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Mr. A. Murray's Monograph of the genus Catops. 461 



the body. The thorax forms a continuous or nearly continuous 

 line with the elytra; its posterior angles do not project behind; 

 both thorax and elytra are seen under a powerful lens to be very 

 finely though distinctly transversely strigose. The elytra are not 

 truncate, although they are rounded rather rapidly at the apex. 

 The scutellum is not visible. The sutural stria is distinct at the 

 base, but it draws closer to the suture as it proceeds to the apex, 

 and is lost before it reaches it. Under side and legs ferruginous- 

 brown. 



From Caraccas. I received this species from M. Deyrolle, 

 under the manuscript name of eequinoctialis ; but the advantage 

 of having a name bearing reference to some particular character, 

 when that can be had, is so obvious, that I am sure that that ex- 

 cellent entomologist will excuse my not adopting the name he 

 had destined for it. ^ 



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..^P.nrrr lUrUu\^ r ^3. C. aUStvallS, Erichs. 



Catops australiSi Erichson, Wiegm. Arch. (1842) p. 243. 



Mesosterno carinato, niger, nigro-pubescens ; thorace Fig. 56. 'i^ 



elytrisque transversim strigosis. 

 Long. 1^ lin. 



Oval, lightly convex, black, with black pubescence. 

 Antennae of the length of the head and thorax, the 

 apex slightly thickened, the eighth joint narrower 

 than those next it, black, piceous at the base. Thorax 

 about the same breadth as the elytra, with the sides 

 lightly rounded, the posterior angles slightly projecting obliquely 

 behind, nearly right-angled ; the base subsinuate on each side, 

 finely transversely strigose. Elytra transversely feebly strigose, 

 the strigations rather widely separated, impressed with a sutural 

 stria, rounded at the apex. Legs concolorous, tarsi piceous, the 

 anterior lightly dilated at the base in the males. Mesosternum 

 slightly keeled. 



This species seems to come between strigosus, Kraatz, and 

 sericeus. 



It is found in Tasmania, and is the only species yet recorded 



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^d:^fna sdi hbiIj laiioda ifiiiiBi gi i{jn3V9a adi ; dian'^oa adi oi qa 



Genus Catoptric Hus, mihi. d^ modulo bus 



Antennae of eleven joints, the last eight of whicli are strongly'' 

 serrated in the males, somewhat less so in the females ; the three 

 first are slender; the eighth joint is very slightly, if at all, nar- 

 rower or shorter than those on each side of it. In other respects 

 the characters do not differ from those of Catops. 



