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



1. C.Franken]i<msei'i,Mdinn. ^^q tBironBTdmsra 

 Catops Frankenhauseri, Mann. Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. l85^,'pt. 2. p! 332'" 



Elongatus, fusco-piceus, griseo-pubes- Fig. 57. 



cens ; antennis pectinatis, basi ferru- 



gineis, articulo ultimo pyriformi apice 



acuminato ; thorace quadrato, angulis 



rotundatis, obsolete canaliculato, pos- 



tice in medio impresso ; elytris ob- 



longo-ellipticis, subtilissime punctu- 



latis, tenue striatis, stria suturali pro- 



fundiore, rufo-testaceis, cinereo-holo- 



sericeis, pilis longis fuscis prasertim 



in margine obsitis; pedibus ferru- 



gineo-piceis. 

 Long. 2i-3 lin., lat. 1^-11 lin. 



Elongate, having a good deal the form of the first group 

 (subg. Choleva) of the genus Catops : fuscous, clothed with a 

 griseous pubescence. Antennae pectinated, black, ferruginous at 

 the base ; the first three joints slender ; third longer than second ; 

 fourth to tenth each of nearly equal length, globose, with a long 

 spine proceeding outwards. Thorax quadrate, angles rounded, 

 obsoletely canaliculated, impressed behind in the middle. Elytra 

 oblong-elliptic, very finely punctulated, feebly striated, the sutu- 

 ral stria deeper, rufo-testaceous, with a cinereous bloom and 

 clothed with long brown hairs, especially on the margin ; legs 

 dark ferruginous. c q bflg 



Inhabits the island of Sitka. Several specimens were taken' "^ 

 by M. Frankenhseuser in a human body lying in a wood, and in 

 putrid fungi. -'i iJi-fi 



I owe the above figure to Dr. Leconte. /Iqdal) jg 



Genus Catopsimorphus, Aube. ^ .'-.uom-nu-n^ 

 Catopsimorphus, Aube, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2 ser. yd\. viii. p. 324. 



" Antennje with eleven joints, very much flattened ; the eighth 

 not narrower and scarcely shorter than the seventh and ninth. 

 Epistome cut almost straight. Labrum broadly and deeply 

 emarginate, and provided in front with a small very slender 

 membrane, strongly emarginate in the middle and ciliated in the 

 emargination. Mandibles denticulated at the extremity and fur- 

 nished within with a ciliated membrane. Maxillae with the 

 internal lobe terminated by a small hook ; the external lobe 

 obtuse and hairy at the extremity. Maxillary palpi with four 

 joints, the first very small, the second slightly clavate, the third 

 obconic, the last conical, a half smaller than the third. Labium 



