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



upper side is moderately densely clothed with golden-yellow 

 pubescence, coarsely granulated; the anterior angles are obtuse, 

 sloping downwards ; the almost pointed posterior angles pro- 

 ject pretty strongly backwards embracing the elytra, so that the 

 posterior margin appears to be strongly sinuated on both sides 

 near the elytra. The elytra are oval, strongly narrowed from 

 the middle towards the apex, each tolerably sharply acuminated, 

 moderately densely and finely pubescent, and deeply transversely 

 strigose, with distinct traces of longitudinal strise. Under side 

 and legs reddish-brown. 



Kraatz says it is of a reddish colour, but the only specimen I 

 have seen was black. 



Of the form of the C. velox, Spence, approaching most to it, 

 but a little smaller, more acuminate behind, and easily recog- 

 nizable by its keeled mesosternum ; distinguished from the fol- 

 lowing species by its different form and longer antennae; and 

 from C. acicularis, Kraatz, the only other species of the pre- 

 ceding groups which has transversely wrinkled elytra, by its 

 smaller size and shorter and broader form. 



Found in Austria : extremely rare. 



52. C. validus, Kraatz. 

 Catops validus, Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 441. 32. 

 ''Oblongo-ovatus, niger, fusco-sericeus ; antennis rufo-piceis, cla- 

 vatis ; thorace, elytrisque transversim strigosis, apice truncatis. 

 " Long, 2i hn. 



" This distinct species comes near the following in the form 

 of the body, and only deviates from them by its greater size and 

 the different structure of the antennae. I confine myself there- 

 fore to describing the latter more strictly. 



" Antennae reddish-brown ; first joint at least twice as long 

 and half as strong again as the second, somewhat more slender 

 at the base; second very small, at the end nearly as broad as 

 long, somewhat more slender at the base ; ihird at least three 

 times as long as second, for the last third part becoming gradually 

 somewhat broader ; fourth equal in length to second, but some- 

 what broader ; fifth equal to fourth ; sixth somewhat shorter and 

 broader than the eighth ; seventh somewhat shoi'ter, but just as 

 broad as the ninth; eleventh distinctly more slender and half as 

 long again as tenth ; from the base to the apex conical acumi- 

 nate, somewhat paler at the tip. Agreeing in other respects 

 with the following species. 



"Two examples from Stentz in Hungary are in the Royal 

 Museum, under the name of C. validus"^" 



* Kraatz in loc. cit. 



