Long, li lin. 



The antennse are slender, entirely reddish-brown ; first, second 

 and third equal in length ; fifth scarcely longer than those on 

 each side of it, half as large as the first joint ; seventh somewhat 

 longer and stouter than the foregoing, equal to the ninth and 

 tenth ; eighth scarcely half as long and a little thinner than the 

 seventh ; eleventh somewhat longer than the tenth, moderately 

 sharply acuminate. The head is red-brown, densely and finely 

 punctate. The thorax is nearly 2~ times as long as broad ; at 

 the base it is of the same breadth as the elytra ; it is gradually 

 narrowed towards the front, gently rounded on the sides ; the 



* Kraatz in loc. cit. t Mannerheim in loc. cit. 



